Prilosec/Omeprazole

[majorsmama 91]

My surgeon has told me that I need to be on Omeprazole (Prilosec) for a year post-op to promote the healing of my new stomach. From what I'm reading online, a lot of surgeons only have their patients take it for as little as 3 days, up to 3 months. I plan to follow my surgeons orders obviously, but just wanted to hear others experience. How long were you told to take it, if at all?

[IamKe69 18]

My surgeon has told me that I need to be on Omeprazole (Prilosec) for a year post-op to promote the healing of my new stomach. From what I'm reading online, a lot of surgeons only have their patients take it for as little as 3 days, up to 3 months. I plan to follow my surgeons orders obviously, but just wanted to hear others experience. How long were you told to take it, if at all?

My surgeon only has me taking it for three months.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

My surgeon put me on pantoprazole (Protonix) for 3 months. It's a PPI.

I'm back on ranitidine now -- 40 mg twice a day (which is what I was on pre-op).

[Jerry Currie 3]

I really didn't want to take it at all. My surgeon cut mine to 3 months because I put up a stink.

[slvarltx 332]

1 month here. No issues except for 1 day I had heartburn...took an OTC PPI for one day and was fine again.

[samelton68 64]

Mine said I would be on it for the rest of my life, I thought no way, stopped taking it after 4 months and now 1 1/2 years out I found I had to start it again

[MIMISAN 404]

I take Omeprazole everyday and have for 10 years. Won't bother me to continue it as long as I can get rid of some of my other meds.

[hockeyfan7 249]

I absolutely would refuse to take it ever and the surgeon would have to figure something else out.

I used to take Omeprozole every day and had taken it for a couple of years. Back in 2011 I was at my sister-in-law's parents' house and I fell off the bottom porch step. I broke the scaphoid bone in my left wrist. I had to have surgery to have a pin inserted and I had to wear a cast for 12 weeks.

The orthopedic surgeon was shocked I broke that bone. I was 48 at the time and normally that bone is extremely rarely broken in women especially at my age. The typical break comes from a 20 something guy while he's doing extreme sports.

We reported it to the FDA and not too long after that the FDA came out with a black box warning on Omeprozole that it can cause broken bones in women. I will NEVER take that again.

[ssflbelle 829]

Ok I am a newbie. WIll be one month tomorrow on a supervised diet. Why would I need to take this Omeprazole (Prilosec)? Is it for heartburn and why would there be heartburn if we are hardly eating the first 3 months? Is the heartburn really that bad that you have to take meds for it? Many many years ago I use to have acid reflux that got in my throat at night and the ranitidine helped. That acid burning in my throat was horrible, I would hate to think I will have that feeling again. Hockeyfan that was terrible what happened to you. If you don'tus Prilosec what do you take?

[shellyd88 463]

My surgeon put me on it for 90 days prior to surgery and 90 days after when my RX ran out within 24 hours I had such reflux woke up from a sound sleep felt like someone lit a fire in my throat that's never happened to me in my life ever was horrible chewed like 4 tums to put out the "fire" they said I had a hiatal hernia which was supposedly repaired I can't seem to get by without it had to go buy over the counter stuff I told the np at surgeons office they don't seem to be concerned I was told well that happens to some ppl

[wagers0990 0]

My surgeon also told me for the rest of my life.