Lots of pain (heartburn) but upper gi looked good
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Need some advice English friends!
I had an upper gi done today after experiencing 2 weeks of non stop heart brib that kills. Keeps me up all night. Well, the scope came out clear. Awesome but no answers except that I have lots of stomach acid. She ended up suctioning it out. The next series of tests now will be done on the stomach and the over production of acid. Does anyone have this problem and what do u do for it? I don't really want to start a ppi if my esophagus looks good.
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Barretts karen86868
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The best way to reduce over-production of stomach acid is to inhibit the production of proton pumps. The best way of doing this is with a proton pump inhibitor.
rex_44766 Barretts
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Barretts karen86868
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The stomach can fight to produce sufficient acid if insufficient proton pumps can be created. This can lead to sustained effort to produce more acid.
If you do take high dose and wish to stop, it just requires gradual reduction of dose and frequency over a week or so and helped by substituting H2 blockers if necessary.
sirivinay1786 karen86868
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I thought so too when I first started taking PPI. But, let me tell you that they helped me heal and I was able to get off of them successfully!
If you are worried, try Zantac or similar ones. Those are milder than PPI and not as difficult to get off of.
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