Side effects with omeprazole/Prilosec use

I just had my Linx removed and was back on PPI's with ulcers and stage C esophagitis. Want to get off but doctors think they are perfectly safe. Now read they cause dementia. What kind of foods can you eat? I don't eat any fructose, grains, carbs and use low acid coffee, really doesn't leave a lot of choice! Can't have fruit or most vegetables.

Hi, initially I only ate eggs and toast the majority of the time and soup until my stomach calmed down. Then I started adding food back in slowly to see how I would feel. I also found a fantastic doctor and nutritionist who helped me. I use low acid coffee as well, eat only gluten free products. If I want pasta, I buy Italian brands as European wheat is very different from US wheat. Quinoa and brown rice are digestible. I only eat fruit from the berry family the majority of the time now - strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries and avocados. Blueberries especially are very good and highly nutritious which I use in smoothies. Find a good protein powder, add almond or oat milk and about a cup of blueberries and blend, easily digested. For vegetables, I eat those considered low glycemic. I eat lots of eggs either hard boiled, scrambled with a mix of feta cheese and some greens like spinach. Also organic yogurt made with either milk or sheep/goat milk which is easily digested. There is also a yogurt that is labeled A2 which is more digestible. And then I also stick to grass fed butter, grass fed beef, wild caught fish. I choose organics as much as possible too to avoid toxins as much as possible. For a snack, I have crackers (gluten free by Simple Mills) and almond butter. Peanut butter is not good. It is highly inflammatory. The way peanuts are stored makes them moldy which creates aflatoxin - associated with increased risk of liver cancer. Start slowly adding foods so you can identify what works for you and what doesn't. If you don't exercise, try walking daily for 20 minutes. Walking helps with digestion. Eat at least 3-4 hours before bedtime. I would also encourage you to try meditation and breath work to relieve stress if you are not already doing this. Stress is a very big contributor to what happens in our gut. These are 2 meditation apps I use - Insight Timer and Headspace. Best to you finding what works.

Going to transition to see if this will avoid heart palpitations that have started to occur after a year on nexium.

This is really great advice- thank you for sharing!

Ranitidine was taken off the market, so hopefully you do not take it any longer.

I switched from omeprazole to rabeprazole instantly. Omeprazole gave me daily diarrhea. Rabeprazole works very well to control GERD, but it does give me a lot of gas. Originally I had Barrett's Esophagus, but my last endoscopy showed none.

I tried several of the brands with Omeprazole. The only one that has worked for me is Zegerid. I have been on it for years. At long as I take it every morning I’m good to go.
Tried getting off of it several times over the years but no luck.
I assume maybe it works better because of the Sodium Bicarbonate with it.

Yes. I was on in for 25 years and had to stop abruptly/completely while in the hospital with microscopic colitis. So far so good. Was originally prescribed due to GERD.

I was on PPIs (prescribed by two doctors) for years. First to supposedly treat me for GERDS. The second time when an endoscopy showed gastritis.

Rule #1. DO NOT GO. cold turkey. You must wean yourself off any PPI gradually. Why? the PPI inhibits the pumps that make acid, because you NEED stomach acid to digest your food. BUT you body, needing that acid, keeps making more pumps, which the PPIs keep inhibiting. When you go cold turkey all the pumps come back on full blast and you get agony. I have high pain treshholds so I soldiered on but boy was it uncomfortable.

Rule #2. You have to rebuild your gut lining and your gut microbiome. For the former try zinc carnosine. For the latter, BIOGais gut health ...and lots of fiber and foods like artichoke, sun chokes and foods with inulin.

Rule #3. Try half a lemon in water first thing in the morning. Try some apple cider vinegar before bedtime (in water of course). Why? Your stomach lumen wants to be a 5.5 PH. That's slightly acidic.

Rule #4. Try to get as healthy as you can and lose weight if you need to. The ONLY way you can do that is time restricted eating or intermittent fasting as it is known. If you don't like breakfast by all means skip it. I never cared for breakfast or breakfast foods but dutiful ate it as the medical establishment and Big Brother claimed we had to. Look where that got us. An obesity epidemic. I like to feast for dinner, a great variety of nutrients and eat to satiety. I have cut way down on alcohol although I still like the occasional half glass of wine or a mezcal which I make with my own hibiscus juice, lime, orange concoction. Get and read Jason Fund Obesity Code and Diabetes Code. Do cut out any added sugars or artificial sweeteners. They are sheer poison. I managed to cure even my Insulin Resistance and have lost and kept off 41 pounds over about 4 years.

I am 85. Never healthier after bouts of awful diseases which by and large doctors only made worse. It is wonderful to feel and be healthy. Your whole outlook on life changes.

Rule #5. Read and watch good YouTube health talks (Robert Lustig, Perlmutter, Sten Ekberg, Jason Fung, Peter Attria. So much more information is available today to us than it was in the past. You also can access any studies on the HIH site or Medline. Be very skeptical about any advice given you by run of the mill Western trained docs. They get NO nutrient education and the whole system has been coopted by Big Food and Big Pharma and Federal Guidelines which are generally the very apposite of what you need to do to maintain optimal health. As an example I recently food Stevia and "natural flavors" even in supplements. Hopeless. Stevia wrecks your microbiome and raises insulin by at least 20% over ordinary glucose. Almost makes you think that "they" want to keep us all sick. Who the hell needs to have their pills sweetener? It is sheer madness.

I would like to share with you that I was taking Nexium in the morning, had a flareup (maybe from carrying something very very heavy) and so I added famotidine at night. Since I still wasn't feeling well, I decided to try to switch the Nexium to famotidine, which I did gradually. Then, taking famotidine morning and night I still was not feeling great, so I decided to not take the famotidine in the morning and instead took a probiotic on an empty stomach. I felt a bit better with this. I then started taking melatonin at night and stopped the famotidine at night. The melatonin seems to reduce the gerd, although I do still have gerd symptoms at night. So, now I'm not taking nexium nor famotidine, and I feel better than I felt before. Still not perfect, but hoping that I'm in the right direction.
So, consider if reducing medications might make you feel better. (but reducing any PPI needs to be done very gradually or you'll have an acid surge, and expect to have a few days of feeling worse, so take other meds to get you through those days)