JimL Posted May 4, 2019 Report Share Posted May 4, 2019 Had an EGD and Colonoscopy yesterday. GI issues were the first symptoms I had of a problem, last june, late May. POTS symptoms started around christmas. Originally, they did an EGD and found H Pylori and gastritis. Treated it, but the symptopms came back. With yesterday's procedure, I had two polyps and still have gastritis. Understand I am taking esomeprosole and sucralfate. I have to wonder if I have some sort of chronic infection that is causing these problems. H Pylori can cause all sorts of problems: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4017036/ BTW, sorry I haven't been as active here. I have further cervical fusion March 27. C2-4. I had C4-6 done in 2012. I had a lot of swallowing issues for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted May 5, 2019 Report Share Posted May 5, 2019 Sorry @JimL about all of your issues. I too had severe stomach problems - had H.Pylori treated twice but later - after developing POTS - had esophagitis, Barrett's Esophagitis, GERD and Duodenitis - supposedly all caused by hyperPOTS and adrenaline surges. This was when I was at my worst POTS wise. Since then I have been taking Pantoprazole twice daily, Carafate and Ranitidine, and for a while GI cocktail as needed. This seemed to have significantly improved my symptoms so that today all I use is Pantoprazole - otherwise adjustments to my diet and eating habits seem to work well. I am a lot better and even have been gaining weight. My last EGD - 6 months ago - showed stomach polyps as well but no more gastritis. I had to cut out all acidic foods and juices due to interstitial cystitis and this seems to also have improved my GI issues. Have you seen a nutritionist or dietician for advice as to what foods to avoid? I did and it apparently made a big difference. Best wishes to you - hang in there!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimL Posted May 5, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2019 3 hours ago, Pistol said: Sorry @JimL about all of your issues. I too had severe stomach problems - had H.Pylori treated twice but later - after developing POTS - had esophagitis, Barrett's Esophagitis, GERD and Duodenitis - supposedly all caused by hyperPOTS and adrenaline surges. This was when I was at my worst POTS wise. Since then I have been taking Pantoprazole twice daily, Carafate and Ranitidine, and for a while GI cocktail as needed. This seemed to have significantly improved my symptoms so that today all I use is Pantoprazole - otherwise adjustments to my diet and eating habits seem to work well. I am a lot better and even have been gaining weight. My last EGD - 6 months ago - showed stomach polyps as well but no more gastritis. I had to cut out all acidic foods and juices due to interstitial cystitis and this seems to also have improved my GI issues. Have you seen a nutritionist or dietician for advice as to what foods to avoid? I did and it apparently made a big difference. Best wishes to you - hang in there!!!! I haven't seen a nutritionist. Up until last fall, I had been doing keto. I have since gone normal diet and it's made no difference. It seems like some things aggravate it, but it's hard to tell some times. I was taking pantoprazole twice a day at one point and it didn't get rid of it and long term use of PPI's is bad. I have an appointment with Todd Levine for the POTS stuff on the 21st. I hope he can figure all this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimL Posted May 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2019 On 5/4/2019 at 5:12 PM, Pistol said: Sorry @JimL about all of your issues. I too had severe stomach problems - had H.Pylori treated twice but later - after developing POTS - had esophagitis, Barrett's Esophagitis, GERD and Duodenitis - supposedly all caused by hyperPOTS and adrenaline surges. This was when I was at my worst POTS wise. Since then I have been taking Pantoprazole twice daily, Carafate and Ranitidine, and for a while GI cocktail as needed. This seemed to have significantly improved my symptoms so that today all I use is Pantoprazole - otherwise adjustments to my diet and eating habits seem to work well. I am a lot better and even have been gaining weight. My last EGD - 6 months ago - showed stomach polyps as well but no more gastritis. I had to cut out all acidic foods and juices due to interstitial cystitis and this seems to also have improved my GI issues. Have you seen a nutritionist or dietician for advice as to what foods to avoid? I did and it apparently made a big difference. Best wishes to you - hang in there!!!! Went on the GI docs portal today and it said I have Chronic atrophic gastritis without bleeding. That doesn't sound good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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