I started taking Lansoprazole at the age of 27 and have ...

Hi trying to find some help myself..im 42 and suffered hiatus hernia since early 20s i have barrets also.I had the opp to help with this but was the worse decision i ever made.75 mg daily and still suffering bad.My esophagus now pretrudes outwoulds and alot of the time i look like father xmas the bloating and belching is awful.I just dont know what to do ive been on a diet for 30 years ? I love my food.I smoke but do not drink.The battles im having right now will put me in an early grave and my doctors just prescribe me whatever i havnt found it very helpful.

I hope you have found my posts - they follow your description quite well, but my pain comes at night. 15mg is all I need, but I get 39mg capsules and have half of one a day - to keep the price down. I try wall pressups to shift the 'gas', hopping from one foot to the other and banging my chest. I'm not sure if it works, but doing something helps ! My Step Son had a crippling attack last night too. There is a lot of it about these days.

I had similar symptoms and an endoscopy showed that I had Gerd with some damage to the top of my oesophagus, so I was recommended 15mg daily Lansoprazole for the rest of my life. It helps, but I still have to be careful. My main symptom was severe pain under my sternum after eating during the day, around lunchtime. I eventually found that it could be relieved by burping, and decided that the cause was trapped wind. The lansoprazole (which I take after my evening meal) seems to have cured this, but I often wake up a couple of hours after going to bed with quite severe pain in my right upper thorax. Interestingly, this is usually preceeded by pain in one of my upper right teeth - I and my dentist have no idea why, but it always works as a signal of the onset of the chest pain. I then relieve it by burping as much as I can, and if that fails I chew a simple ant-acid chalk pill. That and walking about a bit always works. I do have an unpleasant metallic or acidic taste in my mouth when I wake up in the morning, which I put down to acid reflux. I always used to eat a lot, without putting on weight, and my consultant blamed this for causing my hiatus hernia and gerd, with some damage evident to the top of my oesophagous. As a consequence I now try not to eat and drink so much, especially late at night; not to go straight to bed after eating but stay upright for as long as possible, and avoid acidic drinks. I have yet to have a follow up endoscopy, but find my symptoms much relieved. I am worried about diverticulitis though - the lansoprazole causes some constipation, a consequence of which was an inguinal hernia, which had to be operated on. I had a net inserted with a keyhole procedure, but now find that if I work too hard (I am a builder) I feel some pain at what I presume are the attachment points of the net. Trouble is this becomes confused with what might be the typical lower left pain of diverticulitis. Life is complicated! Don't eat or drink too much, and try never to get sunburned (I had a melanoma removed 3.5 years ago, after being sunburned many times as as child!) One other thing I find is that if I drive when I am tired, I can burp for England, almost continuously. I am not sure what that is doing for the ozone layer.

The symptoms that has been described are almost identical to the suffering I have insured, it was so bad that nothing worked not even zantact, I literally wanted to die, I found I had to eat every two hours to eleviate the pain, and it was mainly cerials, my x wife did some extensive research and advised me that I may have a disease called:HELICOBACTER PYLORI, I put these findings to my doctor who had never herd if it, so he told me to return in a few days; where he proscribed a concussion of penicillin and anti-bactera drugs to my absolute amazement after over two years of crippling suffering I was ok within 24 hours, I must admit I have my x to thank along wit a doctor who listens, praise be to god.

This post was 12 years ago how are you now because I m getting everything that you have said and worse attacks in the night feeling rubbish and tight chest pains 

Hi, i got put on lansoprazole about ten years ago! Going to get an appointment with my doctor as nobody has ever asked how i was doing on it, it's used for me to counteract the acid reflux caused by a combination of lefluonomide and hydroxychloroquine for my rheumatoid arthritis. Just the last couple of weeks i have had horrendous heartburn all times of the day despite still taking lansoprazole, living on gaviscon at the moment. I also went for a colonoscopy about 3 years ago when i started suffering from severe diarrhoea and a massive bloated stomach and was told they could'nt find anything so they diagnosed me with irritable bowel syndrome, have not been the same since. Like you, i feel like i'm ban ging my head against a brick wall and a lot of time i skip meals because i just don't know what i can eat that won't cause me agony! Frustrating to say the least. I really do believe the lansoprazole aggravates the stomach and makes things worse, it also causes malabsorption of food and you can be lacking in magnesium and important vitamins, and here's a last thought for you, clinical trials were not carried out past a year, so you like me seem to be a human guineapig. I hope this enlightens you a bit and makes you feel like you're not alone, take care, lorraine

hi..i have been taking lanz30mg from last 7 years and doctor who presceibed me told me that its for life..i wasnt concern at the start of it because i was relieved frm what i went through year before but last year i had same problm started again even i was taking lanz30 ..went to GP they sent me for a poo test and had to stop taking lanz30 for 2 weeks and then went for the test everythinh was normal no bacteria found in my stomach then went for endoscopy and the result came back normal...and they prescribed me 2 tab of lanz30 a day instead of 1 ..few weeks i took 2 tabs i was feeling better and then i came across as a shock of tye side efgects of lanz30 and stop taking lanz30 2 tab a day and back to 1...now since last week i was ok as i woke up 1 night at 2am with a burning chest pain going up to throat and face cudnt breath i was like having proper ready to call ambulance buy luckily i burpee quite heavily and relesed the gass as you know and i was better..called tye GP next day explain him eveeything GP was like yoi had eveeything done theres nothing i went then why i still have same problem moreover he was saying this tab is for life we cant do nothing ...if i want he cud sent me foe another test ....

i am same situation like you i feel your pain everytime i eat someyhing i start burping and bloating ...there is burning sensation under tye chest ..theres something i dont feel right in my body.i hate to take lanz30 but if i skip my whole day becomes nightmare ...

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