Over the counter.. Omeprazole

[Overdriven]

So, I took people's advise and went to see my Doctor today, who was a complete tosspot, and they've stuck me on something called "Omeprazole" now, I've checked this out and it looks pretty uhm, odd.

It's to do with the stomach over-producing stomach acid and causing a bacteria to give stomach/lower intestine ulcers

I'm going to pick it up this weekend, and start taking it the day I get back from my holiday, as you're not meant to drink with it it's going to cause me problems, as where I go everyone drinks with food. so yeah, there's the update on the shite I was going through.

Last year, Fluxocillin.
This year, Omeprazole.
Next year, Vicodin.

Omeprazole may cause side effects. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are severe or do not go away:

* stomach pain
* diarrhea
* constipation
* dizziness
* cough
* back pain

Some side effects can be serious. If you experience any of these symptoms, call your doctor immediately:

* rash
* hives
* itching
* swelling of the face, throat, tongue, lips, eyes, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs
* difficulty breathing or swallowing
* hoarseness
* seizures
* muscle spasms, tightening, aching, or cramping
* burning or tingling of the lips, tongue, hands, or feet

Omeprazole may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while taking this medication.

 

[crispy]

Was he sure that it was not just a once in a year black poop and youre getting treated for nothing?

 

[TdC]

* burning or tingling of the lips, tongue, hands, or feet

holy crap it sets you on FIRE!!!!1

 

[Marc]

I have been prescribed it a few times.

Its your basic cookie cutter medication for stomach problems.

I never had any side effects from it

 

[Rubric]

I love side effects.

Parecetamol,

Side effects, May cause headaches. WTF!

 

[Overdriven]

Marc, does it actually work then?

 

[DocWolfe]

The majority of drugs say that in the side effects.

 

[Cadelin]

I have been on Omeprazole before. I had a look but I couldn't find what you were/are suffering from overdriven so it would be hard to tell you if it works.

In my particular case it did work as well as could be expected.

 

[Overdriven]

Well, they say I might have a stomach ulser because of weight loss and diet change, strong ass stomach pain (shooting pains) and pain near my appendix. SO they stuck me on that.

 

[Downanael]

That reminds me from some medicine i took and it had the following gem:

"1 out of 1000 testers had following symptons"

Headache,back pains,death ,sleepyness and so on

 

[Cadelin]

Well, they say I might have a stomach ulser because of weight loss and diet change, strong ass stomach pain (shooting pains) and pain near my appendix. SO they stuck me on that.

Define "they"? Do you mean a GP or a specialist Gastroenterologist?

The trouble with problems associated with your stomach is that it can be a huge range of things causing the problem and it is often a combination of things. Its often a case of finding out what helps the most and that will be different for people even with very similar problems. While all drugs can have side effects Omeprazole is not one you need to worry about.

 

[Overdriven]

My GP.

 

[tris-]

i was on some tabs, the side effects of which involve schizophrenia and suicidal tendancies!

 

[swords]

It should be fine, it's one of AstraZenecas proton pump inhibitors. They're basically the (relatively, i'm stretching it a bit) newer shinier version of older anti-acid drugs.
They're not antimicrobial but can be given in a combined form with an antibiotic for H.pylori infection.
They hand out PPIs like candy so I doubt side effects are common with the standard dosages.

 

[Maeloch]

Tell him you can't sleep and get somethign u can get whacked off.

 

[kiliarien]

To address your fears, I am currently on Omeprazole too for a suspected Hiatus Hernia (I get to have an endoscopy at the hospital soon - joy of joys ).

I also read the stuff about possible side effects and the GP's (and the gastroenterologist I have already seen) have said it's the same as always; legal jargon used to cover their ass - side effects are extremely rare.

I have been told by all of the above that drinking is not actually an issue with the drug, merely that if you have stomach issues drinking isn't advised in large quantities anyway. So feel safe there - I've had three months of the drug and have drunk quite merrily (sometimes too merrily! ).

As swords has mentioned, it's like the firt step drug to help you with a wide range of stomach conditions and isn't actually too 'hardcore' on the drugs scale.

Hope this helps and you feel better for hearing it.

 

[Tilda]

I'm sorry, are you serious?

You went to your GP with a problem, he stuck you on Omezaprole and now you've come to FH to ask if you should take them?
What the fuck?

He's given you Omezaprole which is a PPI, a proton pump inhibitor, which helps with stomach acid problems as it reduces the amount. Which would fix your problems if you had an ulcer. Medicine isn't an exact science, a lot of diagnoses are made by elimination, remove the most likley cause of symptons, and if they still persist, then its something else.

All medication has side effects, you can't buy a box of anything from a chemist without having about 1000 side effects listed. Get over it, most of them are rare.
Heck even placebo's have side effects and thats when you're not giving patients active compounds.

Take the damn pills and do as your Dr said. If you don't like your Dr, go to someone else.

 

[Overdriven]

Tilda, no no no, I was just updating the situation. If you look at a previous thread (A few weeks ago) I said I was having stomach issues and I just wanted to see what people said, no need to go mental O_O I'm going to take them regardless, but I wanted to see what some people said anyway, I allways try to check what Doctors feed me. Also, the Doc wasn't British, has a STRONG indian accent and neither myself or my parent could read the perscription note. We had to call and ask their office what they wrote. So... CALM!

@Kili: Cheers for that, and eeeeep. I was supposedly meant to have one last year, but what ever I had then healed up NOT A FUN EXPERIENCE. Tubes in there (Which I had.. TWICE) makes baby Jesus cry. Least fun thing in the world.
@Others: Cheers for responces Nice that you care.

