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Stomach pain for months, need help!

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jonmg87
jonmg87

Hi all, I've been having stomach pain since February, and in May went to the doctor who diagnosed me with an ulcer. He prescribed Pantoprazole but I had another stomach pain attack about two weeks later. At this point the doctor put me on H Pylori treatment (2 weeks), although he didn't test me to see if I had the infection to begin with. I finished the treatment, and continuted to have ongoing stomach pain (that was at the end of June). The doctor told me to go off of the PPI for a month to do a urea breath test, which came back negative. 

In the meantime my symptoms have gotten worse, to the point where I now have constant abdominal pain in the center just below my ribs. The pain occasionally spreads to my upper-middle back. I also have yellow stool that floats.

I had to go to the ER 3 times this week, and have been back on Pantoprazole since last Sunday. I continue to have constant abdominal pain. I've had blood tests, urine tests, an abdominal ultrasound, CT Scan, and chest X-Ray, all of which came back negative. I'm waiting on results from a stool test, and am in the process of making an appointment for an endoscopy test with a GI specialist.

In the meantime, can anyone help me figure out what's going on? Is it normal for a peptic ulcer to take this long to heal? The first ER doctor I saw said my pain is probably because I went off of the PPI for a month (during the month I still had abdominal pain, although it came and went more often). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • akram17768
    akram17768 jonmg87

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    I was feeling entirely great, and I thought the medications were working. And after that during the evening around 7pm I attempted to have a solid discharge and had a sharp shooting torment in my abdomen (focus and to one side) that felt like somebody was cutting me. Wound up going to the ER, where the agony gradually died down over 90 minutes. I've had this agony before (6-7 times), however I expected the solution would have kept this from happening. I additionally felt bloating before the episode.

    I'm on an exceptionally strict eating regimen (steamed countenances, for example, rice, chicken, and vegetables) too.

    Does this mean the drug is not working or is something else amiss with me?

    • jonmg87
      jonmg87 akram17768

      Posted

      Sounds pretty much like what happened to me. What meds are you on and what tests have you had?
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