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lansoprazole stopped working now i feel ill

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sharon_howe
sharon_howe

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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  • margaret39294
    margaret39294 sharon_howe

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    Have you been checked for Helicobacter PYlori infection? That can play havoc with you too.....I had the breath test and it showed negative but then had a stool test for it and came up positive....2 courses of the triple therapy and some herbs from the naturopath and I was fine.......I had been diagnosed with GERD and anxiety before that but the helicobacter causes those symptoms... IN Australia Healthscope Pathology does the stool test look up CDSA level 4 test
  • margaret39294
    margaret39294 sharon_howe

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    OH I should add David Hompes site on helicobacter is very informative too and he is in the UK....lovely man and answers emails and comments...very helpful and offered to help me long distance if I needed it...worth a try.

     

  • lucia96980
    lucia96980 sharon_howe

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    Hi Sharon, sorry to hear about your problem. I have a similiar sort of problem. I was on meprozole for some time, but my doctor changed my med to esmeprozole 40mg once a day. Wow and what a difference. I have a severe problem apart from acid reflux. If you go to my posts you will see my problem. Anyway get your Dr to change to what I am taking it may help.
  • mo04226
    mo04226 sharon_howe

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    Since being diagnosed recently with eosophogitus I had no other symptoms other than swallowing difficulties. I have read loads of stuff to make sure I am informed so not to make errors in meds, food or drink. From what I can gather . When I come to the end of my months course of Lansoprizole I hope to  come off it slowly to allow the acids to slowly return. Then by eating  a fat free bland diet for a while is useful and possbly replacing bad acid with good acid like apple cider vinegar  and trying to re balance the guts good bacteria with pro biotics, liquorice and pepsin as had be recommended by others both here and on other sites,  and see how that goes . Whether it will work or not I cannot tell yet . But I think its worth a try . I will try and aquire the book by Jamie Kaufman called dropping acid.So allthese things worth a try. Good luck.
  • katie35147
    katie35147 sharon_howe

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    hi sharon

    i realise this is a very old thread bur currently experiencing reflux after being on lansoprazole for 3 weeks, i thought it got better but am experiencing symptoms again. did yours improve?

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