xfilme
14-03-12, 13:16
Hello people. Been on 20mg Omeprazole for a week now. They work well so long as I take them at the right time, which I havent been.
I was trying to take them at 5pm so they would be most effective during the night when i get the reflux, forgetting that I only need to take them to cover periods where I eat because they are to prevent symptoms and not to treat them. I dont eat while im sleeping so Im wasting the tablets essentially.
Ive decided I need to get them from 5pm in the late afternoon, back to about 11am, before lunch (i dont eat breakfast often). To do this I have three choices. I can either take my tablet an hour earlier every day for so many days to get it back on track, a bit at a time, which means days of going less than 24 hours between pills/ Im not supposed to take them with less than a 24 hour gap. Or I could not take one when I normally would this evening and wait it out til tomorrow morning and start taking them at the right time of day again. But this would mean a hard night tonight with my reflux returning. Or lastly I could just take one now, about 4 hours earlier than usualy, and getting it back to the right time by doing the same tomorrow, but this would mean leaving a gap of only about 20 hours between tablets.
I have medication phobia, so I dont know what to do. I get scared of taking too much too soon.
Are there any Omeprazole takers there than can give their opinion? I cant call my doc, by the time he'd call me back, I will have missed any opportunity to take a tablet before 5pm if i should decide to do so.
Any advice appreciated.
I was trying to take them at 5pm so they would be most effective during the night when i get the reflux, forgetting that I only need to take them to cover periods where I eat because they are to prevent symptoms and not to treat them. I dont eat while im sleeping so Im wasting the tablets essentially.
Ive decided I need to get them from 5pm in the late afternoon, back to about 11am, before lunch (i dont eat breakfast often). To do this I have three choices. I can either take my tablet an hour earlier every day for so many days to get it back on track, a bit at a time, which means days of going less than 24 hours between pills/ Im not supposed to take them with less than a 24 hour gap. Or I could not take one when I normally would this evening and wait it out til tomorrow morning and start taking them at the right time of day again. But this would mean a hard night tonight with my reflux returning. Or lastly I could just take one now, about 4 hours earlier than usualy, and getting it back to the right time by doing the same tomorrow, but this would mean leaving a gap of only about 20 hours between tablets.
I have medication phobia, so I dont know what to do. I get scared of taking too much too soon.
Are there any Omeprazole takers there than can give their opinion? I cant call my doc, by the time he'd call me back, I will have missed any opportunity to take a tablet before 5pm if i should decide to do so.
Any advice appreciated.