I was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer following an endoscopy in hospital last Friday. I'm still in a lot of pain and have not received the results of the biopsy yet, to see whether it was caused by H. pylori. However I have a couple of questions regarding it! (I'm 19, and male and until all this appeared over the last ten weeks I was healthy. Should add I'm on omeprazole, citalopram and movicol for an impacted bowel)
Firstly, after I have had things to eat/in the evening it makes me feel very breathless and have a tight chest? Is this normal as I wasn't told about this, I understand that it will still hurt a lot but I'm worried it could be due to my heart because I've had some pains in my left arm as well. I'm hospital the only abnormal thing about my heart that was mentioned was the fact that my blood pressure was very up and down, even getting up to 148/92 at one point.
Secondly if my ulcer has been caused by H. pylori would it be unusual to get muscle aches all over my body, if it has been undiagnosed for a long time. I get constantly aching muscles and joints and these were all searched for through thorough blood tests at hospital returning nothing from tests like mono, Lyme disease, lupus etc, so I'm wondering if pylori can cause these, or could it be that my stomach just won't digest as well at the moment. I should also last I've lost a stone of weight reasonably quickly (over 6 weeks)
Any help on these couple of questions would be much appreciated!
Peptic Ulcer - Stomach Ulcer questions?
Question posted by Alimog on 13 Nov 2013
Last updated on 12 March 2017 by Srr1111
3 Answers
H. Pylori could be the issue but there are numerous other things it could be and it's not usually found what the cause is if initial treatments eradicate the infection.
If you haven't already, you should see a rheumatologist, some of your symptoms are more in their specialty and even after being tested for H. Pylori or Lupus, you only know that test didn't show a positive. Some of the blood tests for certain illnesses never even give a positive on a test but eventually doctors may still be able to diagnose and treat based on exclusion of other diagnoses.
While waiting for your test results you will wang to change your diet. No chocolate, caffeine, spivey foods, alcohol of any kind, and one of my docs said no dairy but each person is different. See if you have ciliac disease(sp) it's a food type allergy. I agree about arthritis or fibromyalgia. Both would cause over all pain in major muscles. Arthritis is more of young joint pain and tissue pain depending on which form of arthritis. Just keep pushing forward. Have you looked into Crohn's disease it IBS irritable bowl syndrome?
Ps ask your doc about the magic drink aka lidocaine and another mix. It helps numb the tummy for a while. Ulcers are extremely painful!!! So no your not going crazy. Ask for nausea meds if that will help keep food in your tummy. You need to eat food that's light and easy to digest.
Funny how drs are. Mine said avoid alcohol only.
That's so odd. Mine was like you can have fruit and mashed up potatoes and rice basically. I thought I was going to starve lol.
See now that's interesting because the hospital told me to drink lots of dairy products like milk! However I have tried to change my diet in the week since I've got out of hospital to a much healthier one, some people have suggested honey as an option?
I haven't looked into crohns really but I know my friends brother has that and his symptoms were quite similar to mine!
I'm going back to the doctor tomorrow for a check up so yeah I will definitely ask for that. Thanks for the help!
Good luck at the drs. Bring with you your questions writen down so you don't forget any. I always forget one or two.. Lol hope you get some good results and it's just the ulcers. Fibro is not fun. Makes thing take longer to heal..
Ulcers don't cause pain in other parts of your body. Depending where it is in your stomach, the pain can be at different areas of your belly, but that's about it. I've had 9 ulcers in different areas and they only caused pain in my belly. I've found that to ease the pain, eat smaller meals more frequently and drink milk. Things like Maalox are also good for coating the ulcer so it won't hurt for a short time. Has anyone checked you for fibromyalgia? When you've got pain all over for more then 3 months and all the other things have been ruled out, you should have a physical for it. There is no test, its pretty much just ruling out other things. Perhaps see a rheumatologist for the all over pain.
I've been suggested of conditions like fibromyalgia and ME but it's just so painful sometimes it feels more than that. Can stomach ulcers not cause a feeling of tightness and fullness after eating which may therefore affect my chest? I just feel incredibly bloated and full which is making me dizzy and seeming short of breath!
Yes, I forgot about the chest, yes you can get referred pain up your esophagus causing chest pain. Believe me, I've had fibro since I was 5 yrs old and I'm 66 so I have allot of experience in it, the pain can get pretty bad sometimes.
I have out it down to fibromyalgia because I also suffer from depression and I think the two are linked? I know my uncle suffers from very similar symptoms and that's what they diagnosed him with so maybe I've just got accept that's what it is!
Thanks for the help by the way!
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