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Digestive health
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Awesome!

Thanks so much for the positive update.

Is also very valuable since you described what you are actually taking/eating now and was helpful for you, which can be beneficial for others too in the same boat.

(often posters do not update and question somehow left in limbo for anyone trying to find an answer via reading through existing posts. Updates are so valuable! Ta!)

I wish you a Happy and better New Year too!!! Keep up doing what you are doing, sounds like the right track! Wonderful.

Take care!

(I am in Australia, but from Europe)

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Hello Sanya

Just a quick update, still up and down realy. Sometimes getting pain in upper tummy/ abdomen, from region above belly button all way down to belly button. Accompanied by occasional sharp pain and soreness, sometimes before, sometimes after eating,

Continuing omoprazole , 1 per night at 20mg, and find the pain is aggravated if I don;t take it - really frustrating as I was hoping to wean off it and replace with mastic gum, but no chance so far.

Still taking slipperly elm as required, licorice root occasionally, these do help - especially .slippery elm helps with pain

I have matula tea   line dup, not trie dit yet, but wnat to be off omoprazole.

Was keen to look into Dookanoos suggestion but it's disappeared along with another one I was hoping to look at this evening, oh well.......

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A very long road.

Maybe you would like to ask doc to switch omeprazole to a not as strong H2receptor antagonist? (This was the way for my girl to get off PPI very very slowly)

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It really is such a long, long road, sometimes it seems there is just no end in sight. I now have the ranitidine, but what I am finding even when I try to reduc eomoprazole to every other day or even  skip it only 1 in 3 days,  I still experience stomach pain that only goes away with omoprazole. So frustrating. I desperately want to get off omoprazole. I am losing hair with it, and suspect mood issues and sleeplessness may be linked with it. I was hoping that after 3 months + of regualr omoprazole my ulcer would heal, so I am  confused and anxious about the fact I still get what feels like ulcer pain more than 3 months down the line after watching my diet, and taking omoprazole. CFS doesn't help I suppose. I am constantly in pain, and having stomach pain adds to the distress. I have been overall better I must say, and perhaps careless the past few days in eating meat more than usual, but still wondering why I get pain without omoprazole and how to  gradually come off it when I experience pain and discomfort every time I miss it. I generalyl take 20mg every morning but sometimes 20mg morning and 20mg night, 

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Moment, you have Ranitidine (Histamin 2 blocker) AND Omeprazole (PPI).

Both are best taken before a meal. Some take PPI in morning, H2 blocker in evening.

Also PPI is simply stronger, a different action.

Histamin 2 blockers usually have the benefit side effect, of tackling nausea a bit.

If you struggle with a constant reflux or stomach ulcer, PPI are way to go.

I have to say some are on it, as mentioned,

for already 25 years. Since it can lead to malabsorbtions takes a vitB complex patch once a week. But can't get off.

The risk of getting acid related oesophageal or stomach cancer is higher than the risk of taking PPI for this person.

Half a year and healed and good would be awesome!

3 months is not a long time for an ulcer.

But sometimes it does not heal or physical structures (like hernia) always allowing a reflux, so that long term takling the acid since it was in places where it should not be, the better option.

Please discuss with your doc.

But if you feel that without it is not good, you better stay on it anyway.

Taking PPI every other day is also not good aparently.

It's better to take a smaller dose every day than double the dose every second day due to its work mechanism.

We went to 'every other day' with the lowest H2 blocker. But PPI the smallest dose every day.

The rebound acid effect is terrible. And even if it was normal acid, if the stomach is not healed or reflux happening, even the normal acid is to much.

All the best!!!!!