Question:
I have just been told that I tested positive for H-Pylori. They are treating me now.

My problem is, is that my surgery is a week from tomorrow. I called my surgeon and they told me that I will still have surgery as planned. As I am looking through the Q&A database, it tells me different. Anyone else been diagnosed with this and still gone through surgery?    — Sixftmommy (posted on July 29, 2003)

July 29, 2003
Hi, I also found out I had H-pylori the week before my surgery...I took two different types of pills, I believe 7 days worth and was ready for my surgery as planned.I was so worried to, but everything was fine. Hope this helps.
   — Silly_Little_Dreamer B.

July 30, 2003
I also was told I tested positive for H-Pylori and I have to take meds for it. The doctors office the medicine in and I called the drug store to see how much the meds would cost. The drug store told me it cost $190.00. I liked to have had heart failure. So I called the doctors office to see if the doctor could give me something a bit cheaper and they told me to get my PCP to give me samples, but my PCP does not give samples for Prilosec or Prevacid or Zantac out of the office. So I have to come up with the money or try some of the products over the counter equvilant to Previcid or Prilosec or Zantac. I am not scheduled for WLS as of yet, but I need to get this medicine to start taking it before I have surgery. I need to know if the over the counter drugs work as good as the prescribed? I just can't afford the $190.00 prescription.
   — mspisces