I'm a 33 year old female. 3 nights ago, I was woken up by intense stomach pains (right in the bottom/center of my ribs) that felt like they were coming in waves lasting about 3-5 seconds. I was eating Gaviscon tablets all night, which helped for about 25 minutes at a time. I have absolutely NO history of stomach issues or even heartburn. I've been taking Prevacid for 2 days and its helping though I still take Gaviscon liquid in the morning and when I go to bed.
Hey guys, posting here again.
I posted a question here on Feb 18th about stomach pains I had. Well these pains are back now. I think it may be an ulcer or inflammation of some kind. The last time I had this problem I got some Omeprazole off my doctor. I finished those and the pains came back last week so I got some more on Tuesday.
Problem is that not it's a lot worse. I haven't ate or slept in 4 nights and I'm now starting to get constipated. Some thing I've never been before!
s twice a day (Prevacid Solutabs, Nexium, Protonix, Prevacid, Zegrid, Kapidex, Aciphex, etc....) and supplemented with Gaviscon or Zantac. I was also on Advair 500/50 and Singulair. My symptoms were a harsh chronic cough and difficulty breathing/severe asthma. Testing (Barium Swallows, Esophagram, Manometries, pH tests) showed my refluxing was extremely severe (getting worse) and that my LES wasn't functioning properly.
I don't know if you have anything similar in the US but I use a medicine called Gaviscon here, it's a dual medicine that work on your acid reflux and indigestion.
I believe I did hear a piece on the news - a brief bit as news usually goes, that some of the PPIs can cause joint problems. Google "side effects of Nexium". I took Nexium for 5 or 6 years and each day was misery with uncontrollable diarrhea, and pain. I am almost certain that there is a connection. It has many side effects, but I no longer have my pharmacy print-out of the side effects listed. My doctor told me Prevacid would not cause severe colitis, but it did.
My daughter also takes pentasa and WAS taking prevacid. The prevacid didn't seem to help her and our GI switched her to prilosec. My daughter has had no complaints with the prilosec. Both prevacid and prilosec have the same actions so they do the same things. The only interaction that I know of with prevacid and penicillin is with a type of penicillin called Ampicillin and it may inhibit the absorption of the prevacid.
I've had heartburn in my sleep every time for the passed 3 nights. I don't know what to do. I mean it goes away after a while I just don't want to rely on runs. So I've been drinking milk and laying on my left side but is there anyway I can prevent it before it happens?! It's been keeping me up and it's so obnoxious. My baby better be born with a full head of hair!
Thanks so much for your response. I've not tried doing 80 mg every other day or every third day. That sounds like a reasonable idea. I have been using Maalox (which gives me diarrhea) and now Pepcid complete. Not helping at all. I have an appt. with my GI doc on Monday afternoon. I've tried Protonix and Prevacid and neither worked. Maybe its time for Aciphex and we'll see how I do.
t moving very much so it scared me a lot so I stopped taking it in the baby back to moving again. I take tums my things and I take baking soda and water I also make sure I go to sleep 4 hours before I Eaten anything nothing seems to help anyone know anything I can do or is it just something I'm just going to keep throwing up and deal with it?
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