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| cosmo 2005-10-26, 11:18 am |
| I have had heartburn on and off (mainly off) for about 4 years. This
time around (or 3rd time in these 4 years), it did not go away in 2
months as before, but got progressively worse. It began as a
consequence of stress, but really I have not been stressed lately that
much except worried about my stomach condition. Now I have been having
nausea, headaches (nothing completely unbearable but very
discomforting), constant gases, bloating for 2 weeks and progressively
less and less food gets digested - now can only do liquids. What makes
me worried is my family genes - my mother has got most of stomach and
"related to stomach" diseases (had kidney stones, hernia, heartburn,
she can barely eat anything as well). While I'm only 29 and for my
mother all these started after 45, I am getting quite a bit concerned.
Does anyone have any idea of what to do? If you know a good stomach
doctor in London, that would be great as well! Any help is greatly
appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
Alla
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Hi Cosmo,
You do not say whether you are on any other medication apart from PPIs, but
some meds, such as nexium, can cause
gastrooesophagal reflux disease (GERD - this is reversible once the
medication is tapered down) see www.rxlist.com for side-effects and
www.drugs.com for drug interactions.
Perhaps, you have developed resistance to your current PPI. I am currently
on a 20
mg maintenance dose of the PPI (proton pump inhibitor) pantoprazole (aka
protonix, etc.) after having been on 20-40 mg nexium for 2 years. The beauty
of nexium is that one can make a sludge of it in water and get almost
instant relief if required. However, I experience more side-effects with
nexium (headaches, sun sensitivity, metallic taste in mouth, general
malaise). I have been on PPIs since Feb. 2003 with doses of between 20 and
80
mg daily with 20 mg as the maintenance dose and only having resorted
to 80 mg (40 mg an hour before breakfast and 40 mg an hour before dinner) a
handfull of times when things were intolerable.
I experienced severe GERD up until Feb. this year when I had a 5 hour
operation to remove adhesions, which had caused virtual stasis of my stomach
and intestine and a further 1.25 hours to remove 30 cm dying (reduced blood
circulation and 'inactive' Crohn's) intestine.
I refer you to this article, which recommends life-style changes for the
management of GERD http://www.gicare.com/pated/ecdgs39.htm and another that
discusses GERD in far greater detail
http://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc85.html . I also
found that cutting milk out of my diet helped me tremendously. I sleep
slightly elevated (8 inches) with a thin mattress raised at the head end
with a large cheese shaped wedge of hard foam underneath. With this I also
notched up several points on the feeling good scale. Discuss with your doc.
Are you drinking enough? Try drinking at least 2 litres fruit tea/mineral
water (no tea, coffee, cola, sugary drinks) and see what effect that has on
your headaches and bloating (constipation?). Going vegetarian is also said
to help reduce the symptoms of GERD.
I have maldigestion/malabsorbtion due to short bowel syndrome (several
intestine ops.) and Crohn's disease and have been prescribed pancreatine,
which I take with my meals. It is better for me in granular form mixed with
my food than in the capsule form. This increases digestion of the food. A
liquid diet sounds very extreme to me. I need to puree virtually everything,
but I have an ileostoma stenosis and a further stenosis at the resection
site where they removed the dying intestine earlier this year. It sounds to
me as if you need to get to a doctor without delay.
All the best,
Vanny
"cosmo" <allina1@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1130181930.681038.208110@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
I have had heartburn on and off (mainly off) for about 4 years. This
time around (or 3rd time in these 4 years), it did not go away in 2
months as before, but got progressively worse. It began as a
consequence of stress, but really I have not been stressed lately that
much except worried about my stomach condition. Now I have been having
nausea, headaches (nothing completely unbearable but very
discomforting), constant gases, bloating for 2 weeks and progressively
less and less food gets digested - now can only do liquids. What makes
me worried is my family genes - my mother has got most of stomach and
"related to stomach" diseases (had kidney stones, hernia, heartburn,
she can barely eat anything as well). While I'm only 29 and for my
mother all these started after 45, I am getting quite a bit concerned.
