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Q: Is Nexium actually cocaine?
I was looking online and found an intersting post that nexium is actually cocaine with purple food coloring. Has anyone else heard about this? And is it true?

A: Nexium is actually “esomeprazole magnesium.” No it has nothing to do with cocaine. :)

Q: Medical Diagnosis -> Symptoms: Acid Reflux and Bloody stool. What could it be?
Medical Diagnosis -> Symptoms: Acid Reflux and Bloody stool. What could it be?
A good friend of mine called me up the other day and she told me that about 2 years ago she was diagnosed with Acid Reflux disease, she said she went for an Upper GI and all and it confirmed it, she was put on Prevacid and when that didn;t work she began using Nexium, that put a stop to it after taking only 1/2 of the first perscibed bottle. Now she tells me she has found bood in her stool (fecies) and she is worried something may be wrong. I said “Julie you should see a doctor” but she said she was too embarrassed. What could she have? I looked around online with her and we didn’t find anything, but the symptoms sound to me like a stomach ulcer or IBS or some other problem with her stomach or intestines. Does anyone know what she could have? Do you think it’s serious? What do you know about it?

A: ulcerated collitus, it has something to do with your colon. My friend has this she has to get colonoscamys and take meds. sorry for the spelling those are hard words.

Q: What is up with this???
If you order say Nexium from drugstore.com, or any online medicne selling place for that matter, with no prescription are you really getting what you ordered? Because I have really bad heart burn, but I absolutely hate going to the dr’s I have always been this way. but i dont want to risk taking some forigen med either so yea…any advice would help!

A: Any prescription drug ordered without a prescription is a gamble. If they are a reputable distributor, and FDA appoved, they will require a prescription. Nexium may not be all that is needed. Do yourself a favor and see a doctor, There are a lot of things that can cause heartburn symptoms including heart problems. Respect yourself and get a good checkup.

Q: panic attacks/anxiety/gagging reflex/ why me…?
i have vry bad gerd/acid reflux.. or whatever the hell. i’m very irritated and upset that my health had to turn out this way. since very young, ive had the gag reflex during stress, social outings, pressure, and foods. ive been on many medications. prevacid, zantac, peptid ac, and currently on cvs brand med… all of which do not work for me anymore.
i am very … i dont know. ive been researching online for anxiety/panic attack reducers, acupunctures and such. i go to the doctor with this buthe prescribes the same thing..says its just all in the mind and psychological.. things i am tired of hearing becuse he and my family tells me to think lightly and all that. but let me tell you, actions speak louder than words. its not easy to control anxiety.
the doctor said i m too young to be on certain anxiety medications.. im 19 btw, & that i should just keep calm.
i dont know what to do anymore. my last resources are.. prilosec and nexium. i guess..but how much is nexium? neone w/ sim. prob?

A: First of all, I think you should consider seeing another doctor. If someone’s answer is to not find a solution to the issue, either by medication or other modalities of treatment, then just say “Adios.” This is one of the main reasons I get new patients in my practice every day — the inability for the provider to listen and offer explanation.

So…

Sounds like you’ve tried all the over-the-counter H2 antagonists (Zantac & Pepcid) and even one of the PPIs (Prevacid), but without relief. I do, however, think you should at least try another before folding on the acid reflux treatment. Nexium is a good one, and I often prescribe it as well as Protonix and Aciphex. Just remember, some work better on some people, than just a one-size-fits-all approach. Never assume that just because one of the PPIs did not work, that all of them won’t. That’s just not reality. Some of my patients will have to try 2-4 different ones until something works. As well, sometimes I’ll have the patient take their PPI in the morning, and a couple of Zantac 75 mg. tabs at night (just for broad coverage).

As for the anxiety….

Yes, in your mind — INDEED!! But NOT as though you can control it by will, correct? You need to talk to someone that has a better approach with medications for treating this problem, obviously. I wouldn’t go with accupunctures – basically because I don’t think you’re going to get much out of it. The two more common medications I use for this, citing that Anxiety almost ALWAYS goes hand-in-hand with depression would be either ZOLOFT (which can take 4-6 weeks for maximum effect) or LEXAPRO (which can take 2-4 weeks for effect). In the meantime, a bit of Xanax or Klonopin may be useful, but must be watched for addiction potential. If you don’t have a history of drug abuse or alcoholism, then I think you’ll be safe.

