if you find that you have pain that wakens you at night, chances are that it s an ulcer. if you feel unusually full after eating, and it lasts for a while, chances are it s an ulcer. if you have a heaviness and bloating and dull pain all the time and you throw up when you shouldn t, that is probably an ulcer, too. i was going to tell you, if you are losing weight unexpectedly, that s an ulcer, but i d worry about losing weight being something else, like a tumor. as long as we are talking about ulcers let me tell you the commonest cause of an ulcer is bacterium that can be detected and it doesn t cause symptoms in many people but it can be detected by a blood st or breathing test
and there are the prevacid and the h-2 blockers and they reduce the amount of acid in the stomach, the h-2 blockers are tagamet and pepcid and the latest study shows that people who take aspirin on a regular basis and who are candidates for problems with the aspirin, should take the proton pump inhibitors, rather than the h-2 blockers. the nexium-time drugs, the prilosec and the nexium, are more protective than the other category and i have a good tip for you, too. anybody who is taking aspirin on a daily basis, who is vulnerable to these problems, should get a blood test or a breathing test, to see whether they have the bacterium in their gut called h pylori. it is silent and 50% of people