# Pity Me! I am writhing in pain!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 12, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pity-me-i-am-writhing-in-pain/174767 "2003-05-12T19:07:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pity-me-i-am-writhing-in-pain/174767/1 "2003-05-12T19:07:33Z")

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I have a Peptic Ulcer. I do not want to have an ulcer, but, that’s what I got. I have had this little friend for just over a year. Most of the time, the little tyke stays asleep and does not bother me. Yesterday morning, however, it woke up at 5am and wanted to play. I have been writhing in pain since yesterday. It would hurt like hell for a little while, I would dose it with Nexium, and it would subside for an hour or two, only to rise up again.

I woke this morning (after finally getting to sleep at 4AM), and felt great. Hurrah, the ulcer is gone! A little over an hour later, it’s back. I feel like crap, my back hurts, I can’t eat anything, we are out of Tums, my daughter has my car, my husband is out of town, I don’t feel like driving anywhere, I am popping Nexium like candy and have had so much water I could easily drown. Anything I eat, besides Jell-o, angers the ulcer.

Lord, make it stop!!

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pity-me-i-am-writhing-in-pain/174767/2 "2003-05-12T19:13:13Z")

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Bummer. I dealt with one for years. Took Tagamet and all sorts of expensive stuff but nothing ever worked.

Then a friend’s dad told me about Estomacurol. I had to travel down to Mexico to get it but I’m convinced it saved my life since my ulcer had started bleeding and had put me in the hospital a couple of times.

There’s nothing illegal in it, it just forms a patch over the ulcer, is very basic, and allows it to heal.

That was 20 or so years ago. I went from being flat on my back 3 days of every month to nary a problem since.

Little brown plastic bottle, blue label.