Dan21
19-12-12, 19:24
Has anyone had a stomach ulcer?
I was at the doctors last week with general stomach discomfort and he thought it was IBS.
The thing is that over the last few days (today especially), I've had a gnawing sharp pain in one particular area. If you drew a line between your navel and sternum, well my pain is about halfway up that line and just to the right of it. the NHS help page says that this type of pain and this location is symptomatic of a duodenal ulcer.
My HA has gone stellar today as I'm trying to cope with the thoughts of it being stomach or pancreatic cancer. The doctor examined my abdomen last week and he didn't seem too concerned but the discomfort seems to have focused in this one area. If I go back to the doctors so soon I'll look like a fool but if it is an ulcer and I leave it too long, I'm scared what might happen.
Any words of support would be really welcome (and apologies to the good people who have already replied to recent posts of mine; this bout of HA seems to be pretty fierce).
---------- Post added at 19:24 ---------- Previous post was at 19:05 ----------
Perhaps what I should ask is - has anyone had the same symptoms as me and it turned out to be anxiety?
I'm going back to the doctors but am interested to know if anyone has had these same pains and it was down to stress/worry rather than a) an ulcer or b) something worse...
I was at the doctors last week with general stomach discomfort and he thought it was IBS.
The thing is that over the last few days (today especially), I've had a gnawing sharp pain in one particular area. If you drew a line between your navel and sternum, well my pain is about halfway up that line and just to the right of it. the NHS help page says that this type of pain and this location is symptomatic of a duodenal ulcer.
My HA has gone stellar today as I'm trying to cope with the thoughts of it being stomach or pancreatic cancer. The doctor examined my abdomen last week and he didn't seem too concerned but the discomfort seems to have focused in this one area. If I go back to the doctors so soon I'll look like a fool but if it is an ulcer and I leave it too long, I'm scared what might happen.
Any words of support would be really welcome (and apologies to the good people who have already replied to recent posts of mine; this bout of HA seems to be pretty fierce).
---------- Post added at 19:24 ---------- Previous post was at 19:05 ----------
Perhaps what I should ask is - has anyone had the same symptoms as me and it turned out to be anxiety?
I'm going back to the doctors but am interested to know if anyone has had these same pains and it was down to stress/worry rather than a) an ulcer or b) something worse...