Does anyone have any idea of what to do? If you know a good stomach
doctor in London, that would be great as well! Any help is greatly
appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
Alla
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| Alla-
I took protonix first, then prevacid for a 2-3 month period and had
symptoms similar to yours; nausea, headaches, fatigue, bloating,
stomach cramps, diarrhea, inability to keep food down. I generally
felt like shit all the time. These symptoms significantly improved
after I stopped the PPI's. It took about 8-10 days to begin feeling
better, and I noticed that my hearburn spiked for the first few days,
but it slowly began to improve.
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| Vanny 2005-11-22, 10:54 am |
| Sorry, the second sentence should read
"but some meds, such as steroids, can cause
gastrooesophagal reflux disease..."
I think that it was too late to be writing e-mails and I had just got out of
hospital after having been parenterally fed and then ending up with
pseudomonas sepsis and having to have my brain scanned for suspected
meningitis or brain abcesses!
Forgive me.
Vanny
"Vanny" <VannySS2003@antispam.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:dkgke7$m0a$1@newsreader3.netcologne.de...
Hi Cosmo,
You do not say whether you are on any other medication apart from PPIs, but
some meds, such as nexium, can cause
gastrooesophagal reflux disease (GERD - this is reversible once the
medication is tapered down) see www.rxlist.com for side-effects and
www.drugs.com for drug interactions.
Perhaps, you have developed resistance to your current PPI. I am currently
on a 20
mg maintenance dose of the PPI (proton pump inhibitor) pantoprazole (aka
protonix, etc.) after having been on 20-40 mg nexium for 2 years. The beauty
of nexium is that one can make a sludge of it in water and get almost
instant relief if required. However, I experience more side-effects with
nexium (headaches, sun sensitivity, metallic taste in mouth, general
malaise). I have been on PPIs since Feb. 2003 with doses of between 20 and
80
mg daily with 20 mg as the maintenance dose and only having resorted
to 80 mg (40 mg an hour before breakfast and 40 mg an hour before dinner) a
handfull of times when things were intolerable.
I experienced severe GERD up until Feb. this year when I had a 5 hour
operation to remove adhesions, which had caused virtual stasis of my stomach
and intestine and a further 1.25 hours to remove 30 cm dying (reduced blood
circulation and 'inactive' Crohn's) intestine.
I refer you to this article, which recommends life-style changes for the
management of GERD http://www.gicare.com/pated/ecdgs39.htm and another that
discusses GERD in far greater detail
http://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc85.html . I also
found that cutting milk out of my diet helped me tremendously. I sleep
slightly elevated (8 inches) with a thin mattress raised at the head end
with a large cheese shaped wedge of hard foam underneath. With this I also
notched up several points on the feeling good scale. Discuss with your doc.
Are you drinking enough? Try drinking at least 2 litres fruit tea/mineral
water (no tea, coffee, cola, sugary drinks) and see what effect that has on
your headaches and bloating (constipation?). Going vegetarian is also said
to help reduce the symptoms of GERD.
I have maldigestion/malabsorbtion due to short bowel syndrome (several
intestine ops.) and Crohn's disease and have been prescribed pancreatine,
which I take with my meals. It is better for me in granular form mixed with
my food than in the capsule form. This increases digestion of the food. A
liquid diet sounds very extreme to me. I need to puree virtually everything,
but I have an ileostoma stenosis and a further stenosis at the resection
site where they removed the dying intestine earlier this year. It sounds to
me as if you need to get to a doctor without delay.
All the best,
Vanny
"cosmo" <allina1@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1130181930.681038.208110@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
I have had heartburn on and off (mainly off) for about 4 years. This
time around (or 3rd time in these 4 years), it did not go away in 2
months as before, but got progressively worse. It began as a
consequence of stress, but really I have not been stressed lately that
much except worried about my stomach condition. Now I have been having
nausea, headaches (nothing completely unbearable but very
discomforting), constant gases, bloating for 2 weeks and progressively
less and less food gets digested - now can only do liquids. What makes
me worried is my family genes - my mother has got most of stomach and
"related to stomach" diseases (had kidney stones, hernia, heartburn,
she can barely eat anything as well). While I'm only 29 and for my
mother all these started after 45, I am getting quite a bit concerned.
Does anyone have any idea of what to do? If you know a good stomach
doctor in London, that would be great as well! Any help is greatly
appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
Alla
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