I've read recently that many gastric ulcers are being caused by a bacterial infection that was very hard to diagnose.
Very true one of my kids lived on tums etc. and finally a few shots of some kind killed the damn things.
I do the apple cider old time method, seems sometimes the stomach gets sluggish and cuts down on pepside output. Bland foods I guess. So a few spoonfuls of the Vinager ---GASP----- jump starts the production on natural pepsides and gets production naturally.
Yes I know, here you are bent over in pain and are told to ADD acid to your body, sounds crazy, but it works for us .
I have heard that people that eat a diet high in acids, South Americans and Asians ulcers are almost unknown in their country's.
If you vacation in their country's and become ill from ulcers the Doctors and Hospital may see only one patient with ulcers every 5 years. The theory here is people that go from birth to death with a high acid diet keep the stomach from getting lazy and shutting down the pepside protection .
When one takes a Tums this takes care of the acid and the stomach gets even lazier. Come to a point when the body depends on outside forces to protect the stomach.
Good School friend went into alternative healing and saved my sanity with this knowledge-----An RN,
So Frank, do you still have your Gallbladder ?
Then if you have for 35-40 years slept on just one side your body organs may have all adjusted to spending 8-9 hours a night all moving up to lay against one another. As you age the organs may be changing and time to try sleeping on your back.
And this is not an easy habit to break. My Chiropractor gave me a lesson on this. All my life a belly sleeper, he showed me how to align pillows so I had no choice but to lay flat out like I was dead in a casket. Took weeks until I could sleep on my back, the old laying on belly and side to side was a subconscious act, I asleep had no idea what I was doing.
Sort of like sleeping on your back between rows of sand bags, no way to roll over.
Took 4 weeks before I could sleep soundly in this position, not just internal organs but my hips and legs. arms. spine. and shoulders objected. My lungs had to adjust as well as my heart. Every thing in its place and not crowding other organs.
It takes years to undue old habits these start at birth, us old folk were put to sleep on our stomach's so if we spit up up we would not choke. We raised our children this way and today we are told this is a no no. Baby's go on their backs, not their sides just flat on their backs.
So you have slept on one side most of your life, now you have pain doing so. You may have heard of the Palmer institute, the students are doctors that have Md's and gone another 4 years into the study of the spine-----Cracker Backers. ----
Have to realise the Huge number of phonies out there but if you can find one that is the real thing it is surprising to see what they Can do.
BIL hurt him self in a fall, doctors wanted to operate, the poor man could not bend over enough to put his key in the ignition of his truck. Then Hubby sent him to his chiropractor poor BIL needed help getting into the car. He came home after just on adjustment standing tall and I can tell you I could not believe it. He went back 3 times and that was that, problem all gone.
