PPI CAUTION
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:11 am
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 948.x/full
For those of us suffering the post-Helicobacter Pylori damage, read the above article.
From doing a simple 2 week eradication therapy for H. Pylori will mess up your stomachs ability to produce stomach acid at a normal rate for most people for around 7 months.
Some even have irreversible damage done to them as their acid levels didn't change between 3-5 years after treatment.
I was on PPI's for 1.5 months after H. Pylori infection, and I got WORSE. I couldn't eat for up to 3 days at a time. I stopped taking the PPI and after about 5 days I started feeling normal again (by normal, I mean less sick lol).
Just a caution to everyone who are on PPI's.
I was feeling pretty good until one weekend I had probably eaten something that caused my inflammation to cause me a bit of pain for a couple of days, and then my doc prescribed me PPI's... It was good for about a week, then I started getting worse. It got worse in fact due to the PPIs. Most of my symptoms went away 4-5 days after stopping my PPI medication.
(Note: I tried two different types of PPIs because I thought the first one wasn't fixing my issue. Nexium and Pariet [aciphex]).
Turns out being on PPIs can cause symtoms of Functional Dyspepsia and/or delayed gastric emptying, causing early satiety (early fullness) when eating.
For those of us suffering the post-Helicobacter Pylori damage, read the above article.
From doing a simple 2 week eradication therapy for H. Pylori will mess up your stomachs ability to produce stomach acid at a normal rate for most people for around 7 months.
Some even have irreversible damage done to them as their acid levels didn't change between 3-5 years after treatment.
I was on PPI's for 1.5 months after H. Pylori infection, and I got WORSE. I couldn't eat for up to 3 days at a time. I stopped taking the PPI and after about 5 days I started feeling normal again (by normal, I mean less sick lol).
Just a caution to everyone who are on PPI's.
I was feeling pretty good until one weekend I had probably eaten something that caused my inflammation to cause me a bit of pain for a couple of days, and then my doc prescribed me PPI's... It was good for about a week, then I started getting worse. It got worse in fact due to the PPIs. Most of my symptoms went away 4-5 days after stopping my PPI medication.
(Note: I tried two different types of PPIs because I thought the first one wasn't fixing my issue. Nexium and Pariet [aciphex]).
Turns out being on PPIs can cause symtoms of Functional Dyspepsia and/or delayed gastric emptying, causing early satiety (early fullness) when eating.