 

[kiliarien]

I'm sorry, are you serious?

You went to your GP with a problem, he stuck you on Omezaprole and now you've come to FH to ask if you should take them?
What the fuck?

He's given you Omezaprole which is a PPI, a proton pump inhibitor, which helps with stomach acid problems as it reduces the amount. Which would fix your problems if you had an ulcer. Medicine isn't an exact science, a lot of diagnoses are made by elimination, remove the most likley cause of symptons, and if they still persist, then its something else.

All medication has side effects, you can't buy a box of anything from a chemist without having about 1000 side effects listed. Get over it, most of them are rare.
Heck even placebo's have side effects and thats when you're not giving patients active compounds.

Take the damn pills and do as your Dr said. If you don't like your Dr, go to someone else.

See your point in some ways there Tild - especially about medicine being about elimination, which ofc is also the most economic way of a medical system, so people don't get unnecessary and expensive drugs or procedures.

The last statements suggest though if you don't like what someone says, go somewhere else - are the medical bods trained for a reason? Else it turns into a medical shopping trip. Something at least in Britain is hard on the NHS, which is a good thing. I at least am very grateful of a system that has a decent medical system and feel very lucky to not living in an LEDC.

All hail those medical peeps who actually work their ass off for us. :worthy::worthy:

 

[Tilda]

Overdriven, ok Sorry if I was a little animated

kiliarien, They are trained for a reason, and in a perfect world, given a certain situation every GP would do the same thing. However its not a perfect world, and if overdriven is having problems getting on with his GP then its worth switching. Someone you dont get on with, is someone you're less likely to open up to about symptoms.

 

[Marc]

Marc, does it actually work then?

It worked for me dude, but my gf was also prescribed it for something different, but it didnt work for her.

 

[Marc]

I'm sorry, are you serious?

You went to your GP with a problem, he stuck you on Omezaprole and now you've come to FH to ask if you should take them?
What the fuck?

He's given you Omezaprole which is a PPI, a proton pump inhibitor, which helps with stomach acid problems as it reduces the amount. Which would fix your problems if you had an ulcer. Medicine isn't an exact science, a lot of diagnoses are made by elimination, remove the most likley cause of symptons, and if they still persist, then its something else.

All medication has side effects, you can't buy a box of anything from a chemist without having about 1000 side effects listed. Get over it, most of them are rare.
Heck even placebo's have side effects and thats when you're not giving patients active compounds.

Take the damn pills and do as your Dr said. If you don't like your Dr, go to someone else.

Bad day at work or what?

 

[kirennia]

I'm no GP but I'd still say be careful mate. I say this because due to my stomach acid issues, I was prescribed Lanzoprazole (said I might have a stomach ulcer) which whenever I needed one, I took it and it went away. A few weeks later they started to not work as well and it was taking longer and longer for the effects to nullify. After a while I thought screw this so I stopped taking them, by which time my acid refluxes were 10 times worse.

I was worried so I went to the doctors again and he simply said continue taking them but instead, start taking them at regular times as well to nullify the pain. I walked away astonished and decided to hold off and only keep them for very needed occasions, using mints instead when smaller attacks happened.

Now a few years down the line I take one or two a fortnight and generally don't have problems unless I've been out drinking a few nights in a row or have eaten microwave meals but the problem is much much worse ever since I started to take the prescribed drugs.

It may sound different because we were prescribed different drugs (same family) but I say this because if you take them too often, you may well end up in the same boat as me. Because they're a sort of acid relaxant/nullifier or whatever the word is, your body ends up producing more to compensate, much the same as any drugs. E.g. humans now becoming more immune to penacillin (sp?).

I'd say do as the doctor says because it very much will clear up stomach ulcers but I'd also say that while you're doing the course, eat healthily to make sure you aren't going to produce excess acid and as soon as the course is up, be wary if they say to continue it. I say this because it's a nasty thing to have for the rest of your life...

Oh and if you find after the course of drugs has finished you start getting acid refluxes, take the occasional mint (again, don't overdo it else your body will try to compensate again) and drink milk. Both of those things will hold off smaller attacks. If you start getting larger attacks you may have to go back though else risk permanent damage to your oesophagus (sp?).

 

[Rubric]

Bad day at work or what?

Nah fucking idiot tbh.

 

[Bahumat]

Just drink a pint of semen before going to bed for 2 weeks. If you're not cured by then, I'll get you a new stomach.

 

[Corran]

Freddyshouse is always the place to go for advice.... the internet is a right bastard though when you undergoing tests for problems.

I been suffering with various problems for years now, got to the stage where fatigue and other symptons got too much to deal with again (had a cuople years not to bad so lived with it.)

See the consultant "hmm right yes.. well we done the basic tests and tehy fine... there a couple of rare illnesses you could have going by your symptons, i think i test you for them"

So testing for them at the moment, ofcourse i got the labels that need to be handed in with samples that have the names of the 2 rare illnesses they want to check.. so I do what any wise person does after the doctor tells you "I test you for this, nothing to worry about". Look it up on the net.... result "Wtf i do that for!?"

Prognosis

* Prognosis is better than for adenocarcinomas at similar sites
* Median survival is 5 to 8 years
* For surgically resectable tumours 10-year survival rates of more than 60% have been reported

Think i better of not knowing what i have then being told got that... I just fail to mention this snippet of information to the misses who stressed enough as is!