Bleeding gastic ulcer

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Registered: 10-01-2004
Bleeding gastic ulcer
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Thu, 11-03-2005 - 11:31pm

I was admitted into the hospital three weeks ago with a bleeding gastic ulcer. They catherized it and and I was sent home two days later. I was throwing up blood inthe ER and had to have a blood transfusion - 2 units!


Unfortunately we were hit with Hurricane Wilma a week later, and my follow-up appts. have to the postponed a bit as we are still trying to get electricity and everything else in the area stablized.


Does anyone have experience with this? All the websites pretty much say the same thing, which is not much. I'm 32 and female and the websites claim that this mostly effects men 40-60. The docs claim my case to be link to aleeve that I took for headaches, but it seems like it would be more than that.


In the hospital I also got conflicting stories about about here on out - some claim diet changes only until ucler is healed  - others claim strict lifestyle/diet changes from here on out!


Any info would be most appreciated! Thanks in advance!

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Registered: 10-01-2002
Fri, 11-04-2005 - 1:35pm

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