Remember, you no more ASKED to feel the way you do, than you can suddenly control it. Seems to me that medication is the ONLY answer here, and you need someone who will be willing to provide good/sound medical advise.

I hope this helps.

Best of luck to you!

Q: Duodenal Peptic Ulcers?
I’ve been diagnosed with duodenal peptic ulcer caused by H. Plylori about 4 months ago and went to the hospital b/c the ulcer was bleeding, I used to drink somewhat heavily on the weekends (4-6 drinks Friday and Saturday night) and since I’ve been diangosed, I’ve laid off alcohol completely (not even a drop), and I’ve been taking anti acids like nexium, Proilosec OTC somewhat regularly. I want to start drinking a little bit again (1 to 3 drinks in a month) but I don’t know if that will make my ulcer come back again. I’ve read many many articles online some stating that alchol can’t cause ulcers and many stating the opposite. I’m just really confused. Any professional opinions would help me.

A: To be safe, ask your doctor. There is a condition called alcohol related gastritis.

Q: How much FeSo4 to take each day?
So I just found out that I have iron defficiancy anemia. My doctor perscribed Nexium for a small non-bleeding ulcer that he discovered, and he perscribe FeSo4 as an iron suppliment. I filled the prescriptions after 5 on Friday. Come to find out, he accidently perscribed me 3 nexium instead of 30. And, the instructions for th FeSo4 say to take 3 pills (325 mg each) per day. Everything I read online says to take 1 325 MG pill per day. I know he messed up the Nexium, but did my doctor mess up the FeSo4 as well? It’s the weekend, so I have to figure out what to do until Monday.

A: The usual dose for ferrous sulfate is 325mg daily. It may depend on your hgb/hct test results (hemoglobin and hematcrit). This indicates your anemia. If there is a mistake in your prescriptions, including the nexium, your pharmacist should have caught it, called the doctor and clarified his prescription. Your pharmacy is probably open tomorrow. I would call them as soon as they open and ask them if your prescriptions are correct. If there is any doubt, call your doctor’s office. They should have a voice mail directing you to an on call number to reach them at or it should tell you which hospital to have them paged at. It may even direct you to an after hour answering service, simply ask the operator for the doctor or nurse practitioner on call and give them your phone number. I have not heard of 3 Nexium. Is that 3 pills instead of 30 pills? Usual dosage for nexium is 40 or 20 mg daily. You do not have to wait until Monday. Call someone tomorrow.

Q: CHEST PAIN!!! HELP!!!?
I’m an 18 year old Male, 5′8 tall, 156 pounds. I have acid reflux and take/took (weaning off) 20mg Nexium.

I’ve been having a lot of anxiety/stress and been suffering from chest pain which started sometimes in the left or right side (mostly right) of my chest. It was more along the sides of the sternum (like a dull and sometimes ache and annoying pain).I was SO worried about heart related issues and went to my Cardiologist who checked me for heart problems two years ago too, he said I was fine and diagnosed me with musculoskeletal chest pain and said “it’s nothing to worry about”. This time that I went to see him (around 2 weeks ago) he did another EKG and an ECHO test and everything was fine, in fact, He said my heart is so healthy that no matter what pains I get, He promised me that they are NOT from my heart and didn’t even mention anything about my musculoskeletal chest pain. So than I went to my Gastroenterologist since my Family Doctor said it might be from my acid reflux. He scheduled an Endoscopy, and when I had it done (just the other day, September 2nd 2009) He said everything looked perfect, the pictures looked perfect, and the biopsies came back perfect and completely clean. He even said to start weaning myself off of the Nexium, because I don’t really need it anymore.

