Abdominal Pain - Lansoprazole - Excess Stomach Acid

1. rigarella 7 July 2011 at 16:29PM
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   In Jan I went in to hospital from work with abdominal pain that was cutting my breath short. The pain was high up under the ribs like when you have been doing lots of sit ups.

   I had to stay in over night but whilst I was in they gave me morphine for the pain, a few drips, lansoprazole and sent me packing with Omeprazole.

   All seemed to work felt a bit fragile for a few days but seemed to settle back down. The pain started again when my tablets ran out but it wasn't as severe. GP put me on 30mg Lansoprazole x 1 per day and now on 15mg Lansoprazole x 1 per day.

   I am still getting abdominal pain all round my ribs and back in particular, seems more agrevated when I am walking and carrying bags etc.

   GP never really diagnosed it just said excess stomach acid?!

   Has anyone else had/know of anything similar? I have had 6 months of this and am getting to the end of my teather

   Please please any advice would be welcome

   Regards

   Rigarella

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2. H o u s e 7 July 2011 at 17:26PM

   Sounds like classic Peptic Ulcer, you need a Endoscopy to confirm it then (if required) what's called Helicobacter pylori Eradication Therapy

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3. rigarella 8 July 2011 at 13:15PM

   DR Spock ..... This sounds painful, Whats involved?

   I am back to the Doctors on Wednesday.

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4. H o u s e 8 July 2011 at 14:37PM

   Firstly you are lead into the Endoscopy Suite, you are given a numbing throat spray (but you can opt for sedation as well), after a minute or two you jump onto a trolley and lay on your left hand side with your knees slightly raised towards your chest and your arms folded across your chest (like you are laying in bed watching the alarm clock), they take a long flexible Endoscope with a camera and light on the end and then put it down your throat (you have to swallow when you are told) it then slides all the way down into your Stomach and they have a look around (they inflate your Stomach with air), you can watch what's going on on a Monitor (though some Doctors prefer that you don't watch, it depends), anyway if it's there and you are watching you'll see what your problem is. Ulcers look like baldy white patches and they can be small, medium or quite large, or if there is no Ulcer there (or it's healed) you'll see reddened inflamed area / s (called Gastritis), but regardless they'll take some (painless) biopsies from various places for testing. The Gastroscopy as it's called isn't painful it's just a bit grim and can leave you feeling a bit shakey :D The eradication therapy itself is just a 2 week course of medicines, Lansoprazole, Clarithromycin and Amoxicillin and then the bug should be gone and hopefully over the following month or two you'll feel a lot better

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