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I've had bleeding ulcers before - it took me years to figure out exactly what was going on. In college I kept having gnawing pains and got a barium x-ray, then a few years later the pain got a lot worse and an endoscopy confirmed the ulcers. In my case it wasn't h.pylori but the fact that the doctors at student health kept prescribing ibuprofen for my migraines and it finally ate away at my stomach lining. So I'm not allowed to have NSAIDs anymore. I went on Nexium for a while and it never came back!

Let me tell you why you SHOULD get this checked out - a few years ago my friend kept asking me if I thought her heartburn and pain might be more serious, and I kept telling her this story. One day she suddenly went into septic shock from meningitis and came very very close to dying. It turned out she did have ulcers, and they enabled the meningitis bacteria to cross over into her bloodstream very quickly.

@spaniellove: Holy moly!!

I've heard there are two main types... One hurts less when you eat and one hurts more when you eat. I haven't actually had one but I did have a bout if mild hypochondria LOL. Hope you feel better!