that is strange although more strange that you felt so well just because of the Omeprozole? I found that they certainly stop the crushing chest pain but did nothing for the appetite. But also a lot of us including me fond that there are better times and then its backwards again, it could be this is what you are suffering, i really hope that you get on top of it soon. Are you managing things also with Gaviscon or the like??

Actually, I was on the pill form of carafate for about a little over a week. It was really weird in the sense of I had the left side stomach pain and when I started omerprazole/carafate the pain radiated down to the lower right side abdomen near the upper pelvis area that would flare up around late afternoon for 2-3 hours and my stomach would become normal after that. After a week I felt like I had no problems and was able to eat/drink anything I wanted.

I do wonder if going off of it cold Turkey messed me up.

Not enough information. How long were you taking Omeprazole? Did you quit cold-turkey? Why?

Erm ignore question #2. I really wish I could edit posts.

I took it for 29 days.

Do you have gastritis or have you ever had an endoscopy?

Yes, I had an endoscopy and was diagnosed with

- Erythematous mucosa in antrum, so mild gastritis.

- Hiatal Hernia, a small one not big enough to do surgery on.

A month is a very short time for treatment with a PPI. The standard is 8 weeks, and even then many people won't heal completely. Diet modification is also very important during this time.

I think you may have cut the treatment off too soon and simply returned to your symptoms... talk to you doctor. Good news is, you have mild gastritis - you can get rid of it. It may just take a bit more time. The most important thing is not to let it get any worse!!

You may want to ask your doctor about tapering off the PPI when you're close to the end of treatment so you don't quit cold turkey. And whatever you do, don't eat the irritating foods for a while - you'll be back to square one.

I have a friend with mild gastritis, she's been on PPI for 8 yrs, so now she going to try taking one pill every other day until she can stop completely.

Yeah, I think what just happened was that it was very minor in late April and May and so the medicine masked the symptoms and going off it early and no diet modification just showed it for what it really was. *sigh*

Thanks for the positive support Rosebrook, lol.

treeofstars - remember not to believe everything you read on the internet? take what you read here with a huge grain of salt. Everyone is different. Just because someone out there is taking PPIs for 8 years DOES NOT mean you will, too. Circumstances are different for everyone. It is great news that you previously got better so quickly. It means you will now too, but you need to read up on what to eat. You can't put out a fire with fire. Think of it as a wound (which it is) - bland food, nothing too hot. You wouldn't pour acid (coffee) over it, or rub salt, right? You'll see that it will start to heal... if I hadn't been stupid and ate chili/had coffee again, I would've been so much better now!!! It took me a couple of months to get the pain to go away and I started forgetting... back to square one.. but I have hope that this is just a temporary blip. Look through the archives of this message board and see all the past members who stopped posting. What do you think happened? I reckon they got better... we will, too.