Upper Endoscopy
They are only looking for ulcers. If they find an ulcer; you will be put on meds such as prilosec, prevacid, nexium; to heal the ulcer. Ask you not to eat any spicy foods, or anything that will upset the ulcer. So we are keeping our fingers crossed that nothing will be found!
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Oh no it was nothing that had to be removed they just gave me some medicine to take for 14 days and then I had to come back have another scope done to make sure it was all good. My doctor said that if an ulcer goes untreated in a gastric bypass patient it can be dangerous. Now my current surgeon didn't require me to do an endscopy so... I don't know I guess its up to individual doctors.
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I didn't have any symptoms that I could recall at the time. The only reason I found out was because they did the scope. The surgeon was primarily looking for a bacteria that is shown to cause ulcers called a H. Pylori. When they did the scope they detected this bacteria. But after they diagnosed me I found that some of the symptoms I had was a pain in my stomach. After I stopped drinking caffeine the pain went away.
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