6 weeks ago I became ill, after 2 weeks they said it was a sickness bug 😷 So they gave me some tablets after 1 week I began to feel better, but then after a weekend of drinking coke and fried chicken for tea I began to be ill again!!! So now 4 weeks on I've had my bloods done, stool sample and even a scan and all reveals nothing!
They say it's just gastritis/ ulcer. I'm now on double lansoprozole and rinitadine (sp) and they now have given me co- dydramol, plus I'm on anti sickness meds, nothing seems to help, I'm due to go back to the doctors on Monday and I'm gonna ask for the camera down, but I'm scared if they say there's nothing there as I'll feel like this forever and I know this feeling isn't normal 😩, I'd rather they find something and treat me with it, is there anything or anybody that has had similar situation and different meds that helped?????
Could be IBS if you have loose stools or constipation, stomach pain and especially if you felt ill after drinking coke and fried chicken. Carbonated drinks and anything fried are common culprits with IBS. Ask your doctor about Irritable Bowel. If all your tests are negative, IBS can be diagnosed. Have you been tested for celiac and what scans did you have? Ask for a colonoscopy and endoscopy which should confirm gastritis/ulcers if this is the problem.
Hi have you been tested for hyplori?
My doctor said they can't test for that unless they stop my medication? But another doctor said she's never heard of it? How can they not its on the web
They just did a scan on my tummy and pelvis, and ruled out that it was my liver, pancreas and kidneys. I am going tomorrow and I will ask for them to put me down for a camera, the only think that really gets me is this sickness, I've even got anti sickness meds that they give to chemo patience. But that still doesn't help
I was suffering with loads of stomach issues since I was about 20 years old I'm now 38 and i had camera down and they found hyplori the 4 th time I had it it done I did a stool test and it was negative I think I still have it after the triple therapy I still get symptoms no meds work for me either I'm fed up hope u get sorted.
An endoscopy should pick up h pylori if you have it. I had a stool test for it but fortunately it was negative.
For the H.Pylori breath test pls wait 4 weeks after antibiotic treatment, and 2 weeks after stopping PPI. Otherwise get's false neg results.
If it applies to gastric biopsies as well, I am not sure, but would make sense, since staining looks for the physical evidence of that bacteria and an urease test on biopsie for their metabolism. So I would say yes, for biopsies need to stop antibiotic and acid treatment for weeks beforehand.
Ou, that sounds frustrating reoccurance of H.pylori
Did they
-due to your history, it is not needed as a routine test -
ever do a bacterial H.pylori culture (and PCR for strain identification) from your biopsie bacteria and test for antibiotic sensitivity?
an antibiotic suspectibility test/antibiogram (antibioitics tested on culture, if work, which ones work) - seems most important in your case, since you seem to fail treatment repeatedly.
Sometimes H.pylori strain can be resistant to the given treatment, that usually works. Also then important to know in the area since there might be more people with the same antibioitic resistant strain!
Also you can get reinfected.
Not saying it is the case, but if you kiss someone who is a carrier (and not treated), you get reinfected.
So you could be reinfected constantly or the H.pylori was never ever gone completely (fail of treatment) in your stomach.
Hence please ask if they could kindly perform a culture and antibiotic treatment testing on the actual strain(s) of H.pylori you have next time they take an gastric antral biopsie.
Best of luck!
I had a stool test for h pylori and it was negative. I was eventually diagnosed with IBS.
I've been back to the doctors and she's put me down to have a camera down, she has said that I'm on all the medication I can be and that it's gastritis and will take weeks for my stomach to heal up, it's like having a cut it takes weeks she said. I did ask about the h pori thing but she again said I need to clean off my meds for 2weeks, I dnt fancy doing that, I think I'll try the camera and see if that helps. I'm just not hungry but they say I need to eat to help me get better.... It's painfull not eating and then eating
How did they test for Ibs?
I think I'll have the camera first to see if that has any indication but even if it did she said the tablets I'm on now will be the same as when I've had the camera
There is no specific test. It is a diagnosis of exclusion which means a battery of tests need to be done to rule out other causes, if nothing shows up, IBS can be a diagnosed. I had a urine test, ultrasound, stool test for h pylori and fecal calprotectin which looks for IBD, and celiac. All was negative. Sometimes, you don't need tests if the doctor recognises your symptoms. It took eight doctors and three months to get an IBS diagnosis.
yes, true, any breath test or biopsie culture can only be done 2 weeks after PPI stop and 4 weeks after antibiotic treatment. Otherwise false results. Just keep it - the culture and antibiotic test- in mind in case h.pylori is again found to treat it successfully.
All all the best!
Hi Ginette
I have h pylori gastritis for 7 months now, I've done three different treatment regimens with antibiotics and stool test came still positive 😞
If your stool test was negative that means you eradicate it. It's a very accurate test. Symptoms can take a long time to disappear especially if you had inflammation pain. What symptoms do you still have?
Hi Leni I have really bad reflux and burning most of the time I take esomeprazole but it's not helping even on the higher doses the stool test was negative before they found it in my stomach.
Ask for another stool test. If still positive you need to try a treatment wth diff antibiotics. Don't give up. I won't until I can get rid of this awful bacteria.
Hi Leni75,
Did you ever get a H.pylori culture done in order to test different antibioitics on YOUR STRAIN that you got in your stomach?
Cultures are never a routine test, but when treatment fails repetatively, it is a good indication whenever you have another gastroscopy, to culture those buddies and throw antibioitics onto them (and see where they cannot grow = antibioitic works!)
It's called antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) or antibiogram since there can always be antibiotic resistance = not work.
Please ask for that one at next gastroscopy if docs do not think of it themselves.
There is also the possibility that you get re-infected. (contagious; person to person via saliva, via fecal contaminated by food, water)
Am I repeating myself? It hink that's the same thread I wrote this 'culture' 'antibioitic testing' already. So sorry.