I was prescribed omeprazole to see if my trouble swallowing was due to acid reflux or eosinophilic
esophagitis.I had an endoscopy done and eosinophils were found in the biopsy of my esophagus. I was prescribed omeprazole, 40mg twice a day. The first morning after I took it I had terrible cramping and diarrhea. I thought it might have been something I ate so I continued to take medication. The next morning I woke at 3am with severe cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting. I contacted my Dr and he said this is a very uncommon reaction so instead of trying it for 8 weeks we'll try it for 4 so I continued. Next morning I felt a slight pain in my right hip and figured I must have done something to cause that. By 5 that evening my left hip started hurting. By 630-7 I was barely able to walk. I'm very active and have never had hip pain in my life. I called advice nurse and she set me up with phone appt for the next day. Talked with a different doctor the next day and put me on hold while she looked up further side effects from omeprazole. My diet/life hadn't changed, the only thing new was this medication. She told me since I had only been on it 4 days it was safe to stop immediately. I was feeling so much better by the evening. That was on Tuesday and now it's Friday, and my left hip pain is completely gone, I had a serious limp the day after I stopped, but there is still a slight pain in my right pain when bending forward and diarrhea is getting better but am still having cramps about 15-20 minutes after I eat. I read about people taking it long term but not short term and causing so many side effects. Has anybody else experienced them so quickly and why why why would a Dr tell a patient to continue on a medication when severe symptoms only started after taking it? Has anybody experienced it this fast and if so did you recover completely? I was very clear about absolutely no change I my diet.I was really scared when I couldn't walk. I feel he did not make a good decision when treating me.
Can omeprazole cause joint pain?
Question posted by 1mum on 9 Aug 2019
Last updated on 12 August 2019 by topamaxxed
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sounds like a bad reaction to me, not sure what country you are in but in the UK doctors apparently get big incentives to stick people on PPI's even though they supposedly banned them from doing this i hear they get around this by paying for the doctors to attend seminars in far away countries so it's like a free holiday for them and various other schemes, so no surprise he left you on them. I've been stuck on them for about 10yrs now and my doctor really pushed me to go on them when i didn't even need them, no doctor should give them out they should offer you Ranitidine instead which has no serious side effects but does the same thing. You can buy ranitidine over the counter too, try this perhaps but if it's reflux you have then you might need something with sodium alginate in which floats on top of your stomach acid preventing acid burning, some of the gaviscon products have it in.
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