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it's amazing no one knows about urea breath test in England.

anyway, I have found this from NHS website.
https://www.hey.nhs.uk/patient-leaflet/ ... eath-test/

If you had metronidazole a year ago, I would probably not try metronidazole again. Ask your doctor to give you something else, eg. Clarithromycin. Rabeprazole is metabolised differently in comparison to omeprazole and lansoprazole. So hopefully you'll find it more tolerable. the stomach acid has two...

I am sorry to what happened to you. So condition is most probably not due to H. pylori. Nevertheless, do let me know if you need any H. pylori related suggestions.

Hi, your story wasnt finished. So were you diagnosed with H. pylori in the end?

yup. sounds like you need to continue your pepcid.
4 weeks is good enough for the breath test to confirm if the treatment work.

you can continue pepcid until the night before breath test. here is a guide to follow.
https://www.helico.com/PYtest_guide_2013.pdf

I am sorry to hear. but I have responded your other post.
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=205992

if you have not been taking any antibiotics or PPI, you can do the breath test after a month.

here is a guideline how long you should wait before breath test. it applies to stool test too.
https://www.helico.com/PYtest_guide_2013.pdf

it'll take a few days for the taste to go away.

it actually reminded you that you have the antibiotics in your saliva, killing bacteria in your mouth.

and you can monitor how many days it take for the antibiotics to go out your system.

there is another member in the forum who tried similar treatment. https://www.helico.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=205924 The observation from our patients is that, the stronger the stomach acid is suppressed, the higher the cure rate with antibiotics. The theory is that H2 blocker cannot suppress...

That explained why the blood test results are so different.
Each laboratory has their own standard. So the reading may not be comparable directly.

All the best to the endoscopy examination.

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