This morning when I woke up (I’ve been sleeping on the couch for months because my bed broke) and had a bad pain in my upper right side of my back, like a pinching, burning, ache every time I move certain ways and bend my neck, and It feels like it radiates to my chest (same ride side). My girlfriend thinks it’s from my back pain and anxiety/stress since I am ALWAYS stressed and worried (I’m a hypochondriac) and it seems like when I calm down, so do the pains, but they still come and go even if my minds off of worrying, my girlfriend says that because I’m such a hypochondriac, I worry and think about the pain even when I don’t think I am because of how I am, and the brain controls the whole body (if you think your in pain, you will be).

So being that my heart is healthy and so is my esophagus, stomach, upper intestine, etc. Is this from my anxiety/stress/depression and back pain??

Everywhere I look online, they all describe heart disease and I already ruled that out of the list of possibilities, I also ruled acid reflux/GERD out of the list too.

PS.. I also got checked by my family Doctor and she said I’m fine too. She checked my breathing and all that, Just in case anybody said asthma or something, that was also ruled off the list. She thinks it’s Anxiety/Stress related pain.
I think maybe from my back too?????

What do you think?

A: I don’t even need to read past the first paragraph of your question, and I can provide you some awesome solutions to this.

Step 1- trash that Nexium…no chemical drug will improve your alkalinity (pH) of the blood, it is a double negative to take meds for this stuff.
Step 2-buy a pack of pH test strips at the health food store. Test your saliva, it should read 6.8 and above, anything lower and this is the cause of your problem.
Step 3-Buy the book “Gene Makeover” -there is a special section that I would recomment to hypochondriacs -as the power of believing actually releases certain endorphins and neurotransmitters throughout the body – the power of ’suggestion’ is real within proper context. Stop believing you are coming down with something and be positive. Tests show that just ‘thinking’ positively release good levels of endorphins and hormones that will lead to healing rather than hurting.
Step 4-Chances are, you are highly magnesium deficient. Take a bath-soak of magnesium chloride 3-4 times a week for 15-20min, magnesium is IMPERATIVE to EVERY function of the body.
Step 5- Anxiety/Depression is directly linked, not only to magnesium deficiency, but to low levels of GABA in the brain. Buy a bottle of GABA at the nutrition store and take AT LEAST 1000mg a day. You WILL, without fail, notice and observe the anxiety subsiding.
Step 6- Based on your pH testing, do everything you can to ‘alkalanize’ your blood – increase your vegetable, green tea, fish and fruit intake, DECREASE your red meat, chicken, sugar and processed food intake. Test every water source you drink from with those strips, if they measure anything less than 6.8 – AVOID with EXTREME PREJUDICE. Fiji water has the highest pH of bottled waters – replace your other waters with this water. Ozarka is good; some spring waters are good only if the pH is right.

Approach this with a positive and open mind into a realm of a healthy lifestyle your doctors WON’T prescribe. Then you can thank them or slap them (whichever one) once you see the positive results. :)

