Can you get acid rebound if you were on PPI for only 4 weeks??

trying to get off these ppi's is not easy...it changes your system. not sure what your diet consists of...but, don't think any kind of milk or cream is good for you. get a book about what you should and should not eat...acid content. also, burning is the worst in a.m. because of empty stomach...and eating too much and being full can make you sic. eat small portions throught the day...drink lots of water all day. and don't eat anything 3 hours before you go to bed. hang in there...it took me about 4 weeks to get back to some kind of normalcy. let me know how you progress.

bythesea said...
oh, just curious...how come you came off your ppi's so rapidly? it can take up to 3 weeks for them to kick in. if you don't get better, maybe you should stay on them 2 or 3 mo.

Ok this is complicated but here how it went:

One night i was eating pistachio and felt it got stuck. Ate bread and other stuff on top of it hoping it will dislodge it but ended up throwing up everything.But feeling didnt go away so ended up in ER. ER did xray and said there is nothing in my throat and gave me protonix and anxiety med ( for sleep) and was refered to gastro doc. I couldnt get any GI appt sooner due to my insurance procedure ( specialist referal) and GI docs being booked out. So i ended up going to PCP which put me on PPI. Looking back I think i may have been misdignosed about whole reflux thing, may be it was anxiety acting as reflux. Also, i was put on nexium 40 mg by my PCP without any test. It started working from day 2 of taking it. I was given sample of 5 capsules. I took it and stopped it and then again i was put on 30 days supply. So i had break between it. Also, i was on liquid diet this whole time since ER visit. I saw GI docs PA ( not even DOC) after being on nexium for 20 days. She gave me option of endoscopy or upper GI xray. I wanted to go for non invasive test first so i went with upper GI xray. Results came back saying that i had small hietal hernia and spontaneous reflux. PA told me to contiue taking nexium until 30 days supply done then taper and start introducting foods back in diet.

bythesea said...
oh, thanks for the update! yes, it's hard to figure out what's going on with gastrointestinal problems without lots of tests! so now they found that you have a hietal hernia reflux and you don't need to be on any meds for this? if so, that's great!! thanks for following up.

Actually its small sliding hernia. Some people are just born with it, its genetic. Some people with hernia have reflux, some never do. And from what i read hernia mimic reflux, heartburn. So people with hernia don't technically have reflux. And PPI dont cure these symtoms they just mask them. The PA that i met up said i dont need to take meds but the doc i saw a week ago said i do need. Doc wants to do endoscopy and put me on different PPI. I dont want to be on PPI again. I feel so much better that i am off PPI. PPI made me feel worse..

I have swallowing problems too. Got my endoscopy results back (today -two weeks after the endoscopy) and I had a very irritated throat from my biopsy results. Prior to the endoscopy I was on PPIs for a month. They didn't help, in fact they messed up my digestive system so I was stuck with swallowing problems and I couldn't get food or water in me due to always feeling full. I stopped after my endoscopy (two weeks ago) and had a burning stomach the first week. Second week I felt less of a burning stomach.

So yes, from my experience you can get rebound. I supplemented with Tums and Gaviscon to deal with the burning, and then switched to DGL licorice.

Told my doctor about my digestive issues with the PPI, his solution was to take 2 PPIs so my throat would heal faster. No concern about my stomach problems.

If you want to cure the problem, I hear good things from the book 'Dropping Acid'. I've been using it for a month and a couple symptoms have gone away, but still no luck with the swallowing. My biggest advice is to avoid chocolate, tomatoes, alcohol, mint, carbonated beverages, eating late, laying down too early after eating, exercising hardcore after eating, and slanting your bed. This should make a difference.

Thank you for the kind words Bythesea! Your kind words have already improved a difficult day. I hope you are doing well too and we can put our GERD behind us forever (with proper diets and lifestyle habits) You are fortunate to have had a wonderful internal medicine doc, as you are right, most doctors dish these pills out like candy. Mine sure did! I don't fault them as that's what they are trained to do, but the system seems like it's stuck in the stone ages.

Hi Bythesa, I'm glad you're feeling much better, and got off those pills. I'm not an anti-pill person, but if you feel much better without them, then it's worth not taking them. I got my problems swallowing in February 2017. It seemed to have gotten worse on the PPI, just because the drugs made me feel boated, and burpy and created a thick mucus that was impossible to swallow. I felt like my stomach was not emptying at all and this was just making everything worse.

The burn sensation started after being off the PPI - I never had it before. I went cold turkey after taking them for a month so I assume it was acid rebound. For the first two days I used gaviscon to supplement, and that killed the burning, but it brought back the mucus. So I stopped and just decided my stomach had to figure it out. The burning stomach stopped after a week, and I would get the burning throat after every meal, however, now I just seem to get it at night only.

I've been off the drugs for 3 weeks and my swallowing is not getting any worse. But I think you're right, and I expect to have this managed by August if I take it slow every day. Thank-you for the great boost of confidence!

I'm getting a esophageal mamontry test, and a ctscan done at the end of May so perhaps I'll find some answers there.