Alternative to Lansoprazrole?

He he, its the old story, our doctors just rely on what their book says or what they read on the www.   The acid is probably giving you gout or similar issues and you need Lansoprazole ​to cut the acid in the blood.   I was given these and found an alternative.   You need more alkaline in your diet.   What's the cheapest form of alkaline you can get anywhere - milk.   Drink a pint a day and your acid will drop very quickly and forget the pills.   Mother nature knows best.   My senior hospital consultant actually agreed with me and I go to a major hospital Trust in central London.   Try it for a week and Ibet your acid levels drop significantly.   It stops my gout in its tracks.   Good luck, John

First of all, you'd have thought your GP would have checked on that before it was prescribed! I am really losing all faith in doctors.

If it was me I would be finding another way to combat the acid reflux not because of the statin, but because Lansoprazole and similar meds do you no good anyway.

Why the statin? I won't go against medical advice, but I would investigate this more.

My OH was presribed statins - they made him feel awful. He stopped taking them, changed his diet (reducing sugar, simple carbs like bread and pasta, eating MORE (good) fats and vegetables.) He feels better and his cholesterol has dropped. No nasty side effects.

In my experience most doctors look at the side effects of a single drug, not hen one is taken with two or three other drugs and what the side effects of all taken together.   Milk works for me and acid issues are far below your ph of 6.6, 7 is even.   Whatever your thoughts milk will bring your acid levels nearer the norm and I believe the norm is aroung 6 - 6.5 ph for a human being.   All I am saying is milk is better for you than any drugs but go for organic because you can as there are less drugs put in the cow in their food.

Hello,

​I drink milk now most days, perhaps just a glass full or a tea cup full.   If I feel gout coming on I drink around a pint a day and usually within a few days the pain subsides and eventually goes.   You could have cereals like porrage for breakfast e.g. Sainsbury do a good organic porrage and their organic milk would be good but any cereal with plenty of milk for breakfast would be helpful then drink some milk later if you feel a little acidic pain coming on.   It usually takes two or three days if you catch it early enough but keep drnking the milk for a few days after the pain goes.   Also try and cut down on foods that give you acid indegestion or foods that ar acidic in themselves e.g. vinegar, tomatoes, some fruit.   As the doctors say all things in moderation.   Good luck, John

I was on daily Omeprazole for years, I went on a low carb high fat diet, I bought the book New Atkins for a New You and read it right through.  One of the things it said was this diet cured GERD (that's what you are on the Proton Pump Inhibitor for) and also lowered blood pressure. (I was also on blood pressure medication, Ramipril and another one, can't remember it's name.  I didn't believe it at all, but started the diet to lose weight.  Within a month my reflux had disappeared so I started to cut out the Omeprazole, it never returned, I finished taking the Omeprazole altogether, then my blood pressure went down to below normal and I came off both BP meds - and all of this was before I had lost a huge amount of weight!  Since then I have become very knowledgable about this diet, participating in many online discussion groups and this is a very common experience.  Long term, Proton Pump Inhibitors are known to be harmful to health, they increase your susceptibility to C Diff and have other undesirable effects.