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Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:44 pm  |
| Last week i had really bad stomach pains, i could not sleep and the pains persisted so i had to go to the hospital. The pains are really bad that it causes me to throw up, even though i do not feel nauseous. While i was in the hospital, the doctor told me that it is just acidity due to some things i ate. He gave me pills to help with the acidity. A week later, i'm still in very bad pains. I went to another doctor and he told me this may be an ulcer. I've never dealt with anything like this before. I've been sick for a week now, some days are better than others. Last night i had to go to the hospital again due to the pain in the stomach. Has anybody had ulcers before? what does the pain feel like? |
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Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:19 pm |
| If you're super stressed/upset, you can have ulcer -like pain as well. |
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Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:51 pm |
i had this problem about 1 1/2 yrs ago. i was in vegas and drank a fuzzy navel around late afternoon but didn't eat anything yet. by dinner time, i started to feel sick and wanting to throw up. i tried to eat something but by 11 pm - 3 am, i was vomitting constantly. it must of been something bad in the drink. i was in so much pain that i couldn't even walk straight, stabbing pain in my stomach. i couldn't eat anything. doctors told me it wasn't an ulcer and it was just gas, blah blah. told me to take pepcid ac and some other medications. it did not work at all. i could barely eat. i was 110 lbs and went down to 102 lbs within 2 weeks. i looked really pale and sickly. my friend was worried about me and how my primary physician wasn't doing much for me at all. she took me to her family doctor over in tijuana. i was skeptical but I had nothing to lose. the doctor told me i had alot of air in my stomach produced by an excess amount of acid due to my vomitting incident. he pressed on my stomach and it hurt. he said that my health was in jeopardy. he prescribed me real medication and it actually worked. i never wrote down the name. but i have to becareful of certain food, such as spicy, acidic and greasy food.
check this site out:
http://www.webmd.com/heartburn-gerd/tc/Gas-Bloating-and-Burping-Check-Your-Symptoms
no one ever told me what i had but i think it might of been some form of gastroesophagael reflux disease or maybe an ulcer.
has the doctor's suggested doing an endoscopy? i was going to do that if the visit to TJ didn't cure me. to me, some doctor's can be very lazy and not care. you have to insist them doing something for you. unless your lucky to have a doctor that actually care. not saying all doctors are like the one i had but that's what i had to experience.
keep us updated on how your doing.
i found this section:
Peptic ulcers
Peptic ulcers are craterlike sores that develop when the digestive juices produced by the stomach eat away or erode the lining of the digestive tract. Peptic ulcers may form in the lining of the stomach (gastric ulcers) or just below the stomach, at the start of the small intestine (duodenal ulcers).
The most common causes of peptic ulcers are infection with Helicobacter pylori bacteria and frequent use of aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
Common symptoms of an ulcer include:
Burning, aching, and gnawing pain between the navel and the breastbone (epigastric pain), possibly extending to the back.
Pain may last minutes or hours and is often relieved by eating or by taking antacids or a stomach acid blocker.
Weeks of pain that comes and goes may alternate with pain-free periods.
Lack of appetite and weight loss.
Bloating, nausea, or vomiting after eating. Vomit may contain bright red blood or partially digested blood that looks like coffee grounds.
Black, tarry stools. Dark red blood may be mixed in stool.
Treatment with medication usually is effective at relieving symptoms caused by peptic ulcers. Surgery may be needed if the ulcer causes excess bleeding in the digestive tract or if a hole (perforation) develops in the stomach or intestine. |
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:17 am |
| Where's the pain in your stomach BCGirl? When I got sick a number of months back, I thought it was my stomach, but it turned out to be gallstones (pain predominately on my right side under the rib cage). |
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:55 pm |
I have a real problem with acid reflux. I do take a prescription medication Nexium (purple coloured pills).
Here is a link that tells you a little more:
www.yourdigestivehealth.ca/dmitm or phone 1-866-602-2514
My pain came on suddenly. I remember I was at work on a Friday before the long weekend. It was so bad that I decided to go to the clinic on the way home. (I don't like the clinic.) |
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:04 pm |
| yea, my first thought would be gall rather than ulcer...my mum gets bad gall attacks (though no stones) - the pain from one was so bad it masked the pain of the heart attack she was having!! Dad had a duodenal (oh, I have NO idea how to spell it and too damned lazy to google it) ulcer when I was a kid and I remember the meds cost a FORTUNE. Since then he cannot eat spicy foods or onions. With mum's gall, it is usually oils that bring it on. It could be something as natural as Avocado or as bad as having eated fried food. |
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:50 pm |
| alice~in~wonderland wrote: |
| Where's the pain in your stomach BCGirl? When I got sick a number of months back, I thought it was my stomach, but it turned out to be gallstones (pain predominately on my right side under the rib cage). |
Same thing happened to me a few years ago. I was having stomach pain that I thought was indigestion so I would take a few Tums and the pain would subside temporarily. This went on for months. Then one night the pain was so bad I couldn't sleep and was literally keeled over in pain...went to the ER and they removed my gallbladder that same night!
