Side effects with omeprazole/Prilosec use

Stopping cold turkey is always a problem. The advice above regarding tapering is good (for example the VA link and others). Since your dosage was raised, I suggest you also lower the dose to 20 mg omeprazole twice a day but do it slowly. I completely got off Nexium (like omeprazole) and famotidine (pepcid) by switching the AM nexium once a week to famotidine, and then every few days and slowly lowered it to every other day and after that I was able to also stop the famotidine in the AM. I then took a probiotic in the morning instead. I was taking famotidine at night and that I stopped gradually as well, and replaced with taking melatonin before bed. (depending on your age, this may make sense for you. melatonin levels are lower as you age) If there was some acid rebound, I took Gaviscon Advance at night, and Tums as needed. Do it as slowly as you need to, realize you may have some rebound but it will straighten out in a few weeks as long as you don't make a drastic reduction all at once.

Yea that makes sense

Tapering off many medications can be challenging. I would recommend that you keep your doctor in the loop when you figure out the best way that works for YOU. It could be useful information for her/him.

Jim

Agree

to cpd54

Hells bells I don't know how to send this to you cpd54 who LIKED me. I'll send it to myself and see if it gets to you? Instead of integrative ideas I received a bunch of emails telling of how to cut pills in half. My goal is not to be on drugs. I have been fortunate with a healthy lifestyle and the advice of both an MD and ND's at 70 something I don't take any drugs. Our chemistry may be unbalanced but we never are deficiency in propylene glycol often in laxatives (which is also the double strength alcohol in antifreeze) unless we forget to put it in our car when temperatures are below freezing. lol PS I use the minerals in the night too to get the right osmotic gradient for a redundant colon since our motility time is longer. Good luck @farmersmith

@farmersmith integrative medicine can be useful after getting off drugs, but tapering by "cutting pills in half" is necessary first.

You are fortunate to be able to avoid drugs. Many of us need them and even endure side effects for the benefit vs risk.

I have a kid on insulin. She would have died 30 years without.

Thanks @windyshores for that reminder. Not everyone takes the same path with their lifestyle, food choices and health practitioners. Even then there is no guarantee regarding many health conditions. I am sorry our medical system is not very open to the values awaiting us with Naturopathic care and am hopeful more people discover the value of its holistic, functional, integrative health care value. Thanks @farmersmith, sorry for being slow on the uptake of the pill splitting! lol Best to your daughter and her healthy life!

Hi. I too have had to wean off of a ppi at large doses. My dr did it much slower. My weaning was over 4 months. So had no side effects. Good luck! It will get better. I’m on Pepcid now. It definitely helps. Changed my diet and sleep on an incline with several pillows. You’ve got this! 😊😊😊😊😊😊

Dependence on omeprazole needs to be reduced gradually. I used to take one pill (20mg) a day, but now I hardly take omeprazole, and instead I take Pepcid (10mg) once every two days.

My functional med dr suggested /urged slippery elm capsules rather than PPIs. Which I took in capsule format for many years I have recently been diagnosed with collagenous colitis.. .one of the causes....you got itPPIs!. Now suggested I take it in powder format vs capsules....1 1/2 tsp in a cup of water. Husband was on prison as well. Cardiologist urged slow weaning c I'm on old nurse. Original order for PPIs was 2 weeks unless diagnosis was barrels esopagitis ir ZE...Zollinger Ellison. Of course it was big pharma who stated Ppis safe to use long term.. just do a really slow weaning