How Do You Recognize The Symptoms Of Stomach Ulcers?
• Pay attention to pain in you abdomen anywhere between your breastbone and your belly button. The pain can vary in severity and duration, lasting anywhere from a couple of minutes to several hours. It often occurs between meals as your stomach empties, and could be described as a burning, stabbing or aching pain. • Often pain caused by ulcers can be temporarily relieved by eating foods that buffer the acid in the stomach, or by taking an over-the-counter antacid medication. • If your stomach pain is caused by ulcers, flareups may occur at night and whenever you are hungry. • Watch for other symptoms of ulcers that sufferers have reported. All of these symptoms don’t occur for all people, but you may experience a combination of any of them. • An increase in the amount of gas and burping. • A feeling of fullness and an inability to drink a lot of liquids. • Being hungry a couple of hours after eating a meal. • Mild nausea, most common on first waking in the morning. • An overall feeling
