Helibactor
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I lost appetite high upper stomach pain lost weight was sent as red flag alert for stomach cancer to get camera down it showed up 3 ulcers around the dueduom was treated with triple therapy for helibactor plus stomach tab
Now on omprezole 40 mg a day for 3 months still having pain and taste in mouth eating better
I eat healthy but my question is how do they know it was helibactor as I also was on anti inflammatories for 9 years for osteo arthritis which I am no longer allowed doctor said I will be on stomach tablet for life so where do I go from here
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derek58875 saoirse41
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Hi
Whilst anti inflammatories themselves can cause gastric ulcers, in your case an endoscopy would include a biopsy and that would indicate the presence of h.pylori.
If you are cured of h.pylori there would seem to be no reason for you to be on stomach tablets for life. That is assuming you are not continuing to take anti inflammatories.
You do not say that you were checked after your h.pylori treatment to make sure that treatment eradicated the problem. This would be usually confirmed by a breath test.
In my own case even after h.pylori was cleared, I continued to suffer from some pain for a time until the ulcers were healed. And incidentally the Doctor was reluctant to give me the all clear by giving me a Breath Test - until I insisted.
PPI's such as Omeprazole are great but should not be taken in the long term
saoirse41 derek58875
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When I got camera down they sId they didn't do biopsy
It's now 10 weeks since treatment thankyou for your reply
derek58875 saoirse41
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I don't understand why they would treat you for h.pylori if they didn't know that you had it.
But perhaps that's not the point.
The real issue is whether the therapy worked (it doesn't always), and you would have had to have a post therapy Breath Test to find out.