do you take a Proton Pump Inhibitor?
omeprazole (prilosec)
esomeprazole (nexium)
dexlansoprazole (dexilant)
lansoprazole (prevacid)
your doctor has almost certainly not told you that it causes significant calcium and magnesium deficiencies.
and can also cause very hard-to-diagnose kidney-related issues.
primary care physicians basically do not believe these side effects exist. i went to three PCPs before i was able to get a referral to a GI specialist.
after eighteen months of having doctors gaslight me, the first GI specialist i saw told me "oh yeah, i see a dozen patients a week with the same symptoms. we really try not to prescribe PPIs any more."
your over-the-counter alternatives are mostly H2 antagonists: famotidine and cimetadine. i got about 6-10 hours of relief from the first and 10-12 hours of relief from the latter. nizatidine works a little better, though it requires a prescription.
diet and habit changes can help, but if you're a chronic illness person, you've already tried every elimination diet and every single medication you can get your hands on.
if none of these work, there are next steps. GI imaging, endoscopies, sucralfate, misoprostol, and possibly surgery.
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the medical system does not move quickly and even so, i would be amazed if any of these drugs are still on the market in twenty years.
check it out your self. please!
most antacids are either allergy medications (H2s) or derived from them (PPIs). check out ranitidine (zantac), which is no longer sold because it decomposes into a carcinogen. or lavoltidine which didn't even make it to market because it was tumor-causing, or niperotidine because it caused liver damage, or sufotidine which also caused carcinoid tumors.
oh and hey, a 2022 meta analysis links PPIs to increased risks of gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, and liver cancer.
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for real, i've spent three years trying to track down these symptoms and it took more than a year to even consider the fact that an over-the-counter medication could cause so many problems.
oh and while we're at it, don't take ibuprofen for basically any reason ever. it does not do good things to your liver or kidneys and i've had multiple surgeons ban taking it within three months of a procedure because it causes so many issues.
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four primary care physicians when i tell them i have significant side effects from PPIs: "what are you talking about, these are perfect, blameless medications sent from heaven!"
two GI specialists in different networks, with a 20 year difference in experience:
"yeah i see a dozen patients with your exact symptoms a week. we basically do not recommend PPIs any more because they destroy your bones, wash magnesium out of your body, cause UTIs, muscle, and perineal pain."
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wish me luck, this has taken more than two years of fighting eight doctors to get
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this whole account is sort of a wiki for me, so maybe this helps people and maybe it's useful as reference for me, probably both
about 10hrs in on my first dose and so far so good
it's too early to tell if this won't cause the same joint and muscle issues, but my vision already seems to be better. ordinarily i'd be laying in bed with my eyes closed a few hours ago.
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it's only been a few days, so i am very, very mindful about both placebo effect and not letting hope get the best of me
so far:
almost all of my shoulder/clavicle pain has gone away
i can use my eyes for more than an hour or two at a time
the pain in my hands and hips seems noticeably better
i am no longer so nauseated in the morning that i dry-heave for 5-15 minutes
my bp is down 10-20 points
my heart rate is down 10-30 points
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can you imagine? if i get to be around for another 30-50 feral years, i could make so many fanciful, needless, beautiful things. i could say so much more dumb shit, i could play so much more grabass with my friends on here.
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