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Posted 7/31/2013 2:14 PM (GMT 0)
Hi All, Listen usually I'm pretty tough with pain (only been to er once in 8 years for my UC, knock on wood, I just take pain well I guess, not a good thing but I muster through it), but this acid reflux is making me cry. My PH level is  <(6.0) is too acidic per my stool test results, so should I be taking something for this? Zantac?

Also my elastase is abnormally low which is a pancreatic enzyme and my short chain fatty acids are abnormal.

I've been trying digestive enzymes but I'm going to have to stop everything and see what is causing this.

Could pentasa be releasing to early for me? I have left sided colitis but had a patch by the cecum so maybe that's why it was recommended.

Whats this meverant drug? (Imight be spelling it wrong)

Does anyone just take rectals supportories and enemas and not go orally, seems all 5-asa orally mess me up!

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Posted 7/31/2013 2:19 PM (GMT 0)
Oral meds messed up my stomach too. Which is why I'm on Prilosec. Acid reflux disease is very painful. But my Prilosec has been controlling mine.
Posted 7/31/2013 2:23 PM (GMT 0)
Yes yes yes. Pentasa has always, and still does, give me reflux. It sucks. I take pariet prn.
Posted 7/31/2013 2:26 PM (GMT 0)
Rectal meds won't even begin to touch the cecum. Pentasa is probably your best choice. It is active throughout the entire GI tract, so it's not like it's doing something unusually "early" for you. That's the way it works.

You might try taking it with food. Also, follow a GERD low acid diet and definitely try a ppi like prilosec or prevacid. If they don't help ask your GI for a prescription. Sometimes one brand of ppi won't work but another will.
Posted 7/31/2013 2:30 PM (GMT 0)
crapola is always bandaiding things! You take one med, then you have to take another to counteract the side effects of the other one, it sucks!
Posted 7/31/2013 2:49 PM (GMT 0)
DO NOT SIMPLY TAKE PPIs.. Investigate!!!! It's a tough road out of PPIs if you didnt need to take them to start with.. Research these Meds.. They alone deplete your body of b12, not to mention the rest.. Dr said ween off PPI'S you don't have reflux!!! After almost two years taking them because some quack said my symptoms fit the bill.. Guess what? I'm still taking them,reflux is a walk in the park compared to acid rebound from PPIs Withdrawal. Try DGL, Zantac, low fat, find out the cause, use non proton pump inhibitors.
Posted 8/1/2013 12:13 PM (GMT 0)
Therearemiracles,

I used to suffer from very bad GERD.

I had this reflux that used to come up - burned like chlorox!

Try slippery elm powder for the acid reflux, it works wonders!

Also try sleeping on your left side at night.

Also food combining can be very helpful for that too.

Hope you feel better soon.

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