Q: Gastric flu, how long will it last?
going on 16 days ago i started having cold and flu symptoms. Fatigue and a scratchy throat and sneezing. By the fourth day i felt better. i was also on my period at the time and took probably around 9 ibuprofen for cramps over 3 days. i had odd back pains that faded quickly but figured it was just my period, which i usually dont get pain until it starts but i figured with the cold i was extra sensitive. Then the evening of the fifth day of the cold when i was feeling better, after dinner i had a sudden bout of diarrhea. I thought at first it was my regular stomach problems that i have where my stomach burns and is usually relieved by going to the bathroom but this was epic. i went a few time after that until it was just stomach acid coming out and felt nausea but never vomited. i think stomach acid must have come up because my throat started to burn and my nose ran though i didnt feel any burning on the way up. Since that day i cant eat or drink without feeling full, bloated and crampy and occasional muscus-ee stools that need to come out with an urgency which makes me think i would still have diarrhea if i were still eating (i haven’t eaten solid foods in about 7 days). i took maalox the first 3 days after and was able to go to work (night shifts) though it was a huge struggle. i went to a clinic 2 or 3 days after the initial bout and was given omoxicillin which i stupidly took two of and felt worse. went to my family doctor 7 days ago and he said i have stomach flu or gastric flu and the omoxicillin probably exacerbated it since its for bacterial infections, and i had a virus and that with a liquid diet and some vitamin c and an acid reducer which hasnt worked (nexium) and of which he only gave me seven, im taking the last today, that i could turn this around in a couple of days. he poked at my stomach a little and said if i had an ulcer i wouldnt be able to stand that so i guess its not an ulcer. i went back 3 days ago when nothing improved and he basically just said stick it out, we dont want to over-medicate and that he could do a stool sample but doubted anything would come of it other than what he diagnosed already.
I keep drinking gatorade, soups and gingerale. i took imodium after the second family doctor visit which left me sooo backed up for two days though i felt stronger which makes me think i may be having a malabsorption problem because once i started going again the weakness returned. I took tylenol when i first took the omoxicillin because i thought i had a fever i was so cloudy headed.
since sunday i have felt fatigued, i have had no appetite, i have lost roughly 15 pounds i feel like im wasting away. i sleep in hour long intervals here and there but otherwise can’t stay asleep and i usually feel worse in the head when i wake up. my stomach feels bloated, hot and i eat even crackers and get acid reflux that makes me lose my voice which my doctor claims isnt acid but part of the virus but which i know is bull because it only happens before or after i have a bowel movement and there is a terrible taste in my mouth and otherwise my throat and nose is fine, not congested. and my gums hurt too.
i just want to know am i ever, EVER going to get better or i have done irreversible damage to my stomach lining some how? should i eat even though i become EXTREMELY uncomfortable afterwards and that it’ll just come out an hour later in an acidic bowl movement? am i weak due to no food or because my body is still fighting the virus. i can find nothing online linking gastritis to reflux. i have NEVER been down this long with any kind of virus. i dont think im dehydrated because i still keep peeing. is the high acid in my stomach due to lack of food or because of the inflammation? someone please tell me this will go away im on the verge of a nervous breakdown and no one thinks i should go to the hospital and that i should trust my doctor please help! i am a hypochondriac but i KNOW i am not imagining the discomfort i still get with eating. and if this is a virus why has no one else in my family fallen ill (not that i would want them to because my brother is a type 1 diabetic and an addisonian). i have become obsessed it consumes my every day i need someone to tell me i’ll be all right.
my doc claims its going around and that its all normal and can last weeks, am i being paranoid? how long can i go without eating so long as im keeping up my electrolytes without some horrible thing like organ failure or some shit happening?
i also have mucus-ee acidic secretions from both…holes down below
had three nosebleeds too

A: i wud say its gastric flu for sure so dont worry,these things can take weeks to go away so please just relax. I too am unwell at the moment with it and cannot hardly eat at all and also i have a really really bad cough that makes me wretch all the time. It does make you feel very sad and helpless but it WILL pass.

Q: are my problems serious for an ulcer? also…?
I have been having on and off issues with what I think now is an ulcer for 3 months. I have been to my doctor which gave me nexium. It has developed to the point where half my days, (usually evining or night are spent sitting up to avoid nausea with a fealing like someone punched my stomach. I eventually end up throwing up or with diahrea. So far my symptoms are persistent nausea (usuallly evining through to the night) vomiting, diahrea, cramps near my belly, bloating. Although I still have an appetite. Food feals like it just sits there.
Sometimes when the nausea is at its worst, speaking makes it even worse.

Also wondering, should I eat any meat at all? I have been looking online and find one website contradicts another.

A: Ulcers do not cause all of the symptoms you are describing. You need to go back to your doctor and tell him about all these symptoms because it sounds like a much more serious digestive problem than a simple ulcer. And if that is the case, the Nexium will make it worse by preventing your stomach from producing acid, negatively affecting digestion as well.

