"Hey, you think it was easy, dragging your wife and kids along during migrating season with the wife always complaining and the kids asking 'Are we there yet?'"
Posted on 02/08/2007 3:53:13 PM PST by blam
except for the part where we came "out of africa" more like 175,000 years ago...
I'm sure it's a coincidence.
L.O.L.
Doing the ulcering North Americans wouldn't do.
I had h. pylori last year and the cure for it was a nightmare. If it hadn't gone away, I told my gastro she would have to hospitalize me and do an IV drip before I would ever take that combo of meds again. Ghastly!
"Hey, you think it was easy, dragging your wife and kids along during migrating season with the wife always complaining and the kids asking 'Are we there yet?'"
I wondered how many posts would be posted before the wife remark came in. Somehow it occurred to me, too.
I suppose that depends on how you define we.
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"Stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long-standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa.
I guess that makes us all African-American, n'est pas?
"Most cases of peptic ulcers and gastritis are caused by H. pylori, not spicy food and stress and spicy food as many thought until the 1990s. These conditions are now widely treated with antibiotics effective against the bacteria.
Just remember, not ALL cases, only most. The gastrointestinologists test for it, and if it's not there, then your ulcer is caused by something else.
I suffered from ulcer problems for 20 years. Had to sleep sitting upright many nights. Couldn't have a beer. Spent a fortune on Maalox and Tums. Had many upper GI studies performed. Took every new medicine that came around. Finally asked a new internist about an H.Pylori test. Came back positive. A simple two week regime of an antibiotic and Prilosec cured me. Had a terrible taste in my mouth during the last week. But I was cured! Thirteen years without pain or Maalox. No diet restrictions. There are some indications that h. pylori may be the cause of several problems including coronary and arterial. Don't hesitate to ask your doc for the blood test. It could improve your quality of life.
I remember the scorn heaped on the first researcher to say that ulcers were caused by bacteria. He overturned a lot of received wisdom.
True, but he was only right in 80% of cases. Someone has to be in the other 20%.
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You are right though, my life is much better than it was before getting rid of the h. pylori. I still have to take a proton-pump inhibitor every day, but the one pill takes care of everything
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