[catonsville]

They literally may have saved my life. In 1993, I was about to have extensive stomach surgery for bad ulcers. By coincidence, I had read an article the day before about Barry Marshall a "maverick "scientist who claimed that a bug caused most ulcers. For years I had been treated with dubious anti-acid and other medications and noddings of the head that it was all in my mind.

I mentioned to my surgeon about what I had read. He RELUCTANTLY gave me a perscription for two antibiotic's to be taken with half a bottle of Pepto Bismal.

In THREE days 16 years of suffering was over, my ulcer has never returned.

Barry Marshall has his own website. I wrote him what he had done for me and it was unbelivable he had not won a Nobel Prize. His remarkable discovery has affected millions of people.

His assistant E-mailed back indicating the Marshall has won so many awards that he is not really disturbed he never got a Nobel.

This time the Nobel Committee got it right.

[bellas_sister]

My husband has the same sort of story. We had just met in the early 90's and had so many problems with his stomach. We saw a show about this very thing and he mentioned it to his Dr. now he has never had a stomach ache since.