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sylvrn · 2 years ago

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this is kind of out of the blue, but if you have chronic pain/illness and have taken NSAIDS for a long time (aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, etc.) please watch out for stomach ulcers!

my mom has had issues with endo for several years and we just thought it was the worst coincidence that she got bad enough pain to warrant going to the ER on my birthday two years in a row, but it turns out that she took more NSAID painkillers so we could enjoy my birthday (😭) and it made her existing (not yet diagnosed at the time) stomach ulcer much worse. the kicker is that she had asked if she might have an ulcer the year before, but the doctors dismissed it (using year-old test results 🙄), so we started pursuing the much less likely diagnosis of thoracic endo instead (breathing problems and pain fit the bill)...

now that she's finally gotten surgery for her endo her pain related to that has improved a lot, but the ulcer is still a huge problem (pain+breathing problems+unable to walk for a long time+the one medicine that is helping with her endo-related problems makes the stupid ulcer worse), and with the healthcare system as it is it's taking forever to get it even checked on... at this point we think she'll probably need surgery again to fix the ulcer (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ) please watch out for ulcers in advance if you can!

#chronic illness #chronic pain #endo #she just started trying something called deglycyrrhizinated licorice which had a surprisingly quick effect #of course we have to research it a lot more and see how it affects her before I would feel comfortable recommending it to anyone else #but it's a little hopeful #but yeah fuck doctors who look at old tests to dismiss current concerns #if we had caught this earlier her life would have been SO MUCH EASIER #what we thought was an endo issue for years was a fucking ulcer which is so much easier to treat... if you know what it is 🙄#doesn't help much that endo is so poorly understood so far #we just thought it was another stupid way the endo was presenting #especially since the doctors said her endo 'couldn't cause sciatic pain'#and yet when she got surgery her sciatic pain improved a LOT #the new doctor we have is so thorough and patient and explains everything so clearly to us instead of handwaving everything #I'm so glad she believed my mom #this is kind of a rant but #yeah #there's light at the end of tunnel but the tunnel is much longer than it should have been #doctor tw #medical tw

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