Getting acid on Herceptin

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moonwolf
moonwolf Member Posts: 130
edited June 2014 in Complementary and Holistic Medicine and Treatment
Getting acid on Herceptin
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  • moonwolf
    moonwolf Member Posts: 130
    edited August 2009

    I've started getting acid since getting Herceptin.  I'm afraid to take anti-acid drugs because I worry that once I start I will be stuck on them.

    Any ideas as to how I can deal with this acid?

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  • LJ13-2
    LJ13-2 Member Posts: 235
    edited August 2009

    Prolonged acid reflux can cause precancerous changes to the esophagus.

    I'd just take the antacid. You body has already proven it can make cancer out of normal cells.

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  • moonwolf
    moonwolf Member Posts: 130
    edited August 2009

    Oh no!  I didn't know that Frown.  Thanks for that LJ.

    I'm so fed up with this.  We take a drug for one thing and end up having to take another for what that causes, etc.

    One of the reasons I don't want to get onto the anti-acid wagon is because they block calcium and hence affect bones and I already have oesteoporosis.

    Does anyone have any ideas on another way to deal with the acid?

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  • Welga
    Welga Member Posts: 308
    edited August 2009

    well I read somewhere here that if you take cacium citrate its absorbed better than the other ones if you are on PPI. I'm also worried about this for myself....

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  • hollyann
    hollyann Member Posts: 2,992
    edited August 2009

    See if your oncologist wll prescribe a prescription for Protonix...I took this for a long time and was able to get off it after a while.....Good luck sweetie.....

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