Weaning off of Dexilant?

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"After discussing with your medical team and deciding to wean off the medication you can do the following:
If you are taking a PPI once daily: start taking one pill every other day, continue for 2 weeks and then stop. If you are on a higher dose, your doctor may start by prescribing a lower one. In this case, take the lower dose once daily for 2 weeks, then every other day for 2 weeks, then stop."
-- How to Safely Stop Taking Proton Pump Inhibitors - What you need to know
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Have you discussed it with your doctor?

Anybody can share his/her experience with Dexilant? Is it better that the other medications? It certainly costs much more

I took Dexilant for well over a year for and discovered that the over the counter product Prevacid is the same stuff and much cheaper than the co-pay for the prescription Dexilant, so the doctor said that I could switch. Prevacid has a 15 mg capsule so I took that for awhile before asking the pharmacist if the PPI's can cause dementia and was told yes! so I stopped it altogether and take Pepcid or the equivalent and also a product named Stomach Comfort from Nature's Sunshine. No one ever told me to wean off of the PPI!! Best wishes to you. Baz10