anti-acid medication advice please

[emergingbutterfly]

As I understand it, and I could be wrong, the reason we take these is to settle the gastric juices in the stomach, the part that we don't use. As our stomach makes these acid juices to break down food that it is expecting to digest. But as we know, we don't provide the food to that part of the stomach, and if we don't take a PPI of somekind (and they are all pretty much the same, lansoprazole, omeprazole etc) then those acidic juices will damage the stomach lining. We really should be taking them, even when it doesn't feel like we need them, as they are doing good as a preventative.

I personally can tell when I haven't taken it, as by the end of the day my stomach is gurgling and burning a bit, like I have had a bit too much spicy chilli.

Very informatative...thank you

 

[emergingbutterfly]

Your mostly right and a little bit wrong - everything you say is correct, except the stomach can handle the gastric juices and enzymes created for the break down of food ok without actually having food in there, thats pretty much what its designed for really, except with no food going in there it doesn't like it and we tend to feel nausias and as your rightly say have the tummy grumbles.

Longerterm the old stomach adjusts and it settles down, this is why post 2 years most people come of the drugs completely as they no longer need them.

We should be taking them as thats what our specialist teams tell us to do and why suffer if you dont have to !

Thanks for your post on this. It has helped me understand that I need to be on these and will email the hospital today and try and get an answer as to why they did not think I should be on them.

 

[Fat Again]

I don't take my fast tabs, their nasty, ain't taken one since about 2 weeks after op - thats a smacked backside for me then !