Apriori sorry for the long text.
Please help.
I want to ask some advice in here, because the standart way of treating disease by going to a doctor seems useless in my case. See, i live in Russia. So getting adequate medical care is a very complicated thing because either of total incompetence of doctors in public clinics or unjustified and inadequately expensive methods of diagnosis and treatment in private clinics, which are aimed exclusively at "sticking" patient to a particular clinic to suck money from him. And i am a phd student thinking about how to pay rent.
I am 24. First was diagnosed with chronic gastritis when i was 12. Twice a year i experienced constant nausea vithout catually vomiting and that was the only problem. I was tested positive for HP. Doctor prescripted some antibiotics and other pills(i think those were de-nol & omeprazole). But i do not remember exactly. So i once a year did endoscopy and 3 or 4 years in a row received antibiotics and other pills. The problem is that i do not remember what antibiotics those were exactly. Then i felt a little better and from 16 to 21 years old i almost forgot about my gastritis.
But when i turned 21 problems with stomach came back. This time it was not nausea, but apart from standard mild symptoms the biggest problem was abdominal distention, extreme swelling in the stomach, constant flatulence and problems with defecation constantly changing from constipation to diarrhea. Usually 3 times a day or even more and in small quantities. Usually starting after noon right after lunch. So it started causing constant discomfort combining this constant the urge to defecate and flatulence. Usually discomfort and gas is felt in the left bottom part of torso. And feces were more sticky and almost all rainbow colors even had shades of green, red, yellow or almost white. Of cource quality of life has declined sharply. First of all i thougth i was infected with worms from a cat i brought home from the street, which i am by the way allergic to. Stool samples didnt show any. Only blood testing showed antigen, so i took anthelmintic pills, but it didn't help.
When i again went to see a doctor he again perfomed endoscopy and he said that i again had erosive gastritis stomach and duodenum. Again prescribed a lot of medications but it did not reduce sympthoms. Only when i was taking DE-NOL i felt better and sympthoms were almost gone. But when i was giving it up each time flatulence and swelling and defecation problems were coming back again. Now it is difficult to say if i have HP or not. In a short period of time i had 4 biopsies while endoscopy and two of them were positive, two negative. And it is taking into account that i didnt take ANY medications at all in 6 weeks.
I would be very grateful if qualified competent person could give me some advice and answer these questions.
- In Russia breath tests are much less common thing then endoscopy. Wich method is better? Because my doctor acted like breath tests are kind of quackery.
- How long can i take DE-NOL to reduce sympthoms. Do a have to make 2 month breaks after each 8 weeks of therapy because of accumulation of bismuth?
- What antibiotics are best for quadriple therapy in my situation? What should i take with omeprazole & de-nol? Taking into account that i may be resistant to a lot of antibiotics, because i do not remember what i was taking when i was 12-16. And i also took some strong antibiotics becaue of other diseases: Lyme borreliosis, furunculosis, urological inflammations. Again i do not remember what antibiotics exactly i took, but among them there were tetracyclin, Trichopolum, amoksiklav, others... so i might be resistant to a lot of those. I think i should take amoxicyclin because HP cant be resistant to it and what else?
- If i took DE-Nol for 2 weeks, can i start quadriple therapy tomorrow? Or should i wait?
- What are ways to reduce flatulence and swelling besides Simethicone?
Thanks A lot!
Extremely grateful for your help.
Eric
