The return of the ulcers | Arthritis Information

Well here I am back to jello and broth, ulcers started back up again. At least I have the MI adult help insurance to help pay for my meds. I get so weary of this...was just getting used to enjoying pizza and Mexican food....even though sparingly, not anymore! Oh well, life goes on and the sun still rises.

Prayers and positive thoughts welcomed!

jode

You have my prayers and all the positive thoughts i can send. That just doesn't sound any fun at all. Feel better soon.Nope, ulcers are absolutely no fumn, they hurt, make ya feel sick and well some other stuff I just do not care to share, it would gross you out! lol...oh so not funny!

I guess I am used to it and caught them before they got too severe...rather, I figured out why I was feeling icked and sickly like I was getting the flu. At the very least I know what to do and how to take care of them before they get super bad. THis is why I must have a full time job if I am to work. If I work part time, I lose all the medical aid and my health issues are just is too expensive no to have the coverage. I believe it is better known as a

"CATCH 22"

jode

Thankyou Milly..... what a crummy day!

I am hearing you on the catch 22. I often think i can't afford to work. I go to get the medicine and can't afford it and think what am i doing? I doubt i could pass a scope right now, but unless i start bleeding or something I have so many other health issues to address. I just convinced my self i must have the flu or the sinus infection has turned my tummy raw and bloated. I have one constant sore place in my tummy. The last few days it feels like a balloon about to explode. If i retired i might have insurance that would cover everything, and time to be at the doctors all of the time. I wouldn't have the gas money to get to the appiontments then. Thankfully, I can say I have never really had mouth ulcers but they sound awfully painful. Healing thoughts and hugs. Sending healing thoughts your way.Oh...man don't I know it! Oh Milly...I am sorry, I meant to identify them as stomach ulcers....the bleeding kind, I had to huge ones. My Rheumatologist said that they were very impressive...so that means they were really bad! lol....I still have the photos of them.

jode

What are the first signs of an Ulcer? I've been having a little pain/burning issue. I just drank a huge cup of coffee and it seems to have triggered it this time.

The problem is if you do not take notice of them and begin treatment right away you can become anemic if you begin vomiting blood or passing blood...that is the scary part of it.I understood you meant tummy ulcers. I was talking about the the scope the doctors go in with the camera and look at your insides, not the mouthwash. I was saying if i had one done i am sure they would find something.Oh Milly...got it....meant to write michele and I cannot edit.....ulcers....let me see ....the way you know is when you have severe pain in your stomach....I found out by waking in the middle of the night and vomiting and diahrea constant black smelly stuff...(blood)...then I became very light headed and blacking out.

Poor Tim, I think he was as scared as I was! He had asked me what I ate...I told him that I ate one of his candy bars ( the forbidden ...lol) crying I told him I was sorry and I would never do that again.........little did I know it was not from the candy nor the sneaking the candy but a major health prob.

You live and ya learn.

Jode -

How are they treating the ulcers? Why did they come back?

Hugs,

Pip

I have a prescription I take for the ulcers, rest and fluids. Dang they hurt! If I still notice blood (black tarry stools) in the next few days Iw ill go to my PCP....but I doubt that my insurance will cover it....dunno, maybe they will.

Lots of jello and broth, no regular food for a few days.

jode

I am considering going to visit friends here in the next month, maybe I will need to make an appt with my RD for then......doubt if I could get in for that time though. I really ahte being this sick, there seems to be no end in sight and it is difficult to support myself under these circumstances.

jode

Well sweety don't bleed to death. Coverage or not you need a blood test to see how much blood you are loosing. And yes i am yelling for Pip. I understand you have this before and they did not do much for you. That doesn't give you the ability to know how much blood loss you are having. Sometimes we have to sit around at the eroom even if we don't feel like it or can not afford it, life is not fair but we have to stay alive to complain about it. Take care of your self lots of rest and fliuds. But don't play guessing games when your bleeding please i care about you.I guess for me this is a scary subject. My dad almost bleed to death from bleeding ulcers when i was ten. It happened very quickly and the way he looked i will never forget. It was trumatic for me to see my father so near death and he certainly would have died without blood transfusions.Jode -

It's antibiotics - right??? Ulcers are 95% 'cureable' now. If it's not antibiotics - please go get a second opinion. Do a Google search - this is important and will influence your RA.

