The stomach pain after stopping the medication for two weeks may be due to unsuccessful treatment for H. pylori. The reasons for unsuccessful treatment include smoking, failure to follow the standardized regimen, and reasons for drug resistance.
1. Smoking: Smoking will weaken the activity of proton pump inhibitor metabolizing enzymes and reduce the eradication rate of H. pylori, and if you smoke while taking the medication, it may lead to unsuccessful treatment of H. pylori.
2. Failure to follow the standard course of treatment: the course of treatment for quadruple therapy is usually 10 to 14 days, if the patient shortens the course of treatment or forgets to take the medicine regularly in the middle of the course of treatment, all of these will lead to poor therapeutic effect of the patient, which will lead to the failure of the treatment of H. pylori.
3. Drug resistance: Helicobacter pylori has strong resistance to selected antibiotics, which makes the efficacy of the drugs used by the patient poor.
Clinical review of H. pylori infection is usually done at least 1 month after the end of eradication treatment to clarify whether the treatment of H. pylori infection is successful.
If you have stomach pain and discomfort, you should consult a doctor in time, under the guidance of a professional physician, and should not blindly deal with it on your own, so as to avoid adverse consequences.