Andre Garcia

Linzess is for chronic idiopathic constipation...so is Trulance.

Haven't tried Tagamet in over 10 years because it didn't help me pre-op with heartburn I used to suffer from, but I guess I could try it and Zantac and see if they help me wean off this poison (Prilosec).

Yes, I tried taking Pepcid and experienced burning intestinal pains anyway. At one point I was up to 40mg Pepcid with no relief.

I am shocked to see that there isn't a single post regarding Trulance with the number of people that suffer from constipation after WLS. Please sound off here if you have any experience with constipation and taking Trulance. After taking Linzess for three weeks, I started gaining weight and there was inflammation found in my throat...I was subsequently diagnosed with hypothyroidism and prescribed Levothyroxine 50mcg. The Trulance goes to work within 2 hours of taking it, but causes me some pretty severe diarrhea. I take my Levothyroxine first thing in the morning and my Trulance when I get home from work. Has anyone here had any success with Trulance, and if so, were you able to get off of it? Did your GI return to normal or were you still constipated after stopping Trulance (if that's what you did)? Thanks!

So...I had a perforated intestine 3 months after having RNY...RNY was Nov 2016 and perforated intestine was late February 2017...well over a year ago. I tried 3 times to wean off Prilosec, each time trying something different. The pain got so bad, I nearly went into the ER, but met with my surgeon instead. He recommended I go back on the half dose of Prilosec until November for my two year checkup, and then we would revisit things. ry He also ordered a fresh set of labs to see how I was doing with vitamins, minerals, and other things. In the meantime, I went back on a full dose of Prilosec for the last few days, and sure enough, the intestinal pain is completely gone. I'm going to cut down to 50% again next week...I figured full dose for now to give my intestines some time to heal from whatever I had put them through on a 25% dose. I think one challenge I have is that I was water fasting while also trying to wean off of Prilosec...next time I try, I won't drink coffee or drink wine nor fast at all so I don't trigger things that could increase my acidity. Ugh.

I have had both a colonoscopy and endoscopy and nothing but a very small hiatal hernia was found (too small to recommend operating on it). I don't have acid coming up on me at all...no burning in my stomach. It's literally a burning sensation in the upper left and upper right quadrants of my abdomen, right below my diaphragm (chest cavity).

Hey everyone...I could really use some help. I'm on my third time trying to wean myself off Prilosec and doctors so far have been pretty useless. None of their directions have worked. After learning that omeprazole takes about 45 days to be gone from your body, I decided to take the phased approach to withdrawal to another level. The first two times, I tried doing exactly what my surgeon suggested, which was to start taking 20mg every other day for a week, then every two days for a week, then every three days for a couple weeks, and then stop alltogether. When I tried stopping, within a few days I started experiencing burning sensations in my intestines. Not my stomach...but my actual intestines. I would up giving in and going back on 20Mg Prilosec every day. A couple months went by and tried for my second time. This time I tried a similar method, but tried to use 20Mg Pepcid and the occasional Tums...that didnt' work either. The pain was unbearable. For my third attempt, I took the drawn out pill cutting approach to really give my body time to adjust. For two months, I was on half a dose (10mg) without issue, then on June 29, I dropped down to 1 quarter pill (5mg), and that's when the trouble started. By the 9th day on 5mg, I started feeling pain in my intestines. The last few nights, I've been getting up because the pain is too intense and having to drink water and Pepcid to try and calm my intestines down...nighttime has been the worst just recently. Now we are in August and I have basically a month before I'm supposed to stop taking it completely, but I'm afraid I'm going to have an ulcer or perforation somewhere in my GI tract (which has already happened to me once--nearly killed me). Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how did you stop taking Prilosec without all this pain? Please...I'm desperate for answers.