Omerprazole

It's Barrett's - I had it too. The PPI's are acid blockers. So they stop acid from being produced. He's probably doing the endoscopy to see if it's Barrett's and might then move you to Nexium or something like that, if he feels it's necessary. Nexium fixes esophageal damage done from the acid. But Omeprazole is very good too to help with the acid reflux/GERD. If there is no damage, you may not need the Nexium. As for the cancer, I don't really know what can/cannot cause it. I was pre-cancerous and have fully recovered. Sadly, my dad wasn't so lucky and passed at 82 from esophageal cancer. I wouldn't want you to imagine though that it's going to happen to you. I have fully recovered, like I said. Good luck!!

The nexium will reverse the Garretts? That's interesting. So it's changing the esophagus cells that have changed to stomach cells, back to esophagus cells?

I started reading about laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication. This is where they wrap your stomach around your esophagus.

Just thinking about that procedure, it seems amazing to me that it actually works. How long do those staples that they put in there actually stay put? Doesn't your body want to reject them?

I also wonder how you even get the food into your stomach. Couldn't it get stuck?

I have lyme disease, and I read somewhere that sometimes Lyme causes GERD because the spirochetes attack the nerve that controls that sphincter of your stomach, and your ability to swallow. My doctor said that was nonsense.