FAMOTIDINE vs PANTOPRAZOLE

Hi so I'm crying right now because I recently just had my first stool test and blood test for food intolerances after four years of severe IBS symptoms. I was diagnosed yesterday evening with a severe case of C Diff (to the point where I have extensive colon and intestinal damage and am on the verge

**EDIT: I should have been much more clear in my language; I don't think I'm cured of anything, I have only had my symptoms reduced to essentially nothing from where they were previously (I took tums or famotidine 1-2/day to control what I would call mild to moderate acid reflux symptoms).** **I'm v

Still so surreal. I was just another sub member for years, trying everything under the sun for GERD and slowly losing hope. Till I had none. Like many of you, I went through the whole gauntlet - endless tests, endoscopies, pH tests, you name it. When surgery finally became my only option, I was unea

Hi everyone, Just wanted to share something I wish I'd known earlier: I was on esomeprazole (40mg daily) for over 15 years. No one warned me about long-term side effects, especially around nutrient absorption. Over time I developed severe fatigue, brain fog, and eventually iron deficiency anaemia.

Summary of my experience as some tips for LPR sufferers!!! Hey everyone I just came back from my ENT and I finally got diagnosed with LPR!!! It’s been months of me trying to get a doctor to believe me and finally, and ENT at Brigham and women’s hospital in boston Massachusetts diagnosed me. Her name

I’ve been a 25+ year user of omeprazole 10mg daily low dose. Suffer from hiatal hernia, gastritis, GERD, etc. Even with the daily dose of my PPI, I would still get flare ups and the sensation of a ball stuck in my esophagus. It’s been a battle, a very painful one. After recent studies, I decided to

Hi, I'm suffering from gastritis and GERD for about a month, and was prescribed PPI 40mg a day. My symptoms include tight chest pain, sore throat, the feeling of lump in the throat as well as the upper stomach pain, almost like someone punched my stomach. Since I started the medication, I cut down a

I used to take famotidine regularly, and chewable tums/alka seltzer for immediate relief. I recently went on a Disney vacation where my heartburn was absolutely awful, and it was already bad before I went. My mother, whom I love dearly, unfortunately tried to get me to go gluten free for the millio

Update: I’ve been eating some of my trigger foods (caffeine, chocolate, and garlic) just to see what would happen. I normally couldn’t even have these with my 2x/day pantoprazole without being curled up in a ball, but aside from some VERY mild pain under my ribs, I feel amazing! Update #2: I’ve been

Hi i am 25f. Heres my story. When I was 19, my weight was 54, the heaviest ive been in my life. As years go by i started to lose weight more and more up until this year I was 41 kg. I keep losing weight throughout the years because i simply couldnt eat. I also had lots of abdominal pain episodes th

Suffered from bouts of GERD ever since I was a teenager. I had to take pantoprazole 40mg for about three years and was on the waiting list for a sphincter surgery. By chance I started to drink mallow tea (it has to be this mallow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva\_sylvestris) and my reflux has si

Guys, I've been suffering from constant belching since early 2018, then after I went out drinking with friends on the 24th of december 2019 I woke up with a pretty bad throat pain (LPR). I thought I caught a cold but the pain never went away... 6 months after as if the constant throat pain wasn't en

I so wish that it was more widely known that GERD really can be a chronic condition. So many sufferers just have to live with their symptoms day in and day out, with little to no relief. I go through stages of being okay as long as I take my 40mg pantoprazole daily, and then one small trigger (or st

Last year was really tough for me as I was hospitalized twice because of GERD. I couldn't sleep because of the pain and flare-ups, I cried almost everyday and felt very desperate. I was prescribed Pantoprazole and Carafate, took both for 8 months. I lost weight very fast because I could barely eat,

Fuck this disease. I've been panicking for a while thinking I'm gonna die from a heart atrack, I swear it felt so reall! Told my doc about it, and he switched Omeprazole with Pantoprazole and it went away. Made this post just in case someone gets the same symptoms and can't tell why.

Good morning, I wanted to take the time to kinda go through my struggle with GERD, Gastritis, and other gastro esophageal issues and how I've paved the path to improvement and the ceasing of my symptoms It all started at the end of October 2023. I was 27 yeara old. I had, for many years, maintained