I had a pos on my serum H-Pylori, damn. Dr. wanted to do an endo to take a look and a bx. to send in. I found out that a lot of people have a serum pos. espically in the medical field and I am a nurse. Since I am self pay, did not really want this procedure so we did a blow up the bag and then the air is tested. It seems once you contract this your blood will always be pos., but if it is inactive then a air bag test comes in neg. So if any of you want to save the cost of an endo on the H-Pylori, see if you can get the bag test instead. So now I am all set. I guess maybe with me being a nurse and this being a small hospital and my husband being a physician, I did not have to go thru a lot of the pre-op stuff that a lot of you did. One meeting with surgeon, one with dietician, one more with surgeon to sign consent and get pre-op diet.

Yeah.. I'm on week 2 w/ the 3 meds for h. pylori... I hate taking meds.. I feel like they are making me have reflux issues!!! UGH!!! Congrats and good luck w/ everything!

Yeah - I Had to do that whole regimen for H-pylori and I honestly don't know if I actually had a positive case - since I'm in healthcare and you know

when they retest you- they don't even do the same test- so who ever knows if it was a current active situation or not?