lansoprazole stopped working now i feel ill
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Hi, I've been on 15mg lansoprazole once a day for years, then a couple of years ago I started getting the feeling that there was a lump moving up inside my chest to my throat then back down again... just as if you were going to burp, but it wouldn't come out. It was constant, just as the feeling went down my throat it would come back up again. My GP increased my dose to 30mg once a day, and things settled down. On the 31st August this year, i suffered the worst case of reflux during the night that i have ever had, acid burning through my stomach and up into my throat. I went back to my GP who again upped my dose to 30mg morning and 30mg at night, but this awful up and down feeling in my gullet persisted continually for a full 12 days, I stayed on a bland fat free diet, and yesterday for the first time felt much better. I celebrated with half a tiny peice of pork sasauge.... disaster !!!! felt so ill with reflux within half an hour of eating. I am now so scared and worried that I may have cancer or some other reason for this awful condidtion. WHY would lansoprazole suddenly stop working ? Today i feel awful, not hungry, burning stomach, feel sick and still have reflux... any advice please. thank you
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Lovelane09 sharon_howe
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now I'm great so please don't worry you have cancer, you have gerd and reflux. You meed a gastroscopy first and foremost then take it from there, ots a long road but certainly worth the journey
sharon_howe Lovelane09
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I am back to the GP on Monday I will ask about this... again thank you x
Lovelane09 sharon_howe
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irina78724 Lovelane09
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Lovelane09 irina78724
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And not reversible
There are not too many hospitals that do it. If yiy need any more info please inbox me
Elle1234 sharon_howe
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Please do not despair. Anxiety makes it worse.
I am not a doctor but i do not think it is cancer. It seems that when you were on the bland diet all seems well. Keep on with the bland diet Sharon.
I have stopped the PPI because it was making me very very tired and I have to work full time.
I think our body is telling is we need to heal. I am taking aloe vera sipping it day and night. And I am starting manuka honey a little teaspoon day and night.
Unlike you, I do not have burning. Just mucus
Stuck in throat and blocked ears. So much so it
Is giving me the dizzy spells...
We fight through this Sharon 😄😄😄 don't despair. Some days I cry. Some days I just curl up
Into a ball ...
sharon_howe Elle1234
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Lovelane09 sharon_howe
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Lovelane09
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sharon_howe Lovelane09
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derek76 sharon_howe
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I started with Omeprazole (Losec), then Lansoprazole (Zoton) followed by Pantoprazole (Protium). When each ceased to be effective my symptoms worsened each time.
I then went back to Lansoprazile for a while before regressing and prescribed Esomeprazole (Nexium). That seems to be the one that suits me and I've been taking it for over eight years.
Elle1234 sharon_howe
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If you would like to chat I can send you my
Email address but I am not sure how to do
This privately. I figure it out 😄
sharon_howe Elle1234
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Elle1234 sharon_howe
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I have sent you a private message I hope you get it if you want to chat. X.
irina78724 sharon_howe
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I had the same situation. I have been taking omeprazol for one and a half year. All was fine, never had reflux and then after one trip to a restaurant got all at once- feeling sick, pain all over my stomach, caughing at night, something was coming up to my throat. I put myself on a strict diet and in a week all symptoms became better but reflux getting worse and worse. I do not know how to live with that. Maybe you need to change medication and try something different? I am trying different medications but so far it is all the same. Yes, I have heard about surgery many times and it helps.
We should look forward to it.