Has anyone taken Ranitidine 150mg?

Thank you Karen before I got to the Drs. I was taking PLJ (lemon Juice) with boiled water cooled down and it really did help along with rennies OTC - it was getting to a stage that I did not want to eat anything (which I know is not good) but I'm back in the running with the right medication.

Thank you Michdonn, if  Omeprazole works for you then I am glad.  There is nothing worse when acid reflux wakes you out of your sleep and the acid is soo bad that you think it is corroding the back of your throat - Omeprazole didn't work for me and I had been on it for over 10years, maybe that was the problem. If it works for you then I'm glad - again we go to the one size fits all theory - we are all different and what works for one may not necessarily work for another.  

I agree about managing your own body and yes they do not know how we feel and what we go through and such a lifestyle change.  As I said earlier I saw a Rheumi once and he wanted a very quick reduction (I opened the letter he gave me to give to my dr.) that's how I knew and he also refused a Dexa Scan.  My life, my body, I will make my own decisions.  I discharged myself from Hospital Rheumy - I reduced my pred MY WAY, of course with all the info that I had gathered on this site from the old timers (not age) more experienced.  This site has been invaluable - and also the same Dr. that I saw on Tuesday recommended this site - I was already using it and told her so.  I could rant all day but I'm not going to waste mental energy that can be used in a more positive way.  I'm off my soapbox now lol.  

Think I will be doing the same as you next week and telling my doctor I will be lowering the pred at my rate not the very fast and PAINFUL way the rheumie wants me to....tried it once before with him,  had so much pain my husband had to lift me out of chair!.......told rheumie of this but says to try again.....WHY?....won`t be bothering to go to next appointment, which has disappointed a couple of my friends that wanted to go with me....to tell him what for!.......

Hi Linda, I am so with you on this.  My own gp trusts me enough and he knows that I can manage my medication.  Tuesday appointment with another dr. in the practice was just a review of my medication (not necessarily pred) but that's where we differed.  

I can only imagine the agony you were in when you reduced and hubby had to lift you out of the chair.  And for a rheumy to tell you "Try Again" give him a wide berth.  I am sick and tired of being a hospital number or a national insurance number - We are human beings with feelings and they are NOT God -  Linda you know your own body best.  Do what is right for you.  You are the one with PMR - Bless You

I am a long ago retired Infants and Special Needs teacher, still very much in touch with the Education world and appalled by current attitudes.

What is it with some of today's Professionals that they feel it is their mission to dictate? Why this one size fits all belief?

Good teachers might know a bit more than some mums and dads about teaching methods; none, if any, will know more about the children than their parents. Let's listen to each other.

Ditto doctors. Some do and I've been lucky with mine. We deserve better than to be treated by dictators and if you are bullied then do your best to  find someone more enlightened.

Oh Betty you speak so eloquently and it is so true about listening and respecting one another.  I don't suffer fools gladly whether they are professionals or not.  There is no one above or below me - but when someone doesn't respect me - I take a step back and process and then I may or may not write a letter of complaint.  

I have had differences of opinion over the years and have stated to so called professionals - the only differance between you and I is that we have different letters after our names.  They are dealing with the wrong person, well depending on what mood I am in or rub me up the wrong way.  

I am a very laid back person and it takes a lot to rile me.  I do give people the benefit of the doubt but am learning not to.  It's such a different world now - and we need to get with the programme as the saying goes.  

I am seeing the nurse tomorrow to get my bloods done and I was going to photocopy a study that Eileen mentioned in her post to me. I was going to print a copy and address it to the dr. that I seen on Tuesday - have decided against it.  The dr. is so not worth my time and energy so I am cutting the osygen supply off.  Thanks for your Input Betty.  

Hi Clare and thank you for your message.  I am at present taking the Ranitidine 150mg just once a day (I only got them on Monday) and they seem to be doing the trick.  And yes I have had problems with reflux acid for a very long time, maybe 10 years or more.  I have had every test carried out and this is long before steriods.  Also my steroids are enteric coated except the 1mg and my aspirin that I take every morning is enteric coated.

I am feeling good at present - long may it last Clare.  Good luck to you too.

You can get enteric coated 1mg tablets now (since last August):

"1mg gastro-resistant prednisolone is manufactured by a UK firm, Alliance Pharmaceuticals, under the trade name Deltacortril"

Boots initially claimed not to know about it (strange since the company that owns them makes it) but a bit more footwork found pharmacists who could use their database properly and ordered it.

Always providing the moderator will let this through, this is the link for the datasheet if anyone wants to show it to their doctor/pharmacy.

https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/medicine/31715

Thank you Eileen, I didn't realise that you could get enteric coated 1mg - that's good to know.  At present I'm using old ones - I must look and see if they have passed their expiry date.  I looked the paper up re:Cimmino Ma, Salvarans et al, and read it and I had a lightbulb moment - I did not print it - I mentioned somewhere above - I am cutting off her oxagen supply.  She's not worth my time.

Just back after getting my bloods done - Nurse couldn't talk as she was only out of the Dentist and her mouth was frozen.  I was getting ESR CRP and Cholestral - it's as well I don't have an appeptite.  Nil by mouth for fasting bloods and then I was told by nurse who couldn't talk yet did talk that she didn't do fasting blood instead she did a HBA1c.  I am surrounded by Numties - I could scream and scream - but am going to have  my coffee and a slice of toast instead.  

I wonder if  there is a full moon - it may expain things.  Two Numties in the same week and at the same Drs. - there gotta be something going on.  Thanks again Eileen, yourself and others have kept me sane.  

Now funny you should mention that :

"The Full Moon for June's 2017 will be on the early morning on June 9th in the United States and later in the afternoon for Europe. The New Moon will fall later in the month on June 24th."

LOL Full Moon or New Moon must have something to do with it.  I don't need any more Numties at this present moment in time.  Two in one week is enough.  :-)

They must have been getting in the mood - avoid them like the plague tomorrow!

Yes getting ready for it post haste  -  I'll just leave them to it.

Great Eileen, this will defo be printed out.  Thank You :-) 

Full moon, 60 years ago, I date a nurse we both were working

midnight to 8am. She always said full of moon nights were the

busy nights of the year. And from the stories it is crazy busy in

Lying in hospitals. Who knows what else!

I do believe the moon does affect us.  My grandmother who was born in 1902 (no longer with us) used to say that people go bananas - as a young person many moons (no put intended) ago, I thought it was twaddle until I grew up and understood more.

She also blamed the spraying of crops with pestiside was killing us.  This was a lady who had no education, couldn't read or write (but taught herself to do both).  I believe she wasn't always right, but never far wrong.  She was a trooper and a lovely lovely person.

Both rheumies I have encountered have been numpties....and dictatorial....can`t even give them the excuse of full moon!

​My evil stepfather.....was given that excuse by my mother....(she never did learn,) but sure as hell taught me a lot.....stand up for yourself and never be dictated to if you think you are right.

  My husband who has the most wonderful health, hasn`t had a cold since he was 15 (now 72) says the professionals have letters after their names, surely they must know what they are talking about!.....oh dear....how naive! but then he dosen`t have to deal with them.....(ps my husbands answer to good health........refuse to have it!!) so that`s where we all went wrong!