Possible GERD flare up despite taking Omeprazole

I take famotidine in the morning and pantoprazole at night, and I STILL have reflux and GERD symptoms. Sometimes I use my mom’s remedy: a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of warm water, stir it up and chug it really fast. It neutralizes the acid, but it will make you burp a lot.

Yep, definitely possible. I’m taking pantoprazole and I still sometimes take one Tum tablet if I’ve had too much of a trigger food and I take Pepcid every night. So sorry to hear about the flair up! Hope you can sort out the symptoms ❤️

You can absolutely have breakthrough episodes. I've had to cut things out of my diet to prevent them. I'm on an rx for GERD.

When I started pantoprazole, my doctor said that breakthrough symptoms were possible, and that I could treat them with OTC pepcid. I did end up on a prescription strength pepcid as my symptoms weren't controlled well enough with pantoprazole alone. I would give the OTC a try when symptoms flare.