Getting Off of Omeprazole: Share your success stories please.

Wouldn't taking vinegar increase your GERD since it is an acid? I take 4 generic Nexiums plus a Zantac along with D3 and magnesium. My blood work is fine.

@dandi apple cider vinegar exacerbates my GERD too.

6 months on on either omeprazole or Protonix. Stuff gave me low energy and generally sick feeling in my stomach. Went off cold turkey with no side effects and felt better. Now use ginger and enzyme supplements daily.

I drank about 2 tbsp ginger juice mixed with about 12 oz hot water daily for the past 8 mos along with many diet changes and famotidine 20mg am and pm. No caffeine, low-fat diet, head of bed at 30 degrees, decreased alcohol, etc. It was a lot of work but worth it.

I hesitate to write this because i am absolutely not an expert and am an experiment of one. With that said I will tell you my experience.

i was on Prilosec (prescription) for years and then there were a series of events and I stopped taking it. Surprise. NO problem. Then I had an endoscopy (for other reasons) and asked the doctor if he thought I should be taking Prilosec and he said he saw no reason. So I have not gone back to it.

What I did do was adjust my diet and stop eating citrus, tomatoes, and other items - i actually forget now because it is all in the past. I DO eat yogurt, cottage cheese, other cheese (not cheddar) peanut butter, meat, cooked (and non cruciferous) vegetables, yams, berries, bananas, other stuff. . I have a whole list somewhere if you want it, just PM me. I created the list by trial and error - if something gave me GERD, out it went.

One take away I came to was the gastroenterologists do like to prescribe Prilosec. If you have something it will probably fix it. I have other problems but Prilosec is not fixing them, still the GI doctor wanted me to take the Prilosec. . All medicines have an affect on our kidneys and livers. I have a sense Prilosec is not a bad medicine any more than any other (I went back to the original research and found it not compelling) ..it is just that all medicines have problems.

BTW - that vinegar. Yikes. NEVER or as Jackie above called it - "acid"

Best to you and good luck-

Val

Were you taking omeprazol for GERD?
You substituted the IBS clear for omeprazol for GERD medication?

Thanks! I am seeing an osteopathic doctor now and goi g to stop taking Omeprazole and see what happens. She is ok with me trying this. I found out almost 3 years ago I have a sliding hiatal hernia and the GE started me on the oneprazole just a 40 mg in the morning. Wish me luck because like most folks, every food on the “bad” list is what I like to eat.