Update

So the fall and winter were just so super busy for me that I got away from this. I currently take 40 mg Pantoprazole in the am and Zantac 150 at night. I also take a probiotic each day and a product called Acid Soothe after I eat sometimes (it's got marshmallow root and papaya and stuff like that), and I take two DGL licorice before I have dinner.

From September to December it was a little rough getting off the PM dose and I really didn't stop it altogether till January. I just kept having the morning sore throat and had a few episodes of really bad ones- in December and January. I slowly but surely got off it though. Just for the PM dose, I alternated 40 and 20 mg every other day and more and more subbed the 20mg in- from the every other day for a few weeks, to every third day for a week or two, to every 4th and so on till every day I was taking the 20mg dose instead of the 40. Then I started pulling the 20 away in the same manner and subbed the zantac instead and started using the DGL licorice too before dinner and before bed. To be honest I don't think the 20mg dose does anything for me. I'm kind of dreading doing it again for the morning dose because I just don't think it does any good.

So I basically since February have had little to no symptoms going on except a super duper minor scratchy throat in the morning and because of that I continue to take the zantac overnight.

I'll continue to update more regularly my detox from this horrible medication.