Having to stop Nexium for pH test. - Acid Reflux / GERD Message Board

TigerGalLE · 07-10-2009, 11:54 AM

Hey everyone. i have to have a pH test done on July 20th... That means I have to stop my Nexium today. I take nexium 40mg twice a day. If I even miss 1 dose I'm miserable for days.... Now I have to be off my nexium for 10 days. What am I going to do? Will I make it?

Hopefully the pH test will help tell us something to better treat my LPR.... I'm so frustrated.

MountainReader · 07-10-2009, 11:08 PM

LPR here too. I've had the 24 hour pH testing done twice in the last several years. It can be tough during the week before. Both times I was on the PPI's twice a day also. Supplemented with Gaviscon.

Do your best to watch to watch your diet and try not to stress too much.

Aryana70 · 07-12-2009, 09:33 AM

I had my third 24hr PH-study done in June, and I have nbeen on Nexium 40mg twice daily as well. THis time around I was off nexium for 12 days, and used gaviscon advance to help with the indigestion, and didn't take any gavisoc from 2 days from the study, and used chewin gum untill the day before.
Strangely enough didn't take the symptoms were that bad, and stomach pains were actually better, but what was even more interesting to me is that this time around that the symptoms were not that bad and I was quite happy but I was definitely found to suffer from acid reflux with demeter scale of 26.1 the longest acid reflux episode was 9minutes?!!! and PH level of 1.1!!
The test is worth it, try gaviscon advance it will help you.

gigi11 · 07-12-2009, 04:53 PM

What is a ph test?

MountainReader · 07-12-2009, 10:18 PM

pH testing measures the amount of acid coming up into the esophagus or throat, depending on the location of the probe. It will measure refluxing events and tell you the acidity, frequency and duration of those events. With a 24 hr pH test, they typically place the probe just above the lower esophael sphincter. This is done through a tube that is placed down your nose into your esophagus and coming out to a computer that you wear on a belt or around your neck for 24 hrs. You keep a log of your refluxing events and note things like when you are prone or when you eat meals. Usually you will have a Manometry before the pH testing. The manometry measures the esophageal pressure and helps them place the probe in the correct position.

There is also a Bravo pH test that is similar, but in a "pill" format so you don't have to have the tube coming out your nose.

If you have LPR, some ENT's will do the pH test with the probe above the upper esophageal sphincter.