Has anyone else in your family had theirs removed? I know they say it isn't hereditary, but both my parents and one of my brothers had to have their gallbladder out, too.
Please take care, BCgirl, and hope you're feeling better soon  |
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:42 pm |
the pains i'm having is in my stomach. Above my naval
I've always been able to eat spicy foods, drink alchohol etc. and nobody in my family has these sorts of problems. i've also took tums but that doesnt help. |
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:44 am |
Why not try very very strong GREEN TEA....
maybe 2 or 3 cups will ease the pain....
Let me know the results...
thanks
| BCgirl wrote: |
| Last week i had really bad stomach pains, i could not sleep and the pains persisted so i had to go to the hospital. The pains are really bad that it causes me to throw up, even though i do not feel nauseous. While i was in the hospital, the doctor told me that it is just acidity due to some things i ate. He gave me pills to help with the acidity. A week later, i'm still in very bad pains. I went to another doctor and he told me this may be an ulcer. I've never dealt with anything like this before. I've been sick for a week now, some days are better than others. Last night i had to go to the hospital again due to the pain in the stomach. Has anybody had ulcers before? what does the pain feel like? |
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:02 am |
^ i will try the strong green tea thing.
I've been trying to drink a cup of liptons green tea everyday but maybe that isn't strong enough |
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Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:05 pm |
| The doctor can run a test to see if you have an ulcer - a urea breath test. Might be worth looking into if you're still not feeling better. |
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Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:32 am |
| ^ yup did the breath test, gunna go to the doc today for the results. |
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Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:10 pm |
| Stomach pains could be several things, gall bladder, kidney stones, appendicitis, if it doesn't get better very soon, go back and get someone to take you seriously! Best wishes. |
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Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:14 pm |
well my breath test for ulcers came out negative however the doctor still prescribed me anti-biotics for ulcers just in case the breath test was somehow wrong  which i found to be really strange. Why would i want to take anti-biotics for something that i probably don't have
I need to find another doctor |
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Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:39 am |
If it's a single course of antibiotics that will not be ongoing, what your doctor did is reasonable.
I would not drink black or green tea at all at this time. You might try ginger, mint, chamomie, or Evian water. |
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Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:11 pm |
I'm still recovering from a course of antibiotics I didn't need given to me in March... what she thought was a skin infection combined with an impaired immune system due to stress the antibiotics created a nightmare fungus situation and I'm still working my way out of that!
If you don't need them DON"T take them! |
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Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:04 pm |
| Dahli, can you elaborate? What antibiotic was this, and what kind of fungus? |
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Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:03 am |
| BCgirl wrote: |
well my breath test for ulcers came out negative however the doctor still prescribed me anti-biotics for ulcers just in case the breath test was somehow wrong which i found to be really strange. Why would i want to take anti-biotics for something that i probably don't have
I need to find another doctor |
My daughter had symptoms very similar to yours and was eventually diagnosed with H.Pylori which is a corkscrewing bacteria that thrives in acid conditions in the gut. It is present in most cases of ulcers and also connected with cancer of the stomach. Having it does not mean you GET cancer though! Lucy was treated with a what they called 'triple therapy' which was a three week long course of three different antibiotics and she is now fine (she was 12 when it was diagnosed). So being prescribed antibiotics is not so strange.
If you want some natural help as well, then pure unrefined honey, especially high potency manuka is helpful as is mastika if you can get it. |
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Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:04 pm |
Hi BCgirl! I came across an interesting article that I think you should read, as it may help you to determine if your symptoms align with ulcers. My mother suffered through two duodenal ulcers when she was a kid and went through hell trying to recover from them. No one knew at that time (1950) that the primary cause of ulcers is from H. pylori bacterium. If you truly have an ulcer developing or are infected with H. pylori, there are generally some specific signs & symptoms associated. Read through the article below as it should help you determine if your symptoms are the same or similar.
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/Peptic_ulcer.html
Personally, I would not jump onto the anti-biotic band-wagon until I explored the situation a little deeper. It sounds as if your GP is taking the easy way out and not being as thorough as he can be. This is not to say that the antibiotics he prescribed won't help, I would just want to be certain why he is prescribing them if you aren't showing positive for any bacterial infection in your system. I believe there is a blood test for H. pylori, in addition to the breathe test. Call his office up and ask if you can have the blood test, just so you can be certain. I would be very upset if I went through one round of antibiotics only to discover they didn't work and I have to endure ANOTHER more intensive round. The treatment plan for H. pylori bacteria is a three-pronged approach (as Guapa mentioned). So if I were you, I'd want to ensure what Plan B is if the antibiotics he just prescribed don't work. I would hate to think you might have to endure this round of anti-biotics on top of THREE more should this alone not heal the problem.
