"I am now tapering off famotidine. I was taking 40 mg twice a day for almost 2 months. I am taking 20 mg before every meal for a week. Then I'll skip the second one for a week. Etc."

How did this go for you @malooga?

I didn't know that I couldn't just go cold turkey off of famotidine (also 40 mg twice a day for at least two months). I stopped taking it a few days ago, and almost immediately started having problems, especially around mid-afternoon and then in the middle of the night. It turned into GERD-induced asthma (with wheezing and whistling sounds whenever I would breathe out). Sitting up helped, but my pulse oximeter indicated that my oxygen sat rate was down to 88% at around 3 a.m. I learned from Dr. Google that caffeine is a bronchodilator, so I slurped down a cup of coffee and within a half an hour, the pulse ox was up to 91% and my cough had settled. I called my allergist in the morning, and he said I should go to urgent care, which I did. When I got up again around 3 a.m. this morning with a coughing fit, I drank another cup of coffee while googling famotidine. That's when I learned that you can get rebound reflux if you quit it cold turkey. I'm now trying to figure out how I can go off of it without destroying my lungs.

Did switching to the 20 mg tabs work for you? Also, you said "before every meal" - does that mean you are taking it three times a day? Thanks for any advice you can share.