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unfortunately, blood test only test your infection history, not your current status. your body will carry anti-h. pylori antibody for months or years. So, you shouldnt use blood test to diagnose H. pylori infection after antibiotic treatment.

Hi,

I've never been treated for h pylori before ...

Just had the anti-body blood test, if positive, I should proceed with treatment? (ignoring claim from other GP that it kinda goes dormant)

Negative result for stool test. I told the GP that it could be because I was on Nexium up until the test and he said that Nexium would just reduce the active numbers of the bacteria but it would still show up in the stool test 100%.

He said the blood test is useless because it just means you may ...

Thanks for the prompt response. Yeah, the impression I got from him was that it's unimportant and not to bother with H Pylori.

I was told by the Pathology that Nexium wouldn't manipulate the stool result, I guess I will just stop nexium for 7 days and use the breath test to be sure.

Thanks again

So I've been having some symptoms that led me to consider HP being the source. I asked my GP about it and he said "it isn't an issue as there are millions of people who have it and are asymptomatic, so what about them?"

He said, "what happens if you kiss your wife and get it again?"

And

"It's ...

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