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My husband has been taking Omeprazole for about ten years now. A...

Posted at 4:58 PM on Jun 06, 2008 by randy57, #31154
My husband has been taking Omeprazole for about ten years now. About nine months ago he went in for a endoscopy and the doctor said she wanted to increase the omeprazole of 20mg 2xdaily because of the acid reflux. Several weeks after increasing this drug, my husband began getting very depressed. He losted all interest in our business and started having severe mood swings. He couldn't sleep at night, screaming with cramps in his legs, heart palpitations, blurred vision, ringing in ears, hot flashes, headaches behind the eyes. Some night I thought he was having a heart attack. It only got worse, hallucination began and horrible nightmares. He thought I was putting drugs and poison in his food. and felt like the world was against him. He became very violent toward me because of the hallucinations. We went for a follow up at his doctor and she suggested a psychiatry. Of course, my husband refused because he felt nothing was wrong, it was everyone else with the problem. His attacks got so bad, it was happen everyday, all day. We have two small children and we decided to split up for the children sake. My husband left for a week and when he left he refused to take the Omeprazole. He called me during that week and said he has felt great, he was able to sleep, no anxiety. He said to me if you are not putting drugs in my drink and food..it's got to be the omerprazole. Of course the doctors said it's not possible...he has been off these pills for 8 days and it's unreal how this symptoms has disappeared. He is still having some side effects and withdraws. I don't know how long this will be in his system but I hope it goes away soon. THIS IS A DEVIL DRUG. He almost took his life and my too over OMEPRAZOLE. My doctor recently wrote this drug for me but I will not take it... We would never know about how serious this little pill for heartburn was if we didn't research it. When you get this drug from the pharmacy, they only list some side effects and not the serious one...How many more people out in the world is dealing with this same problem and not aware of these serious side effect. This almost destroyed our lives. WE NEED TO TAKE SOME KIND OF ACTION, SO THESE SERIOUS SIDE EFFECT HAVE TO BE LISTED..
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Reply 2 months ago on Jun 06, 2008 by mekasa2, #8990

I was so amazed to read your article. Just recently the same thing happened to me. I lost all my children. They won't speak to me. I was a monester. I felt awful. I did not want to live and knew I was the cause of all the problems in our family but did not know why until thankfully one day my perscription money ran out and I had to buy my meds. I decided to let go of Omeprazole and try this on my own. I was taking it to sleep at night. Within 3 to 4 days I was a changed person. I could not believe how great I felt. Then I realized what had been happening. I feel like a new person now but unfortunately my family is not back together and I may never be able to undo what I did to those I love the most. This drug is a killer drug and should be taken off the market. I would love to help those who do not know what this can do to your life before it is to late for them. Thank you for your information, it confirms now that I am not the only one who has gone through this.

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Reply about 1 month ago on Jul 30, 2008 by kac777, #10608

I have also been so sick, can barely breathe, from Prilosec, Protonix, and Nexium. Think I would have died had I continued taking a proton pump inhibitor. How can action be taken against these drugs?

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Reply 12 days ago on Aug 17, 2008 by mismoo37, #11246

my dad has been on this for about a month now and seems to be helping him,however all this information on this page is frightening.hes a 66 yr old man in fair condition and he couldnt keep any food down they tried him on prilosec and nexium and they worked for a few days or a week but then it got worse so now its OMEPRAZOLE 2o mg 2xs daily...his side effect is diareah after every meal almost immediately so how does he go out for dinner anywhere?how imbarresing so what does he do???is there another drug as effective as these other ones or does he live with the diareah and worry about the other side effects that he may or may not get?????im concerned for him and dont know what i should tell him to do especially when your own doctor puts you on something like this and then tells ya to go see a phyciatrist how sick is that???i feel for everyone that has delt with this med and hopefully i can figure this out for my dad!!!thanks to all you might have saved a life from all this information!!!!!!

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