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KellyCz
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Hi all,
I have never posted on this board before, but I am hoping someone can help me. Here is a short version of what I have been dealing with:
I started having reflux problems around 2006, after gaining a substantial amount of weight. (Close to 60 lbs. in a few months, due to medications I was on at the time.) I was having almost constant heartburn/reflux at that time, so I went to the doctor who told me to take Prilosec OTC. That was ineffective, so because of my insurance (medicaid) she referred me to a GI specialist who was asked to do a scope on me, but never did. She ended up trying a two medication corabination of Prevacid 2x daily and Zantac 300 mg. at night, to prevent nighttime episodes of reflux. This worked for about a year, so I stopped seeing the GI doc.
Then, in late 2007, the pharmacy I use told me I could not keep taking so much of the same type of medication, and started refusing to fill both meRAB to be taken at the same time. I had to choose, and I chose the prevacid because it is the one I knew was working the best. Everything was fine, aside from occasional breakthrough reflux problems for the next 6 months.
In May of 2008, I started having almost constant heartburn again, and basically stopped being able to eat almost everything without being miserable/vomiting afterwarRAB. Once again, I went to my primary doctor, who said, after a hidascan that my gallbladder was barely functioning and that this was probably where my symptoms were coming from. I had my gallbladder removed in late June 2008, and was even able to reduce my prevacid to once a day dosing of 30 mg. before breakfast. In October of 2008, I had too much "breakthrough reflux" and my doctor increased the prevacid to 2x daily again.
Up until a few weeks ago, it was working fine. Right now, I am having almost constant burning/reflux again. I do plan to go to the doctor when they open again after the holiday, probably Monday, but until then I am miserable. Whatever I eat enRAB up causing reflux, including bland fooRAB. I have not gained any more weight, if anything have lost some. I am so sick of this, and I am afraid my primary care doctor will refer me back to the GI, who did nothing for me to speak of. I really don't know why this is happening and I would really like to. My question I guess is where do we go from here? Anyone have a similar story to mine whose reflux was previously well controlled with meRAB, and now it isn't? The issue with trying other medicines was previously that I only had medicaid (and anyone with it knows that they are notorious for not being flexible.) Now, I have medicare D that covers my prescriptions....will my choices for medicines to try be any better? I would really like to hear others' experiences with this. Thank you, and I apologize for this being so long.
Kelly
I have never posted on this board before, but I am hoping someone can help me. Here is a short version of what I have been dealing with:
I started having reflux problems around 2006, after gaining a substantial amount of weight. (Close to 60 lbs. in a few months, due to medications I was on at the time.) I was having almost constant heartburn/reflux at that time, so I went to the doctor who told me to take Prilosec OTC. That was ineffective, so because of my insurance (medicaid) she referred me to a GI specialist who was asked to do a scope on me, but never did. She ended up trying a two medication corabination of Prevacid 2x daily and Zantac 300 mg. at night, to prevent nighttime episodes of reflux. This worked for about a year, so I stopped seeing the GI doc.
Then, in late 2007, the pharmacy I use told me I could not keep taking so much of the same type of medication, and started refusing to fill both meRAB to be taken at the same time. I had to choose, and I chose the prevacid because it is the one I knew was working the best. Everything was fine, aside from occasional breakthrough reflux problems for the next 6 months.
In May of 2008, I started having almost constant heartburn again, and basically stopped being able to eat almost everything without being miserable/vomiting afterwarRAB. Once again, I went to my primary doctor, who said, after a hidascan that my gallbladder was barely functioning and that this was probably where my symptoms were coming from. I had my gallbladder removed in late June 2008, and was even able to reduce my prevacid to once a day dosing of 30 mg. before breakfast. In October of 2008, I had too much "breakthrough reflux" and my doctor increased the prevacid to 2x daily again.
Up until a few weeks ago, it was working fine. Right now, I am having almost constant burning/reflux again. I do plan to go to the doctor when they open again after the holiday, probably Monday, but until then I am miserable. Whatever I eat enRAB up causing reflux, including bland fooRAB. I have not gained any more weight, if anything have lost some. I am so sick of this, and I am afraid my primary care doctor will refer me back to the GI, who did nothing for me to speak of. I really don't know why this is happening and I would really like to. My question I guess is where do we go from here? Anyone have a similar story to mine whose reflux was previously well controlled with meRAB, and now it isn't? The issue with trying other medicines was previously that I only had medicaid (and anyone with it knows that they are notorious for not being flexible.) Now, I have medicare D that covers my prescriptions....will my choices for medicines to try be any better? I would really like to hear others' experiences with this. Thank you, and I apologize for this being so long.
Kelly