Ulcer 4 me I think???

Hello again friends and now I think I may have an ulcer!! Last week my bp was elevated and I had run out of my meds, so I drank some apple cider vinegar straight and immediately had some very terrible pains in my stomach. The pain was like some acid burning a hole in my stomach. Since then I've continued to have the pain, especially when eating or drinking water. It is a constant pain. I've been taking tagamet and it ease the pain for a few hours then it returns. Last night I drank some water about 1 am and thought I was going to die!!! I've lost almost 4 lbs since Wed when the pain first started. Will make an appt with my gastro tomorrow. I know I'll probably have to wind up being scoped to make sure its not bleeding if an ulcer is the problem. What else could it be and has anyone had an ulcer since the surgery!!!

Sure sounds like some type of irritation, Good luck! God bless Syndi

Well...... I had surgery on Jan 25th of 2005, the st 30th days was on previcid. All went fine. Then in Late Feb I developed nausea that was 24/7 until one day in Late april I felt something difference sort of a pain in the pit of my tummy. I was up in Denver and I was positive I had an ulcer. I self medicated with Prilosec and within 3 days NIGHT and DAY difference in the way felt. I stayed on the Prilose****il Oct when I then had a gastro scoping and they found no ulcer but said things looked loosed and said I had acid reflux and put me on Nexium. As long as I am on Prilosec or Nexium I am good to go. Then I had my one year with my surgeion and we discussed my symthoms and since I will poetentially be out of the US a lot next year we decided to do a lap procedure to take a took inside. I had that surgery on Tuesday the 13th of Nov not quite a week ago. Well no ulcer was found but he did find something called a blind pocket, which was an area of the small bowel the connection to the rouex-n-y area that was keeping some food in a blind area, andtaking some time to move down the correct way and out the small bowel. I hope this is the cause of my problems. I am having a lot of bletching right now, and am worried that this did not fix the problem I had. I hope it is just gass taking a long time to come on out. Long story short.. seems like your symthoms and mine were very very similar, so it is possible it is something other than an ulcer, but in a way I hope that it is just that for you , as that can be fixed faily easy. You could try some Prilose****il your gastro procedure but it takes about 3 days to take effect. Good luck to you I hope the problem is solved ASAP. At least you are doing something quickly that is the key. I think I took too long to deal with it and had months of misery.

I developed an ulcer 2 weeks after sx and I had sx on Jan 5th 2005 and I take Carafate and Prevacid everyday and still have the ulcer so I am going to have sx in Jan 12th 2006 to resect the ulcer so hopefully that will help. I know the pain you have it hurts like the dickens. I hope yours gets better. GOOD LUCK!!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Misty