9th November 2007
Healed with medication? Allegedly, yes.
Most ulcers (including mine) are at least partly caused by a bacterial infection called H Pylori. PPI's, or even ordinary old Tums, will make ulcers stop hurting temporarily. You need antibiotics to cure an infectious ulcer, however. Combination of the right antibiotics and a PPI (triple therapy) will knock out an ulcer in a couple of weeks, over 90% of the time.
Lucky me, I'm allergic to all of the most popular drugs to treat H Pylori. There's a chance I could be cured using tetracyclines alone, but, since I don't have true bleeding ulcers, and PPI's control my pain, my GI didn't think that a not-so-good chance of a cure was worth putting me through a month of tetracycline therapy.
As far as your issues go, if the burning in your stomach continues, especially if it is still troubling you while you are eating carefully and on some form of antacid medicine, you should probably talk to your dr about it.
Most ulcers (including mine) are at least partly caused by a bacterial infection called H Pylori. PPI's, or even ordinary old Tums, will make ulcers stop hurting temporarily. You need antibiotics to cure an infectious ulcer, however. Combination of the right antibiotics and a PPI (triple therapy) will knock out an ulcer in a couple of weeks, over 90% of the time.
Lucky me, I'm allergic to all of the most popular drugs to treat H Pylori. There's a chance I could be cured using tetracyclines alone, but, since I don't have true bleeding ulcers, and PPI's control my pain, my GI didn't think that a not-so-good chance of a cure was worth putting me through a month of tetracycline therapy.
As far as your issues go, if the burning in your stomach continues, especially if it is still troubling you while you are eating carefully and on some form of antacid medicine, you should probably talk to your dr about it.