Low Stomach Acid

Gwen, just wanted to mention that if you find you have low stomach acid again tomorow and want to get off the PPI, be sure to taper off, every other day for a week, then every third day.... going cold turkey can backfire. Docs sometimes forget to tell us these things. good luck.

Thanks for the reminder!  My plan now is to test every morning and see what's going on.  

Gwen

how did your test go the second day?

So far I have failed the test every day.  (I.e., I haven't belched by the time 5 minutes has passed.)  I've skipped taking my PPI every day - I haven't noticed any ill effects from that.  I've taken Betaine HCl right before meals since yesterday and I actually have started to feel better.  So I think there might be something to this low stomach acid theory.  

I see my surgeon on the 20th, so I'll talk to him about this stuff then.  

(Thanks for following up to ask me!)

thanks for your information. It is interesting to me as I never belch!  I will try the test and see how it goes. I don't take a PPI much anymore. They never seem to help my gut anyway.

When I take the Betaine HCl with meals, food seems to sit a LOT better in my stomach.  Before, it just.. argh.. it's so hard to describe since I don't have a word for how it felt!  It felt like the food was just sitting there, unbuffered, not digesting.  If I can even feel that.  

This is the aggravating thing when I think about talking to the surgeon about it - I have no idea to describe how I've been feeling!