Hi I had an endoscopy yesterday and have a small hiatus hernia, I came off lansoprazole about a month ago after being on them for 2 months but they suppressed my appetite which made it worse and also gave me very loose bowel movements, I now eat little and often and take gaviscon advance or tums if and when needed, I was signed up for sedation but decided against it as I wanted to go to bingo last night lol, I must admit it was bloody awful and don't think I would do it again without sadation, but the heart burn today has been worse today than I had before. I never had any problems like this before menopause and now my body is throwing every memo symptom going, damn bloody hormones. Hopefully I'm coming out the other end soon, my last monthly was 5 months ago. Good luck to you all and I hope whatever we choose to take medicine wise works.