Tomorrow, I will have been on them for a week. I also first stopped drinking coffee last Friday but that gave me a splitting head ache so I continued drinking only a little every day.
My esophageal sphincter had got permanently damaged after my first colon cancer because I had been on a type of a type of pain killer that increases stomach acid production.
When I had called the hospital and complained about a new type of stomach pain, they told me to continue on the pain killers, and I did what they told me ...
I noticed that I get hurtburn when I drink coffee with milk - and I've been doing that my whole life. I cant drink black coffee, so add just a small amount of milk nowadays.
I'd been on Naproxen for 5 years straight for my back pains and was told that this must have ruined my stomach. Anyway, 3 years ago I had stomach sleeve surgery, so bye bye stomach - I got rid of most of my problems, including obesity, BUT hurtburn is common side effect of gastric sleeve, so I'm back on omeprazole... ****ing hell...