lilj888
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Agree with the others. Either it's GERD, gastritis, pancreatitis, or your gallbladder.
I'm leaning toward gastritis given your recent alcohol binge. If it's gastritis, then definitely take a proton pump inhibitor (Nexium, Protonix, OTC Prilosec, etc.). For gastritis, the recommendation is to take one of those (OTC Prilosec will be the easiest to obtain) along with overlapping it with an H2 inhibitor (Zantac, Tagamet, etc.).
Usually I treat gastritis patients with double dose PPI (e.g., Prilosec one tablet every twelve hours) for 2-4 weeks and overlap the PPI with Zantac 150 mg every twelve hours for the first week since it takes about a week before a PPI starts working properly.
Some common characteristics of various pain:
- GERD - worse an hour or so after eating, worse with lying flat like at night
- pancreatitis - solid pain, usually doesn't wax and wane, worse after eating; pain typically center of stomach radiating to back
- ulcer - usually gets better with eating, only to worsen an hour after eating
- gallbladder - pain occurs after eating, worse at night (around 1 am since cholecystokinin peaks then -- causes the gallbladder to contract); pain usually epigastric or right upper quadrant and can radiate to shoulder
sounds like gastritis to me, if its from the alcohol would it subside on its own or become worse, i drank friday felt it saturday, today is monday its still bad but im not constipated anymore
and will takin these have any effect on the dbol im taking like making it less effective
and you are a doctor i presume?
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