Nexium... Have To Share

[ShrinkyDinkMe22 376]

So I've been on ppi's for a while. Sometimes off and on but for the past 6 year probably more on them then not.

Anyways after my egd back in September my surgeon took me off lansaprozole 15mg and but me on nexium 40mg.

Well recently I've been experiencing heart palpitations and rapid heart rate so bad that I had to do a 30 event monitor and echocardiogram. All checked out ok. The palps increasingly got worse, I also started having brain fog achy joints, dizziness, arm and leg numbness, tightness in chest, extreme anxiety, muscle cramps. I went to urgent care twice thinking I was dying. All checked out fine. Ekg was normal. BP was fine. Thursday night I keep telling hubs that I didn't feel right.

Was kind of dizzy but couldn't really pinpoint what was wrong but I just felt off.

I took my bp and it was 106/60. I'm usually around 120/85.

The bp did go back up. I was then laying in bed trying to figure out what the hell I've done differently the past couple of months. Then it hit me... Nexium.

Then started my Google searches. Which has led me to such sad news. These side effects are very common and most of them are very serious and the doctors just dismiss them. None seem to take into consideration the medications in which you are taking.

I have learned that nexium and other ppi's inhibit Iron absorption, B12 and also depletes your magnesium levels. If you read up on this its staggering.

I'm not saying or diagnosising anyone but I just had to pass this along in case anyone is going through what I went through.

I'm just dumbfounded by this.

Here is just one of at least 35 sites that I have found.

(I apologize I know this is choppy post but I'm typing really fast and I think I missed some stuff I wanted to say).

http://www.askapatient.com/mobile/viewrating.asp?drug=21153&name=NEXIUM&sort=timelength&page=107&PerPage=1