I was fortunate to never experience severe pain from the duodenal ulcer. I did have some excruciating pain in my esophagus. The acid reducer fixed that. Hopefully you are getting better with acid reducer. It's an unpleasant experience.
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Ugggh- that doesn’t sound good-
[[I did have some excruciating pain in my esophagus.]]
Sorry to hear that- Must have been miserable! Sore throats are bad enough, but acid reflux can make it seem like heart attack happening- I used to carry tums when the pain started in throat, would radiate to arm, and I’d start sweating profusely. Every time though the tums would tame the flame- so i knew it wasn’t heart attack, but wow it sure felt like it coulda been-
- The pain in mine was excruciating- I went into convenience store bathroom, was standing at sink, and room began to spin wildly- I grabbed the sink and thought “This is bad”- next thing i knew I was coming to wedged between the toilet and wall (Disgusting filthy floor!) and blood covered me and the walls, in all directions-
I stumbled out of the room and a cop was in a car sitting right in front of the bathroom, and saw me, and rushed out- asked a few questions, ran to bathroom, and turned white- He ran into store and called the health center-
Doc had to give me transfusion- Said i was lucky to be alive considering how much i had lost- Said i likely would never get off PPI’s and told me to take peptol fairly steady-
[[Hopefully you are getting better with acid reducer.]]
Yes, much better, thanks- (Not that i am taking the rights meds for it lol- just told doc today about my boneheaded mistake lol)
Forgot to,mention, the duodenal ulcer,recently was due to really boneheaded mistake on my part... i didnt have my glasses on, and i combined what i thought was 2 bottles,of omeprazol... turned out it was flomax, so there i was taking flowmax instead of omeprazol, for who knows how long... that is what i thunk caused the ulcer.
Also forgot to mention that when i had the b,eeding ulcer, i was working at the time, but had gotten sick again and was losing strength and endurance, so i was, like a dummmy, taking aspirin to make it through the day, and herbs and vitimins. One of the herbs was Ginko Biloba... bad bad mistake for someone with bleeding ulcers, but i wasnt aware of that. That mistake nearly cost me my life.
To top that off, i was on prednisone at the time for the illness, at max dose, and i stopped taking it cold turkey. Noone ever told me not to. The headache i got from that was straight from hell.
That was a rough year.
I wont keep buggin ya, but i forgot to include context about my mistskes causing the health problems, so,they are a cautionary tale of sorts to those who might be as scatter-brained as me. Ive since learned to research before just trusting that a drug or herb is. Safe