Getting Off of Omeprazole: Share your success stories please.

@rozy288 I hope you keep in touch with Connect and I hope you get answers and some treatment options. Will you post again after your September Mayo Clinic tele-health appointment?

Please please give me the list of foods you avoided . I also suffer from GERD and want to take fewer medicines.Gratefully....Shahnaz.

Hi @nightngale1998 and members in this discussion,

I thought you might be interested in reading this recent article published in the journal of Gastroenterology:
– https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(17)35623-8/fulltext

Based upon numerous studies which evaluated the long-term use of PPIs like Omeprazole, researchers conclude that (copied):

– Despite the recent alarm generated by some high-profile, newsworthy publications, few (if any) of the recent scare stories have attempted to balance the benefits of PPIs with their alleged risks.
– A great number of patients are receiving PPIs unnecessarily for conditions or symptoms for which they would not have been expected to provide benefit. Furthermore, many patients who are on PPI treatment for appropriate indications are receiving excessively high daily doses.
– For some patients, treatment may need to be lifelong. However, multiple “false alarms” related to the safety of PPIs could ultimately lead to inappropriate discontinuation of treatment with potentially serious consequences for some patients.
– Much of the current evidence linking PPI use to serious long-term adverse consequences is weak and insubstantial. It should not deter prescribers from using appropriate doses of PPIs for appropriate indications.

I wanted to mention that Omeprazole was prescribed for me for several years by a physician. Endoscopy had shown eosinophilic, and Barrett's cells. There was reflux, and a hernia. This was bumped up to a higher dose, but really didn't help that much. A couple years later I happened to have a genetic test that was needed to determine how I metabolized certain drugs. The results came out that I was a very fast metabolizer. Omeprazole was one of the drugs that was affected by this genetic condition. I was told to switch to another PPI since I'd never get relief with the Omeprazole.

I took 20 mg of omeprazole once a day for at least 5 years plus. I asked my doctor to reduce it to 10 mg and all went well for 6 months. I read about a product that others had success with, so I tried it, IBS Clear. I took to with my omeprazole for a week and then took my omeprazole every other day for a week and then stopped. All is good and haven’t taken the omeprazole for 3 weeks now. I do take multidopholis (pro and prebiotic) every morning. I drink 4 oz of water with1/4 tsp of baking soda every night about an hour after I eat.