I am also a big fan of treating any type of bacterial condition with Wild Mediterranean Oil of Oregano. If you do have something bacterial in nature that is causing your problem, it sounds as if you would benefit from the capsules in addition to several drops of oil taken under your tongue each day. You would be amazed at how effective this natural remedy is, I still can't get over how awesome this stuff is and that I've been living all these years without it! If you do a google search, you'll also come across many reports that say Oil of Oregano is very effective in fighting against H. pylori bacterium. I have not suffered from this from of baterial infection, but did recently come down with an 'almost' horrific respiratory infection around a month ago. In the past, I would have been forced to get a prescription for a heavy-duty round of antibiotics to recover properly. Knowing that anti-biotics were a viable option, I decided to try Oil of Oregano to see what would happen first. Though I felt ill in varying degrees for several days, the infection was relatively minor and didn't develop into a full-scale condition. It's as if everything suddenly halted, for lack of a better description. I was thrilled that I overcame whatever I had without anti-biotics, however, the only thing I would do differently next time is to augment the drops of oil with the capsules. I feel certain this would have increased the healing up even more. If you are interested in trying Oil of Oregano, call a large health food store in your area and ask them if they have both the oil and capsules in stock. Just be certain to take the Oil of Oregano (oil) with food, as it is very strong and can cause heartburn for some. The capsules do not cause heartburn as they are delivered into your GI tract and by-pass your stomach.
www.p-73.com
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| The P73 oil of oregano blend has also been shown to kill the Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) bacterium, which is known to be a causal factor in up to 90 percent of duodenal ulcers and 80 percent of stomach (gastric) ulcers. A small clinical trial initiated in 2003 demonstrated that the P73 oil of oregano blend showed positive results in patients with stomach and duodenal ulcers |
I hope you feel better soon!!!!  |
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Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:56 pm |
thanks to everyone who posted!
Well when i went for my breath test, they also took a blood test and both came out negative for H.pylori (ulcer). The doctor told me that my results came out negative probably to the anti-acid pills i have taken a few days before i went in for my test so that is why he prescribed my 7 day long anti-biotic pills. I am very hesitant to take anti-biotics for something i may not have because my results for breath and blood test came out negative and my stomach pains can be ANYTHING.
So i went to another doctor for a 3rd opinion and she told me to do the breath test again (just to be sure) and also to do a abdominal ultrasound to check my gallbladder, kidney, spleen, pancreas,etc. |
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Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:24 am |
| The (wild) oil of oregano is a very good recommendation and will not hurt anything, if in the meantime if you want to get a jump on this! |
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Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:24 pm |
BC girl,
I wouldn't begin to try and diagnose what is going on with you. I am as a rule a very healthy woman- but my weakness tends to be GI problems. Had an ulcer at 21, irritable bowel at 40, and had colon surgery when I was 45. The biggest mistake I made, was when I was having attacks of abdominal pain, about 10 years ago, I dealt with our internist, who ran the gallbladder series--negative. He started me on meds to "calm" my stomach. This went on for about 6 weeks- all the tests he ran were negative. He tried various meds. Finally my husband called the office and demanded he refer me to a Gastroenterologist. I saw him- he actually examined my abdomen, and figured out the problem. It was not a big deal- the colon surgery was not related. My point is- see the best specialist you can- it might save you a lot of time and worry. |
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Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:28 pm |
I wouldn't self-diagnose, I'd go to a doctor - I had really bad but intermittent stomach pains and nausea that would come and go, and when my boyfriend finally made me go to the doctor, I found out I had intestinal parasites! The little buggers were doing all sorts of weird stuff I didn't realize to my system, and I never would've guessed it.
So I'd get a professional opinion! Just my $0.02. Good luck! |
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Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:12 pm |
gl, how did you contract them, and how did you, or your doctor, treat the condition?
BCGirl, I hope everything turns out alright. |
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Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:17 pm |
| melanie haber wrote: |
gl, how did you contract them, and how did you, or your doctor, treat the condition?
BCGirl, I hope everything turns out alright. |
Honestly, I don't know how I got them! My strong suspicion is sushi (I'm a big fan, and I think these parasites are more common in fish than beef, which is the only other rare-ish meat I eat). But at the end of the day, there's no way to really know. 
I had to take HORRIBLE antibiotics, after giving a stool sample which was like one of the most demeaning things I've ever had to do - it's already a kind of gross procedure but I had gone to an urgent care clinic and the nurse there was just NOT that helpful when it came to dealing with the whole procedure, so that sucked too!
The meds I took were super-strong and upset my stomach a ton, so I had to gorge on food at mealtimes until I wanted to vomit, just so they wouldn't actually MAKE me vomit. I found the best thing to do was eat a huge, heavy meal, then take the drugs and go to bed about half an hour later before the gross feeling started. It was weird, they didn't make me traditional-nauseated, more like I could feel a chemical reaction happening in my stomach. Blech.
Anyway. NOT a fun experience, but my mystery coming-and-going stomach craps are gone, and I feel a ton more energetic and balanced. I just wish I knew better how to avoid parasites - I told my mom about all this and she apparently had them all the time from the water where we used to live! Gah! |
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