Btw, if you're taking prilosec, you're worsening your health ...
It is good you don't get the side effects of Prilosec...
Be careful with long-term intake of PPIs (proton pump inhibitors) like Prilosec, Prevacid and Nexium. They are usually relieving GERD by significantly reducing gastric acid which is necessary for proper digestion, so the cells are still producing HCl which may result in later "overcompensating" PPI inhibition by overproduction thus intensifiying GERD / acid reflux, as well as creating other digestive issues.
There are also other possible side effects, one of which is severe reduction in magnesium in the system (that's why Nexium capsules contain some magnesium, but it's not nearly enough) and magnesium depletion is already very common, even in people who don't use PPIs.
If you take magnesium supplement, make sure it's a very absorbable (high-bioavailability) form, i.e., not magnesium oxide which is the one mostly sold in drug stores (citrate, malate, taurinate/taurate, amino acid chelate etc. are much better forms — there are threads on FR that describe advantages of each). Yet it's best not to use PPIs at all, if possible, especially over long term.
The important thing to realize is that the symptoms of GERD are due to high -pH gastric acid (too low acid) and not the high-acid BS fed to patients by the pharmaceutics giants.
How doctors can peddle this crap with a straight face is beyond me (COI is the only logical explanation). The effect of further lowering gastric acid is sure to include digestive problems, malnutrition from malabsorption and disease (your stomach acid is your first line of defense against ingested pathogens).
False, "the magnesium just refers to the specific salt that the Omeprazole is derived from"
Long-term problems with PPIs are much more likely to involve osteoporosis than magnesium deficiency.