Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 6:12 PM
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Subject: GERD Treatment

I have been taking Prevacid® daily for several years and would like to stop taking it. Whenever I try to cut down to every other day or every third day, I have reflux problems. I should also tell you that I have a hiatial hernia, which I am sure aggravates my condition.
Do you have any recommendations for an alternative to Prevacid®?
I am a 52 year old male in good health.

Thank you,

Mike

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Thank you for your e-mail.

Yes, I do have a possible answer, Digestive Enzymes and Probiotics.

I recommend that you take 2 Homefirst® Probiotics with FOS capsules in the AM and PM without food. I also recommend that you take 1 Homefirst® Digestive Enzyme capsule with meals 3 times per day.

Mayer Eisenstein MD

Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:03 PM
To: Mayer Eisenstein

Subject: Re: GERD Treatment

Dr. Eisenstein,

I contacted you about 6 weeks ago asking how to get off Prevacid®. I had taken it daily for several years. Your advice was do it gradually and take digestive enzymes with meals and probiotics without food. I told you I would let you know how things have turned out.

I have been completely off Prevacid® now for 1 month and so far so good. I'm not declaring victory yet, but I'm feeling confident I'll have no need to go back to Prevacid® therapy. I have an endoscopy scheduled in December. That should be a good test, although I have not had the GERD pain that I normally experienced before Prevacid® or when I had tried to stop taking it previously.

Thank you for your advice!

Mike