feeling poorly on omeprazole

Hi Dean.

i was on lansoprozol for 5 years, for acid reflux  They worked fine for most of the time, but always had tummy troubles with them.

Then about a year ago, I was having chest pains, anxiety blood pressure issues, the gp told me to up my dose and take gaviscon, it worked for a couple of months and all the symptoms came back. I was put on beta blockers to help with rapid heartbeat, they made me feel worse and I was fainting, because they slowed my heart rate down to much. By this time I was so scared and anxiety depression kicked in I asked to be put on antidepressants because I'd had enough. I also went cold turkey on the lansoprozol, which you should taper I know now, I had a rough time with the withdrawal and looked into changing my diet keeping off all the trigger foods, and bought manuka honey, I now only have gaviscon as and when I need it. Blood pressure is back to normal 

I'm not saying come off them, but just telling you my story.

i really do hope you get sorted 

good luck 

hi there thank you very much for reply .

I am.having a bad time .always have a bad stomach . constant pain .bloated feel sick .never ends .fatigue always feel drained .I am currently on citalopram for anxiety aswell at the minute as I wanted to try switch my omeprazole to.nexium but you can not take nexium with citalopram .so I don't no what other alternative medication I can take for Barretts but I do not want to stay on omeprazole for much longer .

thanks

dean