Your experience with Prilosec OTC for GERD or LPR - Acid Reflux / GERD Message Board

s'nick · 12-04-2006, 04:44 PM

Thanks in advance for responding. This is my first ever post at HealthBoards.com.

15 months ago I had asthmatic symptoms. I saw an ENT and he saw puss and prescribed antibiotics. It kind of helped but didn't really. Chest xray was fine.

He sent me to have a barium swallow. Hiatal hernia was present. Peristalsis (the swallow reflex) was incomplete. I didn't swallow food all the way down. GERD was diagnosed.

Then I went to a GI for endoscopy on both ends. Some damage in the esophagus. He prescribed Nexium. EXPENSIVE!!! and not covered by my health plan. I have decided to self diagnose myself with LPR. Last week was bad -- sore throat, really hurt to talk (and I'm a high school teacher so I talk for a living).

I read in many posts that people find that Prilosec OTC does not work, that it is crap. I've talked with doctor friends who suggest that the PPI's are all the same. Any thoughts on Prilosec OTC? I've been taking them 1 or 2 a day foir some time now. I hock up white foamy spit and in the morning really thick mucous.

And my knee is giving me arthritis pain bad. Which anti-inflammatory would I do well to use in view of my reflux condition?

These kind of forums are amazing. Thanks again and good luck with your health.

ispyrebel · 12-04-2006, 06:30 PM

It doesnt work for me at all.
I can only take Nexium or Previcid.

Ish · 12-04-2006, 09:53 PM

Hi

I broke out in hives when I tried Prilosec, so now I am trying Nexium.

What works for one may not work for another.

If Prilosec OTC works for you that is great!

Ish

Mike137100 · 12-05-2006, 07:47 AM

Can I ask you if you had the knee pain before or after starting the Prilosec? For me PPI's give me bad joint and muscle pain and make me extremely tired.

aswander · 12-05-2006, 09:34 AM

I have severe LPR for 4 years. I have tried every PPI out there, and only Nexium, 40 mg, 2 pills in the morning, works for me. I tried Prilosec OTC for a 4 month period, and very like you, I developed nasty foamy spit, and I would spend 1 hour every morning after getting up hocking up thick sticky mucous into the sink. I went back to Nexium and got better again in 1 week.

Prilosec OTC is crap if you have LPR. See the old thread on it.