Has anyone used nexium for stomach ulcer or GERD? My anxiety is through the roof right now worrying it's something worse
I have used that. I didnt have any issues with anxiety from it it is a antihistamine but for the gut. I like pepcid better personally. When digestion is awry usually so is anxiety though, it might have nothing to do with the nexium.
Did you feel that it worked?
It takes a lot of time, the pepcid worked too. I used prevacid a long time as well. I think nexium was purple? It didnt work as well for me as the others. But i do know get b12 sublinguals and take one a day under your tongue. These ppis stop it from absorbing in your gut, it all gets managed but it takes time. Diet plays a huge role in GERD. For the ulcers they heal and most drs check for h pylori as well. Bloodtest. It actually writes on the bloodtest diagnosis which is interesting, they have tons of GERD diets on line, lots and lots of water.
Thank you so much can I ask what your symptoms were?
For the ukcers it hurt. I didnt know i had them haha. I was having tightness in my ight upper chest area and went the to doctor and he said heartburn. I went to a gastro they did an endoscopy and they said i had healing ulcers and gerd. It hurts, you bloat, burns a bit, you get shaky if get hungry, for the gerd it was irratating my throat. That i inew. Can feel it. I didnt have the silent type. As i am older now less acid is produced so it gets better.
Oh ok I have slight burning in my belly and nausea and I feel like I burp a little more. But I don't feel anything in my throat except twice yesterday when I burped a little came up. Idk if that's from the same thing. The dr dibs one blood work and then gave me the nexium and told me to take it for two weeks and if it's an ulcer it should heal it
Hi Emily. Bless you. My anxiety is through the roof too
What is nexium?
Then do as he says and change your diet. Something is knawing at your lining. Diet is a very big factor in GERD. Lots and lots of water..you want to wash down acid and reflux.
It is a drug commonly used to treat acid reflux and stomach ulcers
No do you feel you need something for your tummy or are you just bunged up after christmas. You may have just eaten to much ?.
BOB
No it's been going on since before Christmas
Have you been prescribed them ?.
BOB
Yes I was given nexium
Take your medication and good Luck
BOB
Have you had a gastroscopy?
No just some blood work that hasn't come back yet
I've had all the tests for ulcers and reflux including the scope and despite the gnawing feeling, all tests have come back normal. The dr has suggested that maybe it's just stress and high anxiety making me feel all tight and tender in my upper abdomen. Feels like a gnawing hunger pain...but it never goes away even when I do eat. I do know the holidays have brought stress, but I swear this feels like it won't let up even when I am distracted or relaxed. Taking Prilosec, but since the scope said there was no reflux or ulcers...don't know whether to bother taking it
The nexium seems to help when I take it. The other day I forgot and I was on the couch with my stomach burning! I had to wait 3 hours to have an empty stomach to take it
Sounds horrible but this happened to me and had to have the camera test. Think it is called a gastroscopy. Okay when I knew someone, something was looking into it and doing the appropriate test.. Turned out to be a hiatus hernia and a bit of gastritis!!! LOL! Not nice but at least gt some answers for the heartburn etc. Now on gaviscon. I was thinking of chickening out on the tests but once I got to the hospital and saw others in similar situation it calmed me down!! Nothing else did.