PPIs Long Term Effects | Dr. Willie Melvin, MD, FACS

[@nataliemiles4430]

Due to PPIs , I developed this list of problems Gastritis, esophagitis, colitis, proctitis, pooped chunks of food, severe L sided colic, multiple ER visits, inability to digest food, malnourishment, ripped a calf muscle going down stairs, broke my wrist and tore all the cartilage in my wrist and hand requiring surgery, depression, SI, weakness, delayed healing, brain fog, joint pain. While the GI decided the best course of treatment was to prescribe the strongest available. I threw them in the trash in July 2021, and I’m still working on my gut health. I now take betaine hcl with pepsin to help my stomach acid production.

[@anitasharma-pv9uz]

From how long u v been taking ppi ? Pls reply

[@paulogarcia9739]

Doctors are undereducated as fuck and it's embarrassing. Sine they have no idea how to treat conditions like GERD, they result to overprescribing PPIs without solving the problem. Sick and tired of being prescribed something that in itself, causes the same symptoms as the sickness I'm trying to recover from.

[@gloriastreet4684]

Pretty much the same for me

[@davidmustaine2921]

good idea to throw them out I also experienced big problems with them only been on them 5 days recently and lost about 4kg in jusst that time frame now put back on 1.3kg since stopping them as im starting to absorb nutrients again, but I had been on them years ago also for about 2 months, they can cause things like SIBO, vitamin B12, iron, calcium and magnesium deficiency and magnesium deficiency happens only 3 months after starting them I read other day guy was on them for 12 years and he had so little magnesium in his body he almost died, they can also cause C-diff which can be life threatening and pneumonia and also give you candida overgrowth. Dr's just will throw these things at you willy nilly and they just are shills for Big Pharma who doesnt really care about your health and wellbeing. I just drink Coconut Milk now for my GERD issues as I cant tolerate Dairy anymore. also I was on Omeprazole Actavis and I looked up the Ingredients of this and I seen Polysorbate 80 in there, you wanna steer clear of this they also use it in the Covid Vaccines, it alters your body from absorbing Calcium and Potassium properly, Mcdonalds use it in their crappy food too so Id avoid Macca's like the plague when you have GERD. now I know why I always react badly to their food. I now check all food labels on food I buy to make sure its not there as well as Carrageenan which is really bad for your intestines there was some other crap ingredients in the Capsule I couldnt even pronounce that havent heard of before and dont really wanna know about them tbh but I have a feeling they are poison anyway.

[@khaliddurrani6432]

How about checking bone mineral density every two years, serum B12, Magnesium, calcium every 3-5 years.

[@Dr.Rahul.J.A]

If u are taking ppis chronically then yes

[@abhishekghosal3647]

Don't check. Just take some multivitamin and minerals tablets

[@ducheau100]

I have a hiatal hernia. I need to be on them or surgery, that often doesn't work

[@kerikrogel9126]

I'd had a little reflux during my pregnancy. I didn't know that pregnancy reflux can go away after pregnancy sometimes. My doctor immediately put me on max dosage PPI's and said I'd be taking them for the rest of my life, never told me there were any consequences. My blood iron level hit 2 micrograms, I asked if I should maybe get off the PPI's, she dismissed my concerns completely. I can't try going to another doctor, there is only one doctor who can prescribe medication for a two hour drive from my home. I'm now on a carnivore diet (even though she told me to go vegan with dairy) and hoping for the best, I've been on PPI's for 27 years of my life.

[@Rebecca-fz1te]

Ive been on it for 8 urs. Could only eat the same thing every single day. I was also on the max dosage. I finally started cutting the Tablets (cutting 1/4 at a time) I would take that for a week or two as long as my stomach didn't feel different. If my stomach felt fine after 2 weeks, I cut another 1/4. I am now down to taking Just 1 pill instead of two. (They "Say" you cant cut it or crush it cuz its a "time-released" med.) But Thats BULL. Try it and see How it Goes. God Bless You!!

[@naytewilson]

⁠@@Rebecca-fz1tewhat the fuck are you talking about? Nexium is in capsules not crushable.

[@meneses_i2301]

27 years is a long time. Glad to see that over all you’re doing good now. Which ppi are you on now?

[@kerikrogel9126]

@@meneses_i2301 I stopped PPI's cold turkey, my doctor wouldn't help me get off them, so I couldn't get any further prescriptions to help. The absolute melting-from-within lava level acid reflux from Omeprazole withdrawal was horrible, but red delicious apples helped immensely. I had to sleep on my left side on a bed with a very elevated head for about a month. But, now, my stomach actually digests my food within an hour! Before, on Omeprazole, sometimes I'd wake up in the morning and I'd have slight reflux jump into my mouth, along with some of the food I'd eaten TWELVE hours ago, undigested! I'd told my doctor about it, but she said I had to be lying, because she believed that people can only experience something like that if they've had diabetes for at least 25+ years. One thing that shocked me about the Carnivore diet: I thought that eating fat would give me horrible reflux. Only hot fat, like in a piping hot steak, did.

