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Old 08-22-2016, 06:21 AM
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Here's a comment .... taking this stuff (as I did) for several years has resulted (unexpectedly to the medical profession) in one's stomach producing more acid to make up for the medication. Weaning off it is difficult - because the stomach has to learn to produce less acid slowly. The technique (under physicians supervision or agreement) is as follows ... (a) take the scripted medication on alternative days and in the intervening days take Rolaids with dinner and then Ranitidine 300 mg (Zantac) an hour before bedtime for about a month or more (b) change to twice a week substituting the Ranitidine (c) continue to reduce and substitute and (d) when 100% on Ranitidine start to substitute Rolaids with the evening meal and again an hour before bedtime and continue this until you are off the Ranitidine and only on the Rolaids (or other antacid) and then slowly reduce those. This is a two to three year process. Remember that allowing acid into your esophagus is a problem because of the correlation between GERD and esophageal cancer.