want to help with my story
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 11:12 am
hello everybody,
9 years of bad breath. started after helicobacter pylori that eliminated after 3 courses of antibiotics. but even after the helicobacter was gone i was still having acute halitosis.
i thought the bad breath comes from the digestive system but didn't know what is the root of the cause. i thought maybe it's leaky gut, maybe it's gluten senstivity, maybe bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine. i took many kinds of supplements which didn't help at all. i tried the chinese medicine nothing helped.
i went to dentist who specialized in bad breath and they lied to me and told that the bad breath comes from the mouth and i should floss between my teeth and rinse with mouthwashes. nothing helped. even the corsodyl (chlorexidine gluconate) didn't help other than reduce the acute smell for 2-3 hours.
in the last two weeks i realize that after i eat i'm suffering of burping and even parts of food goes up to the area of my throat. i always had this feeling but i was ignoring it because i got used to the feeling.
i went to an ent doctor and told him i have a strange feeling in the throat after i eat i feel like food stuck in my throat. he checked me with a fiber optic through my nose into the throat and saw little edema in the voice box. i told i suffer of heartburn and after i eat i burp a lot and feel that the food goes up to the throat.
i decided to read about gerd on the internet and i learn a lot about it. gerd is an acid reflux that goes up from the stomach to your esophagus and sometimes even to the throat and voice box. it can cause damage to the esophagus and the voice box. i didn't see in many articles i've read that one of the symptoms is acute bad breath. but i asked the ent and he told that it definitley can be the reason.
well, i started a 3 months course of Omeprazole 80 mg per day. 40 mg first thing in the morning and 40 mg before dinner.
i'm on my 10th day and i can tell you 100% that the root of my bad breath is gerd. my bad breath reduced 80 precent. i can feel that it is still there but much much less and i can speak with people almost freely now. my girlfriend started kissing me with her tongue i was in shocked. my family and friends started getting close to me.
i hope that it will still get better i have 3 months of treatment and more than that i hope i would not have to be on this ppi's for my whole life. but i will keep writing here for you for sure. i suffered so much and i will do everything for the ones who still suffer.
my suggestion for you is to try going to an ent or gastroentrologist and say that you have heartburn and that you feel bad after eating and you burp all the time. and get a prescription for Omeprzole and treat yourself 80 mg per day divided to two. take it a month at least and see if there's an improvement. the worst case there is not an improvement and you know that gerd is not the cause. but ppi's cannot make damage in taken unnecessary. in my country the ppi's can be buy without prescription so i even could try without going to a doctor. so check it in the pharmacy.
i would love to answer your questions here. sorry for my english!
9 years of bad breath. started after helicobacter pylori that eliminated after 3 courses of antibiotics. but even after the helicobacter was gone i was still having acute halitosis.
i thought the bad breath comes from the digestive system but didn't know what is the root of the cause. i thought maybe it's leaky gut, maybe it's gluten senstivity, maybe bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine. i took many kinds of supplements which didn't help at all. i tried the chinese medicine nothing helped.
i went to dentist who specialized in bad breath and they lied to me and told that the bad breath comes from the mouth and i should floss between my teeth and rinse with mouthwashes. nothing helped. even the corsodyl (chlorexidine gluconate) didn't help other than reduce the acute smell for 2-3 hours.
in the last two weeks i realize that after i eat i'm suffering of burping and even parts of food goes up to the area of my throat. i always had this feeling but i was ignoring it because i got used to the feeling.
i went to an ent doctor and told him i have a strange feeling in the throat after i eat i feel like food stuck in my throat. he checked me with a fiber optic through my nose into the throat and saw little edema in the voice box. i told i suffer of heartburn and after i eat i burp a lot and feel that the food goes up to the throat.
i decided to read about gerd on the internet and i learn a lot about it. gerd is an acid reflux that goes up from the stomach to your esophagus and sometimes even to the throat and voice box. it can cause damage to the esophagus and the voice box. i didn't see in many articles i've read that one of the symptoms is acute bad breath. but i asked the ent and he told that it definitley can be the reason.
well, i started a 3 months course of Omeprazole 80 mg per day. 40 mg first thing in the morning and 40 mg before dinner.
i'm on my 10th day and i can tell you 100% that the root of my bad breath is gerd. my bad breath reduced 80 precent. i can feel that it is still there but much much less and i can speak with people almost freely now. my girlfriend started kissing me with her tongue i was in shocked. my family and friends started getting close to me.
i hope that it will still get better i have 3 months of treatment and more than that i hope i would not have to be on this ppi's for my whole life. but i will keep writing here for you for sure. i suffered so much and i will do everything for the ones who still suffer.
my suggestion for you is to try going to an ent or gastroentrologist and say that you have heartburn and that you feel bad after eating and you burp all the time. and get a prescription for Omeprzole and treat yourself 80 mg per day divided to two. take it a month at least and see if there's an improvement. the worst case there is not an improvement and you know that gerd is not the cause. but ppi's cannot make damage in taken unnecessary. in my country the ppi's can be buy without prescription so i even could try without going to a doctor. so check it in the pharmacy.
i would love to answer your questions here. sorry for my english!