Anybody dealt with it? How?
I went to doc thinking I have an ulcer... Don't take nsaids and negative test for h. Pylori so his official diagnosis is gastritis. Sent me home with scripts for a proton pump inhibitor to reduce acid, and something else to protect my stomach lining, like pepto bismol but "better".
Start reading up on PPIs and some of the side effects are nasty. Things like lupus and dementia. Haven't started taking it yet. I know most of those are long term stuff and he expects me to only need it for a few weeks, but guess what... Coming off has rebound effects which causes many to be stuck on them for much longer than expected.
Think I'm gonna ask him to prescribe an H2 receptor antagonist instead, but hate doing that sort of thing because it feels like telling him how to do the job he went to school for 7 years to learn how to do, and I didn't. Otherwise I'm reading up on how to come at this naturally.
I went to doc thinking I have an ulcer... Don't take nsaids and negative test for h. Pylori so his official diagnosis is gastritis. Sent me home with scripts for a proton pump inhibitor to reduce acid, and something else to protect my stomach lining, like pepto bismol but "better".
Start reading up on PPIs and some of the side effects are nasty. Things like lupus and dementia. Haven't started taking it yet. I know most of those are long term stuff and he expects me to only need it for a few weeks, but guess what... Coming off has rebound effects which causes many to be stuck on them for much longer than expected.
Think I'm gonna ask him to prescribe an H2 receptor antagonist instead, but hate doing that sort of thing because it feels like telling him how to do the job he went to school for 7 years to learn how to do, and I didn't. Otherwise I'm reading up on how to come at this naturally.