Extremely low stomach acid
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 7:35 am
Hello everyone I am new to this forum, just signed up to this forum in desperation of help and advice for what I call a rare case of H.pylori infection.
It all started 3 months ago when I was having irregular bowel movements, consistency, indigestion and stool colour. I was going crazy my stool colour kept becoming a more yellow colour. So I did a ton of research and came across low stomach acid as being the culprit. I bought some betain HCl pills in hope that it would make things better, With these pills you are supposed to take one and increase till you get a burning sensation in the stomach, I managed to go up to 20 high strength pills with HCL and pepsin, it improved my digestive issues but it was just not a good idea to take so many pills with each meal, and the risk of developing an ulcer.
I knew there was something not right, I did more research and found H.pylori as a suspected cause, so I did a stool sample and tested positive! I took the 7 day triple therapy with AMOX 1g omeprazole 30g and Clarithromycin 500g all twice a day for 7 days. Now before taking the triple therapy i had extremely low stomach acid, so low that I had joint pain and deficiencies and yellow stools.
So I took the triple therapy and from the very first day my stomach started making a gurgling noise, it was actually producing acid day by day, eventually day by day my stool consistency improved and my indigestion symptoms completely vanished and my stool colour changed to brown. My appetite improved day by day and I was eating more since I had no fear of the low stomach acid issue, even my dry skin problem had disappeared overnight and I had not side effects of taking the therapy.
Now I was extremely shocked at this result as ive read many studies stating that acid secretion does not return till about a few weeks or months after treatment, wherease for me the acid secretion started from the second I swallowed the pills.
As soon as I finished the 7 day triple therapy the next 2 days my stool consistency changed and i went back to having indigestion problems (the low stomach acid symptoms).
I’m so frustrated now I do not know what to do, I wish they had given me 14 days instead of 7 days.
So I went back and I tested positive again, they gave me metronidazole 400mg AMOX 1g and lansoprazole 30mg twice a day, but guess what my stomach was not producing acid like it was on this treatment (maybe the first course caused a resistance to the bacteria?) and nothing has improved even though this course is 14 day course, I know for sure that this treatment is not working whatsoever, I seriously feel suicidal at this point since I have lost about 10kg due to my low stomach acid, my mother cries everyday when she looks at me losing all this weight.
What could be going wrong in my case? I have done so much research about parietal stomach cells and how they are affected by H.pylori.
I have done research also on hypochlohydria and Achlohydria and I’m scared I may die from not eating.
( I have 100% no other H.pylori symotoms whatsoever, just the low stomach acid issue)
Please please please if anyone can give some help or advice I will be truly greatful, because I am just losing hope. I have had to leave my job because of this.
Thank you
It all started 3 months ago when I was having irregular bowel movements, consistency, indigestion and stool colour. I was going crazy my stool colour kept becoming a more yellow colour. So I did a ton of research and came across low stomach acid as being the culprit. I bought some betain HCl pills in hope that it would make things better, With these pills you are supposed to take one and increase till you get a burning sensation in the stomach, I managed to go up to 20 high strength pills with HCL and pepsin, it improved my digestive issues but it was just not a good idea to take so many pills with each meal, and the risk of developing an ulcer.
I knew there was something not right, I did more research and found H.pylori as a suspected cause, so I did a stool sample and tested positive! I took the 7 day triple therapy with AMOX 1g omeprazole 30g and Clarithromycin 500g all twice a day for 7 days. Now before taking the triple therapy i had extremely low stomach acid, so low that I had joint pain and deficiencies and yellow stools.
So I took the triple therapy and from the very first day my stomach started making a gurgling noise, it was actually producing acid day by day, eventually day by day my stool consistency improved and my indigestion symptoms completely vanished and my stool colour changed to brown. My appetite improved day by day and I was eating more since I had no fear of the low stomach acid issue, even my dry skin problem had disappeared overnight and I had not side effects of taking the therapy.
Now I was extremely shocked at this result as ive read many studies stating that acid secretion does not return till about a few weeks or months after treatment, wherease for me the acid secretion started from the second I swallowed the pills.
As soon as I finished the 7 day triple therapy the next 2 days my stool consistency changed and i went back to having indigestion problems (the low stomach acid symptoms).
I’m so frustrated now I do not know what to do, I wish they had given me 14 days instead of 7 days.
So I went back and I tested positive again, they gave me metronidazole 400mg AMOX 1g and lansoprazole 30mg twice a day, but guess what my stomach was not producing acid like it was on this treatment (maybe the first course caused a resistance to the bacteria?) and nothing has improved even though this course is 14 day course, I know for sure that this treatment is not working whatsoever, I seriously feel suicidal at this point since I have lost about 10kg due to my low stomach acid, my mother cries everyday when she looks at me losing all this weight.
What could be going wrong in my case? I have done so much research about parietal stomach cells and how they are affected by H.pylori.
I have done research also on hypochlohydria and Achlohydria and I’m scared I may die from not eating.
( I have 100% no other H.pylori symotoms whatsoever, just the low stomach acid issue)
Please please please if anyone can give some help or advice I will be truly greatful, because I am just losing hope. I have had to leave my job because of this.
Thank you