Please I need your urgent help

[koki1972]

Hello everyone,
first of all I would like to thank all moderators of this forum.
I'm totally new to this forum and would like to know from you how to do with my problem :
I'm suffering because of ulcerated gastritis and the gastroenterologist who performed my gastro-biopsy came with a false-negative result because of non stropping of taking Raberprazole (PPI) before doing this biopsy .
What is important that I'm going to repeat now the gastro-biopsy and culture again to check up the availability of H.Pylori but without PPI for 15 day.
My question is : how can I stop taking PPI before 15 days of performing the biopsy meanwhile I'm suffering because of ulcerated gastritis?
the other question : is there any alternative medication that I could take to stop the painful gastritis during the 15 day before the biopsy?
Please help me to know what to do
Thanking you all

[Helico_expert]

if your ulcer is not too severe, you can take ranitidine during your 15 days wait. talk to your doctor about this option. Otherwise, you'll need to continue PPI a month until your ulcer is healed, then switch to ranitidine for another 2-3 weeks, then book in for endoscopy.

Ranitidine is a type of acid blocker that will not interact with breath/stool test. However, it's acid inhibition is not as good as PPI.

second question:
to avoid false negative, you'll need to stop anything that may interact with the test. do not take aspirin or other NSAID pain killer. they will worsen the ulcer.

[koki1972]

thank you so much Helico_expert for replying me, I'm gonna check with Gastro-enterologist regarding taking Randitine during the 15 days before biopsy and let me hope that it doesn't affect on biopsy result too same as PPI, but the question is : does Randitine also interact with the test biopsy and lead to false-negative result same as PPI ?

[Helico_expert]

Ranitidine only temporary reduce acid secretion. so will not interfere with any test for H. pylori.