Re: Have you taken any acid suppression medicines?
Originally Posted by
TessA
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Btw, my GP told me Ranitidine has been withdrawn! I believe it caused suicidal thoughts
Ranitidine really helped me and I was very disappointed. But I've totally stopped taking anything and used anti histamines which have strangely enough worked. I haven't had IBS type symptoms since stopping gluten ten years ago. But my acid caused a chronic cough which went away with the allergy tablets. It's funny how you have try different things that you don't expect to work.
They do have different iterations of the ranitidine family still available as these did not get tarred with the same brush - cimetidine and famotidine. Not easy to find in the UK. I gave up. I hated omeprazole which also got rid of a cough another year. But I guess if you have a runny tummy they must be good as they created gridlock in my system!
I think a yeast free diet may be a good move. I also tried that and it was so tough at the time. Yeast is in everything we like to eat. But it's good to give the body a break from the stuff to see if it helps.