#ulcers

[mildcharacterenjoyer]

Note to self: a snack bag of Chips Ahoy™️ is not enough food to take 600mg of ibuprofen with. 😣

[elisecairo]

[cfs-crohns-colitis-warrior]

Why can I no longer type text in white and have to choose a different colour?! Anyway, not the point of this post.

Why can’t pharmaceutical companies make tiny tablets with lower doses for people who struggle to take tablets?? Not everyone is a behemoth with a huge mouth and throat with no problem taking tablets the size of their fist!

I’ve been prescribed iron tablets but they’re quite big so I can’t take them and cutting them down makes them still awkward and sharp which is uncomfortable with ulcers in your throat. I even asked the GP before he prescribed them if they were tiny tablets and he said yes! These doctors need to reimagine their definition of tiny. I have some tablets that are smaller than a tic tac and they’re fine, and that’s what I mean by tiny.

But why! Why can’t pharmaceutical companies not just make some smaller? We asked at the pharmacy and they don’t have any smaller ones in a smaller dose that I can take more of, and we can’t even get any over the counter to tide me over until we figure out what to do next. It’s just bloody stupid. And then a family member comes along and says ‘why don’t you crush it?’ Like it’s going to be easy to crush the whole tablet into a fine powder and then mix it with a drink and it won’t taste like ass? I’m not doing that twice a bloody day.

I know I must sound proper up myself and stuff at this, but when it’s as difficult to take some tablets and in certain ways like it is for me, you kid of end up sounding like a douche about it, because people don’t usually understand. It’s very frustrating, and it’s all well and good for the doctors and pharmacists to be like ‘oh but it’s easy, just do this’ but they don’t have the same issues and what’s easy for one person isn’t easy for another. Surely there must be some smaller tablets around for like, if children need iron tablets and stuff? I mean, you can’t expect little kids to take huge tablets can you? Surely not…. Anyway, rant over, apologies.

[stone-cold-groove]

When your peptic ulcer needs a change.

[er-cryptid]

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[soobadnoonecanstopher]

Ate some pineapple at 3pm and have been feeling like I’m actually dying since. Add it to my list. Pineapple, tasty, but burns like fire from the inside. 🤕🤕🤕🤕

[wtf-fun-factss]

Dr. Barry J. Marshall proved to the medical community that ulcers weren't caused by stomach acid by drinking Helicobacter pylori bacterium. He developed stomach ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics, and went on to win a Nobel Prize. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934498

[physiologicdeadspace]

Three wax legs showing treatment of ulcers caused by syphilis, Science Museum, London