Gastritis

[heartofgold]

I have recently been diagnosed with celiac disease. My question is more about blood pressure medications. I am on Micardis 80mg since last September. In October I had some dental work and was on antibiotics for 10 days . just around then I began to experience stomach problems. The doctor said it was probably the antibiotics. To make a long story short I eventually after months of stomach pain had the endoscopy and colonoscopy when i found out about celiac disease and was told I had chronic gastritis in February. Anyways it is not getting any better( on proton pump) but my husband had a thought. He said you know you had that pain since you started Micardis come to think of it. So he said he was going to call the company. This all happened today (Friday) cause I was in a lot of burning type stomach pain. He went to call and I went online and typed in micardis - gastritis and all kinds of sites came up. They told us on the phone it is a side effect too and they will have someone from the company call me on monday hopefully. But the question is ... did anyone else experience anything like that with a B.P. medication? I know gastritis can be related to C.D. too but I found it odd I got the stomach problems around that time. Hope someone has some insight on this . thanks for reading Anne

[Grayjo]

I have recently been diagnosed with celiac disease. My question is more about blood pressure medications. I am on Micardis 80mg since last September. In October I had some dental work and was on antibiotics for 10 days . just around then I began to experience stomach problems. The doctor said it was probably the antibiotics. To make a long story short I eventually after months of stomach pain had the endoscopy and colonoscopy when i found out about celiac disease and was told I had chronic gastritis in February. Anyways it is not getting any better( on proton pump) but my husband had a thought. He said you know you had that pain since you started Micardis come to think of it. So he said he was going to call the company. This all happened today (Friday) cause I was in a lot of burning type stomach pain. He went to call and I went online and typed in micardis - gastritis and all kinds of sites came up. They told us on the phone it is a side effect too and they will have someone from the company call me on monday hopefully. But the question is ... did anyone else experience anything like that with a B.P. medication? I know gastritis can be related to C.D. too but I found it odd I got the stomach problems around that time. Hope someone has some insight on this . thanks for reading Anne

[Grayjo]

heartofgold--am curious as to how you are doing. I took Micardis (mid-February) and about 3-4 weeks later started having abdominal pain-gas pain pressure up into my back and chest and left shoulder. Dr. doesn' t think its from Micardis side effect--I'm having an ultrasound to check gall bladder on Monday. I quit taking Micardis one week ago today, but am still having pain. Would apprecite any info you can give me. Thank you!