Late last year I had2 stomach ulcers which were diagnosed after a endoscopy. I was tested for H Pylori but didn’t have it, was prescribed omeprazole and the pain mostly went away.
It has still been niggling since then though. I’ve seen gp about it a couple of times, they've seemed unconcerned as pain is relieved when eating and with omeprazole.
For about 6 weeks now the pain has been getting steadily worse. I doubled my dose of omeprazole and it doesn’t seem to alleviate the pain at all any more, the pain also gets worse at night to the point I can’t sleep and I’m often just wandering the house whimpering in pain. In the last month I have lost over a stone. For the last week I have had bloody diarrhoea and last night I started vomiting which was also blood streaked.
I finally spoke to gp this morning (long story but I’m going through a divorce and have sole care of 2 dc’s so simply haven’t had chance to go before now). He seemed completely unconcerned, said it was almost certainly gastroenteritis and that I didn’t need to be seen. I started crying on the phone and asked what I should do about the pain and vomiting blood. He said as it was bright red blood it’s nothing to be worried about and I should take paracetamol but make sure I don’t take ibuprofen.
I don’t know what to do. I’m in so much pain that I can’t eat or sleep. I can’t stand up straight so can barely shuffle up the road to collect dc from school. I’ve had gastroenteritis before and it was absolutely nothing like this. It lasted a few days and then I was better. This has been getting worse and worse for months and I am just in so much pain all the time. It feels like something is clawing at the lining of my stomach.