Lansoprazole

[Teddy Lop]

Docs prescribed me this as apparently another medication for a completely unrelated consition I'm on, combined with the "serious amount I drink" (reported to him as 3 bottles per week), can attack the stomach lining. I've been on a slightly lower dose of the other for a few months with no issue and rarely have stomach issues ever, once in a blue moon some acid reflux treated with low grade stuff. Such side effects are not listed online and considered "heard of it, but rare" by another person quite experienced.

Lansoprazole though was treated with suprise and alarm by two people who know about it, is generally considered a last resort for those who really need it and shouldn't be played around with by those who don't.

Thoughts?

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philv said:

I was prescribed a strong dose for acid reflux.

After a while i started to notice a sort of humming/vibrating in my lower legs when sleeping at nigh.

I now have this all the time and frequently in lower arms.

On the yellow label website, for unconfirmed side affects, there are a st load of side affects.
And a st load for various neurological conditions.

There's nothing on the paperwork in the box.

And no warning from the doctor.

A neurologist barely acknowledged me when i mentioned the yellow label website.
It's on line by the way and can be added to by patients and medical practitioners alike.

But hey ho, always good to pick up a neurological disease after too many mince pies one christmas.

What website is that?

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pavarotti1980 said:

Teddy Lop said:

Docs prescribed me this as apparently another medication for a completely unrelated consition I'm on, combined with the "serious amount I drink" (reported to him as 3 bottles per week), can attack the stomach lining. I've been on a slightly lower dose of the other for a few months with no issue and rarely have stomach issues ever, once in a blue moon some acid reflux treated with low grade stuff. Such side effects are not listed online and considered "heard of it, but rare" by another person quite experienced.

Lansoprazole though was treated with suprise and alarm by two people who know about it, is generally considered a last resort for those who really need it and shouldn't be played around with by those who don't.

Thoughts?

There is no real alarm in being treated with proton pump inhibitors (lansoprazole, omeprazole, esomprazole etc). It sounds like it it being used prophylactically alongside an NSAID (ibuprofen, naproxen etc) to prevent gastric and duodenal ulcers. NSAIDs will ruin your stomach if used long term and the lansoprazole just protects it.

drug in question isn't an NSAID. I take a couple of naproxen infrequently for gout.

I gather with PPI the body can become addicted, in the sense when you try to stop there can be a big swing back/overreaction (told to me by a physician). My wife used it too (professional singers complaint, only thing that worked) and the docs were reluctant for her to keep taking it long term. Both were surprised it was prescribed so liberally.

For someone with no reported stomach issues I'm wondering if it's something I want to play with, I generally don't want to resort to dugs unless I have to.

The doc might have been a bit of a prat though, he gave me a lecture that my alcohol should be "drink a little every day rather than binging at the weekend". I get why that is, but whoever dreamt it up might want to ingest a few beers themselves and understand why people drink in the first place before trying to inflict idiotic rules on it.