Q: TATTOO HELP, PIMPLES/WHITEHEADS, sorry for the long story, I just want to give EVERY DETAIL.?
Hey it is now a month and one day since I have gotten my tattoo, it is a four letter solid black tattoo on my inner forearm and it is decently large. I have already posted a comment on here stating that I was worried about an infection and it turned out that it was NOT infected, I had it checked by a dermatologist, my family doctor, and a professional tattoo artist. I received the tattoo from a friend (yes I know this was dumb, but too late now) he’s training to become a tattoo artist and he’s aiming to get his license. He used clean equipment and used a clean needle (opened in front of me). Now that it has been 1 month and 1 day since I have gotten the tattoo, it seemed like I have gotten 1 very small pimple which was raised slightly around the first letter on the edge of the outline (where there was alot of work done to fill in the letter) and it formed a whitehead while I was in a hot shower (like all pimples do). It went down and it stayed having a dry head on it (like all pimples) and now it’s looking better, I also formed a very very small lump near the previous pimple which is very slightly painful but only when touched, and in a hot shower it formed a white head, my mother said to leave it alone it’s only a pimple and it’ll get better, I also went to the doctor yesterday because I recently wasn’t feeling good and it came back that I have strep throat which she gave me Amoxicillin for, and while I was there I showed her my tattoo, (she was the doctor I showed my tattoo to when I thought it was infected). She looked at the tattoo and said “that is either a pimple or it’s still healing, the tattoo may not be FULLY healed even though it’s a month, give it a little more time and STOP WORRYING!” she always laughs at me because I worry sooo much, the doctor gave me mupirocin topical cream for irritation to put on the tattoo when I went there the first time and it helped, so she said to just put the cream on the pimple like spots. My mother said to listen and stop worrying, I drive everyone crazy because when I get the smallest pimple I think it’s infected, when I sleep and the blanket wrinkles and presses on my arm and leaves an indented red mark I think i have blood poisoning or MRSA than when the red mark fades I laugh at myself, and even when my throat culture came back that I have strep throat I thought it was from the tattoo which my mother almost smacked me for (after laughing at me) I have been a hypochondriac and I need to calm down. Everyone tells me pimples on a tattoo are completely normal and to just leave them the hell alone and it’ll be fine, the tattoo is NOT red, NOT swollen, it does NOT hurt (unless you start touching and poking at the pimple), it is NOT hot to the touch or anything, it is NOT pussing or oozing. I read on here that allergic reaction to tattoo ink can occur, my tattoo is ALL black, but there is no other sign of any allergic reaction, just pimples, and the ink he used (like I stated in my previous post asking about infection) is stated online that it is one of the best inks that can be used, it’s black “kuro sumi” tattoo ink. The whole tattoo looks fine except for the couple of pimples. so please somebody let me know their views, because I’m only gonna stress myself out about everything (like always) until somebody talks sense into me, and I already have strep throat, I don’t need to be stressed on top of it, and I also have acid reflux which I take nexium for and you shouldn’t be stressed because that bothers the acid reflux, so please anybody help. Thanks for everything!

A: It’s gonna be fine, especially since you’ve taken antibiotics. Don’t stress, easy does it. That Sumi ink is good stuff. Don’t use much lotion on it, if any at all. It’ll heal faster if it gets plenty of air. Take care.

Q: Does this sound like globus hystericus?
I’ve had a maddening problem since the end of last year. It comes and goes, but is mostly there. A sensation of a lump in my throat. Sometimes it’s accompanied by a light mucus that will neither go up or down. I’ve seen an ENT, and no problem was immediately found. I’ve put further expensive tests on hold, to experiment with a few things, and the doctor put me on Nexium in the meantime. Doesn’t seem to help, though a spray to numb the throat so I just don’t get annoyed by it helps temporarily. The fact that I sometimes don’t have the feeling at all for a few days makes me think it’s not really serious.

I’ve looked up globus hystericus after doing some research online, and wonder if that might be the real problem. What makes me think it’s possible is that the symptoms first arose when I had a problem getting the Clonazepam (Klonopin) I’ve been taking for six years, for panic attacks and anxiety. I was without it for over a week, and very distressed the whole time. I felt therapy was helping a lot, and started trying to wean off it for a while, but understand a lot of people develop a serious dependency on it, with withdrawal symptoms similar to those of heroin. Does a new cycle of panic sound like the culprit?

A: You need to discuss that with your doctor or post it in the right section. Just don’t take yahoo answers too serious in such serious matters of health.

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