Whatever you do, don’t piss off your duodenum.
Posted by rebecca Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:07:51 GMT
That’s right. If you’ve never listened to anything I’ve said before, listen to me know. My advice will save you a lot of pain and money and time spent wondering why the hell these weird things happen to you for no obvious or apparent reason.
Do not piss off your duodenum. It hurts like hell when you do. I know this because that is exactly what I am suffering from, a pissed off duodenum. The technical term is duodenitis, which is a painful irritation and inflammation of the duodenum, or the passage from the stomach into the small intestine. My doctor did in fact tell me that somehow my duodenum had gotten really “ticked.” The symptoms are the same as for ulcers, and if left untreated, duodenitis can become erosive and eventually cause a duodenal ulcer, which is really difficult to heal because the duodenum does not easily regenerate.
Apparenlty, I listened to my body and caught things just in time. They figured this out by looking at the x-rays that were taken of my guts during my oh-so-pleasant upper GI last week. Usually, they find duodenitis from performing an endoscopy. THANK GOD I didn’t have to have one of those.
Anyway, I am now on the space-age proton pump inhibitor for the next six weeks of my life. And even though my doctor told me not to worry about what I eat, I decided to make a journal of what I eat and how it makes me feel, with the hopes that a modified diet will expedite the healing process. That’s right. I’m willing to give up my yummies in order to get better, because people, this hurts like hell, and if this is not even an ulcer, I can’t imagine what THAT pain would feel like. Frankly, I’m not interested in going there.
