Medical advice - Helicobacter Pylori

Yes, i have. 3 days or so of tablets. thats it. no side effects at all for me.

If you mean the side effects of the drugs then I can't help, but we work on campylobacter (its previous name before reclassification) here (but in livestock) so if your finding trouble finding info, try campylobacter rather than helicobacter in your googling.

HTH!

My ex had treatment and no side effects for him either. All his stomach problems disappeared afterwards.

I might be getting different med's as I have a course of 7 days to take but glad to hear you didn't have side effects. I know everyone is different but I have heard some horror stories.

My dad did and AFAIK had no side effects. Also he didnt stop drinking (which a friend was told to do when he went through the treatment). No problems since.

it may well have been seven days, its ages ago. i just remeber that there were no issues.

Are they not 2 different things - Helicobacter Pylori can cause stomach ulcers and campylobacter gives you food poisoning?

Just googled it and your right it's 2 different things.

Thanks everyone for the replies. I hope I don't suffer either.

H pylori used to be called Campylobacter pyloris but was reclassified.

Ah I see!

Do you know what the 3 meds are? My mum has had treatment for this a couple of years ago she had 2 different antibiotics and lansoprazole, for a week if I remember correctly, she didn't experience any side effects and is fine now.

I do remember that one of the fuckers was so huge a horse would have struggled to swallow it ?

(no *** jokes)

They are Amoxicillin, Clarithromycin and Lonsoprazole. Maybe the doc was just telling me to expect the worst just in case! I think my friends wording was that the med flush it out your system which I'm sure you can guess what they meant and I didn't fancy being at work in that case.

Nick the amoxicillin is pretty big and so is the Clarithromycin!

I have 8 tablets to take each day for a week and then hopefully be cured.

Thanks everyone

I cant remeber side effects of the drugs either

They thought I had that but the test came back negative but whilst they were waiting they gave me a 14 day course of lonzaprozal (or however you spell it) and I did have quite a nasty reaction to it but I'm just awkward!

Hope you are ok with it all and hope you get better soon.