[@gloriastreet4684]

@@naytewilson curb the fowl language, especially when you don’t know what you’re talking about. All prescription PPI’s are in tablet form… Anything that ends in “zole”… rabeprazole, Pantoprozole, omeprazole, lansoprazole, etc.

[@tommygreist9560]

I've been on 40 MG of Omeprazole for 25 years......Man.....If I don't have 1 everey day I'll suffer.

[@Dr.Rahul.J.A]

😂... GET A SURGERY !!!!!!! Unless u have gone to eating spicy foods and irregular diet AGAIN hmm.

[@JusThrowitDiscGolf]

That’s sad and way too long. I stopped using them and my esophagus seems to be doing better. I just sleep upright

[@nightphilosopher]

​@@JusThrowitDiscGolf Can you please tell me how did you managed to stop? I've been taking mine for 11 years now and I want to stop.

[@JusThrowitDiscGolf]

@@nightphilosopher honestly I just stopped taking them. I sleep more upright and really don’t even spicy foods or things to irritate it as much. I just recently after two years got another upper endoscopy and they told me my stomach ulcers healed and my throat went from grade D to grade C. I would say that’s a positive since I stopped taking them. When I was on those pills I had bad stomach pain, a bunch of other issues and my nails were brittle

[@JusThrowitDiscGolf]

@@nightphilosopher I started taking vitamins and also I learned you don’t want to lose your stomach acid but just make it more acidic so it can break down your food and ultimately help your sphincter close. There is a medicine you can take to increase the stomach acidity level. But I’m of course no doctor, I’m just saying you have to find out whether you have too much stomach acid or not enough. Was advised to drink 5 ounces of water with some baking soda and if you burp right away then you have too much stomach acid and if you didn’t you don’t have enough. Either way for me PPIs made it worse and if you can’t break down food anyway then why use PPIs and lessen your stomach acid. As I mentioned, I stopped taking it and somehow my stomach ulcers healed and my throat is healing. No bad stomach aches or bad heartburn

[@LoveLife-wy8gt]

I have lower back pain on left side . It started 7 months after i was put on it.

[@Amaodish943]

Same with me , I was taking since one year before and I'm now suufer from back pain from last two months.

[@bennym1326]

Hi, I accidentally overdosed on NSAIDs and developed reactive gastritis. I was put on vonoprazan fumarate for 5 weeks and omeprazole for 2 weeks. My gastritis has healed up, but now I have very slow gastric emptying.. I feel horrible. Will this be forever?

[@rubypaul6339]

Yes go to bland diet to save your life ..my experience

[@waleedhossam2601]

​@@rubypaul6339Can I eat Berries while on Bland Diet ?

[@EvanRajala]

@@rubypaul6339can u elab??

[@jaeger9654]

Hi did you already stop ppi. And still had slow digestion?

[@bennym1326]

@@jaeger9654 yes I did! It was terrible. I woke up feeling like I had a bowling ball in my stomach every morning. I took digestive enzymes and slowly incorporated fibre. I also drank lots of Kefir! It did wonders for me. I still have a bit of IBS from it all, but it is improving a lot!

[@SamuelFoster666]

Tasteless and odorless, in the blood levels nearly undetectable, carefully engineered, careful people...!!!

[@lydianacht2450]

Can it be taken as needed instead of as a daily regimen?

[@Tommyshark5]

What a disgrace the Taxi in London should defy this ruling.

[@helenalovelock1030]

My boyfriend has been on them for 20 years 🥲 because of hietus hernia

[@sampathkumarpulapaka1454]

Is he got any problem?? Or living happily can you please inform me ..

[@helenalovelock1030]

@@sampathkumarpulapaka1454 Well he recently have extreme fatigue and body aches that went on for months so we went to the doctors and they did bloods and referred him to Ultrasound and told him to come off the Omapozole for a month to see if his bloods improved. They did improve but this could have been because he changed his diet to a cleaner diet no sugar etc. He’s now off the tablets and taking Gaviscon Advance as needed instead and doing well. He’s also taking B12 to try help with energy level as i heard the tablets can decrease B12 absorption so though we would try that along with small meals and gerd friendlier diet. So far so good

[@nightphilosopher]

How is he doing?

[@mari051986]

@@nightphilosopher I know lots of people taking them for over 30 years and they are just fine! I take them too for almost a year now - 3-4 times a week since i have hiatal hernia, lose sphincter, gastritis esophagitis but i'm also very careful of what i'm eating..