Helicobacter Forums

Hey, it's been about 6-7 months of symptoms. I have been incredibly stressed during this whole process and I can be an anxious person, especially over my stomach.

H. P. was eradicated on my first round of antibiotics about 6 weeks ago and I'm still having symptoms: gas, bloating, abdominal pain (sometimes upper burning, sometimes below belly button), sometimes nausea, and the biggest concern consistently light brown or medium brown stools that seem to be smooth, sometimes loose, with undigested food or fats in them.

I'm on day 6 of Prilosec and that has been helping a lot but yesterday and today seem to be worse.

Upper Endoscopy came back perfect showing only slight inflammation in esophagus. Dr. thinks might be IBS, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, or Inflammed Colon. Looked them up and the last two don't seem like what I have at all. I may get a Colonoscopy.

I'm thinking this is either Irritable Bowel Syndrome or my body still messed up over the H. Pylori. Either one, I strongly believe this will eventually go away.

Thoughts?


Jesse

Have you consider changing your diet? I would try gluten free for a while and see if helps.

I'm on day 6 of Prilosec and that has been helping a lot but yesterday and today seem to be worse.

There will be up and downs. concentrate in finishing the tablets. Then wait one months for check up.

Try pro-biotic pills.

I stopped taking Prilosec as it didn't seem to be doing much for me after awhile. I noticed when I felt the best it was after a STRICT diet of simply bananas, apples, oatmeal, and yogurt for about 2 days. But that's not a way to live. My stomach felt pretty good but my body was feeling of shutting down. What's a safe way to build up from that? Can I go a week like that?

What's the relation of IBS to H Pylori?

I'm thinking of going to a therapist about this.

What's the relation of IBS to H Pylori?
This is a very complex question. The truth is, I dont think anyone really knows how H. pylori affect the microbiome in your intestine. What you eat will definitely affect your microbiome. But since everyone has a different microbiome, it is almost impossible to come up with one solution that fix everybody.