Gastritis Support Group

Gastritis is a medical term for inflammation of the lining of the stomach. It means that white blood cells move into the wall of the stomach as a response to some type of injury. Gastritis has many underlying causes, from infection with the bacterium H. pylori, bile reflux, or excessive consumption of alcohol or certain foods or drugs like aspirin.

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deleted_user 04/02/2012

Just wondering how you guys take your PPI and if there's any difference in effectiveness depending on how you take it.

For instance one dose daily morning or evening or divided doses during the day?

deleted_user 04/03/2012

I used to take Omeprazole 20mg in the morning & 20mg at bedtime.

However I have been able to get down to jut 20mg in the morning over the last few weeks. (I also take 300mg Ranitidine at bedtime).

I find my Omeprazole to be massively more effective taken on an empty stomach when I wake up (take with LOADS of water) then don't eat for about an hour afterwards.

I read on Wikipedia that Omeprazole is more effective taken without food, but Ranitidine is unaffected by whether it is taken with food or not.

The other thing that might be useful is this article about acid production...

http://www.aamcc.net/cap1.htm

I'm feeling confident I'll be able to get off the ppi soon.

deleted_user 04/03/2012

I was on 2 in the am and carafrate at night, however I could tell a difference. They try it a bunch of different ways, but give it a good couple weeks and see how you feel. Consider talking to your doctor and switching it up then if you feel it is not effective. Sometimes it is how you take it and sometimes it is just not the right PPI for you too.

deleted_user 04/03/2012

hi, like kayella i take 40mg omeprazole in the morning & 300mg ranitidine at bedtime along with 2 spoons of gaviscon but even with the ppis you can still get bad flare ups try to keep your stress levels down as the more you stress the more acid your stomach produces

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