If it is antibiotics - tell me that he put you on probiotics? If not, please get some as low gut flora will make your RA worse.

Hugs,

Pip

I hope you get a speedy recovery, i have been having these my whole life.

When i was a kid, i didn't know i had RA, so all the soars i got were washed with salt water in my mouth by my mom. Talk about pain lol.

But, i only had one back then. These days i can get 3 or so at a time and i always hope they will be on the same side instead of all around.

It makes it so hard to eat.

I hope you recover soon, stay away from salt!

THe blood is disipating in my stools so it is getting better. I just rest and will go to my PCP next week if any bleeding continues. I do not feel as though I am blacking out or light headed so I will be ok. I know how dangerous it can be......oh do I ever know how dangerous it can be, been there.

I have a presciption that shuts down the pumps in the digestion tract/stomach...I take one in the A/M and one in the P/M . When and if it gets worse I will go to my Dr.

Thanks for caring...it means a lot...

Because I care - please consider this a 'virtual' slap!

Wake up! (she says with love!) Your doc is...self-interested. He needs to go.

This is an article that shows why, 25 years after the H. Pylori was proved to start ulcers, only 46% of gastro docs prescribe antibiotics. Instead they use PPI's (that to remove stomach acid but DO NOT ALLOW YOUR LIVER TO REGENERATE if needed) instead of 'curing' your ulcers. There's no money in 'curing' you.

http://www.jyi.org/features/ft.php?id=101

This is why you have RA (or one of the buggers). This is from a news release. This is why we get heart disease. (Or c. pneumonia).

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005322398

Bacteria That Causes Ulcers Travels In Blood System To Cause Other Diseases

October 27, 2006 5:43 p.m. EST

Linda Young - All Headline News Staff Writer

Umea, Sweden (AHN) - People who suffer from atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis might blame it on their ulcer.

Researchers from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) working with European researchers found that the peptic ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) can reach blood circulation.

That allows the bacterium to travel throughout the body and it might cause not only atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis but other chronic inflammatory conditions of unknown origin, Newswise reported Friday.

An article describing the groups findings will appear in the October issue of the PLoS Pathogens Journal. The researchers included: Andre Dubois, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, surgery, and emerging infectious diseases, and chief, Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies at USU, Drs. Cristina Semino-Mora and Hui Liu, Dr. Thomas Boren, who is professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Umea University.

Dubois' latest observations build on a 1980s landmark study by the 2005 Nobel laureates Barry Marshall and Robin Warren of Australia. They were the first to show that H. pylori bacteria causes gastritis, peptic ulcers and stomach cancer, one of the most common types of cancer worldwide.

With hugs,

Pip

""Because I care - please consider this a 'virtual' slap!

Wake up! (she says with love!) Your doc is...self-interested. He needs to go.""

Confused here PIP.....I cna see why , however, that an antibiotic would be necessary. I fully trust my PCP and my RD...I Will be giving my PCP a call. Honestly, I cnanot remember being on antibiotics last time my ulcer hit...the initial time. I do remember the scope which was fine, never cause any discomfort afterwards.

jode

Sweetie -

A scope won't show ultro microscopic bacteria hiding inside white blood cells or in your intestines. If they didn't give you antibiotics then they are ignoring the fact that Marshall got the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 'curing' antibiotics in 2005 - that's how ground breaking his research is.

The part that gets my knickers in a twist is - here it is over 25 years later and AFTER the Nobel Prize and only 46% of Endo docs are prescribing antibiotics? Why is that?

Get a new endo.

Pip

P.S. I'm guessing the usual 2 weeks of antibiotics may not be enough if it's already 'leaked' out of the gut - which it did as you have RA. But...it should stop the bleeding. If not...demand more.

Please don't think I'm being mean about him - I care about you, not him.