Friday, Feb. 09, 2007 - 8:53 a.m.

The Ulcer Returns

Yesterday the Easter Bunny brought back my ulcer for my birthday!  YEA!!  I'm so excited to have to go back on antibiotics for two weeks.  I did this last year when it was determined that yes, I indeed did have an ulcer.  I got to take a trip to the barium buffet and suck down a luscious, scrumptious cup full of that liquid chalk then have my guts bombarded with innocuous radiation.  Truth be told, watching my stomach on the x-ray while the barium moved into it and spread around was actually cool and didn't gross me out in the least.  Fortunately for me yesterday, I didn't have to do the upper GI test.  I just told him that it felt like the ulcer was back, and he wrote me up a prescription for the antibiotics and Prevacid, which, next to Maloxx, is the greatest drug in the whole wide world.  I take the antibiotic with Prevacid for two weeks, then Prevacid only for a month, then go one month taking nothing and after that month, go in to take a breath test to determine if any Helicobacter pylori is present.  Its the bacteria that causes most stomach ulcers.  After my treatment last year, I never went back in for my follow up because I was in Jordan at the time that was supposed to happen.  Heh, I just went back to read the entry I made last year about being diagnosed with an ulcer.  That one is dated February 16th, almost to the day that this entry is being penned.  And I had more to add to this entry today but toddler and newborn distractions have eliminated those thoughts from my brain.