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H.pylori

Hello.. I have been suffering for years now. I've been belching a lot, feeling burning in my stomach, feeling bloated, and I've lost quite a bit of weight. I did go to the doctor about this, had blood tests and an x-ray with the barrium liquid. Nothing came up. So about 2 months ago I went back just for a physical. When I went back for the results, the first thing he talked to me about was my stomach problems. That's when he told me I tested positive for H.pylori. So I guess he never knew what it was before because he didn't test for it. So I took the triple therapy medication, I almost felt better.. only symptom I still had was the belching. So I finish the meds and the pain comes back. I go back to the doctor and tell him, and asked if I could get another prescription for the meds. Second time around, I seem to feel worse. I have no burning but still have the belching and my stomach just plain hurts. Could there be something else wrong?
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i had h pylori 3 times. age 9 18 19

i had the EGD 3 Times  They did the biaxin prolisec 14 day treatment

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Does anyone have stomach cancer from h pylori?
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I read your post and assume you had h pylori, did you and did you take the treatment? How was thetreatment? iHAVE MODERATE gastritis from a few days of taking a antiinflammatory medicine for hip bursitis. Prior to thois no aspirin alcholcol, no stomach problems ever, just got sick and could not eat with nauesa from the anti inflammatory meds. The biospy came back with gastritis and h pylori . I am scared to take the prev pak for the side effects and if my stomach is already moderate to severe inflammammed i reason this would make my stomach worse.. The doctor can not beleive I am nopt wiling to treyta the h pylori I had no uclers and look what just a few days of anti inflammatory did to my stomach now i am on nexium for 8 weeks on week 5 and eat better but not great and still feel nauesa at times, I wish i could talk with someone who did not treat their h pylori and if how long for this gasrtistis to heal. Any thoughts, pHylica
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To summarize, the problem is not with acid, it is with the stomach wall being damaged from h.Pylori and antibiotics, for the stomach to repair you need to absord proteins and glutamic acid which produces mucosa, this is where most people and doctors mess up.
The stomach can not break down food properly to unlock these proteins which are crucial for repair without normal acidity levels.
Stick with a normal healthy diet, and you will repair, if you turn to acid blockers, you will start a chain of events that will make your stomach problems worsen and your health will spiral down and you will end up like 80% of the people in these forums, where the doctors can offer no explanation for the increasing stomach problems and they will just presribe more drugs on top and so on.

The after effects of what you have gone through can leave the stomach in a weakened state, i know what it feels like, this is normal and the doctors probably warned you this would happen, it would get worse before it gets better, you just had a double does of anti biotics, one treatment is bad enough, treat your stomach as you should, treat it as something just recovering from a very nasty ordeal, gently nurse your stomach back to health, these things take time. Protein drinks with essential amino acids can promote repair and recovery but they will be difficult to digest in the meantime, so only take in very small amounts.

I am living proof that i know what i am talking about, i did put my money where my mouth is and now i purely try to help others who are in the same sitaution i was, or i try to stop those who are about to go down that same road, that is not a road you want to go down.
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http://www.mamashealth.com/stomach/gastritis.asp

Some articles say gastritis can be caused by excess stomach acid, fact is your stomach is design to not be bothered by acid(fact) all excess acid can do is digest food faster, the body naturally produces more acid when needed because some foods need it, this is to speed up gastric emptying, excess acid is only a problem when it enters the esophagus(fact), people get stomach ache belching when they have low acid levels which causes delayed gastric emptying.

H.Pylori causes inflammation of the stomach wall, this is what causes Gastritis not excess stomach acid, the antobiotics can really aggrevate the stomach, you stomach needs time to recover, achieve this with a light diet, your stomach wall will still be weak.

Do not under any circumstances take any acid neutralizing medication unless you have acid jumping into your esophagus in which case you need to protect the esophagus and not neutralize the acid, even then i would suggest that reflux would be caused by delayed gastric emptying which is more likely low stomach acids, so the real cure is more stomach acid.

http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?id=7271&T=CFIDS_FM
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In many cases, the presence of H. pylori sets off a chain of events that results in the production of too much acid and the development of gastritis. You may need to discuss taking some acid reduction meds and changing your diet for awhile to try to get things back on track again.

And depending on the antibiotics you took, you may want to consider taking some probiotics to try to offset any problems those medications could have precipitated.
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