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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 389448" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Please be SURE that anyone with constant hunger, esp if it seems "gnawing", is throughly checked for stomach ulcers. Years and years ago, when I was pregnant with Wiz, my mother had that symptom. She was ALWAYS hungry and it never went away. Finally she told her regular doctor instead of just the doctor who was treating her lupus and arthritis. We learned she not only had ulcers, but that she had had them for a long time and her stomach was severely damaged. The valve at the bottom of her stomach, the one that lets food into the intestines, was so scarred that it stopped opening at all. They were able to get her almost a year by using balloons to open it back up, but it was so bad that they always had to use the pediatric balloons rather than the adult ones. Even after the procedure they couldn't fit the adult balloon into the valve. Finally they had to REMOVE the valve at the bottom of her stomach along with all the little gizmos that make stomach acid. It forever changed her life and the way she can eat. Her ulcers were caused by medications that she was on and a doctor who ignored one of the major signs of ulcers - constant, nonstop hunger. </p><p> </p><p>MANY of the medications our kids take are hard on their digestive systems. How many say take with food, or cause upset stomachs, or have directions saying that you cannot lay down for 30 min after each dose? It is important to check for every possibility, and hopefully the problems can be fixed or at least minimized.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 389448, member: 1233"] Please be SURE that anyone with constant hunger, esp if it seems "gnawing", is throughly checked for stomach ulcers. Years and years ago, when I was pregnant with Wiz, my mother had that symptom. She was ALWAYS hungry and it never went away. Finally she told her regular doctor instead of just the doctor who was treating her lupus and arthritis. We learned she not only had ulcers, but that she had had them for a long time and her stomach was severely damaged. The valve at the bottom of her stomach, the one that lets food into the intestines, was so scarred that it stopped opening at all. They were able to get her almost a year by using balloons to open it back up, but it was so bad that they always had to use the pediatric balloons rather than the adult ones. Even after the procedure they couldn't fit the adult balloon into the valve. Finally they had to REMOVE the valve at the bottom of her stomach along with all the little gizmos that make stomach acid. It forever changed her life and the way she can eat. Her ulcers were caused by medications that she was on and a doctor who ignored one of the major signs of ulcers - constant, nonstop hunger. MANY of the medications our kids take are hard on their digestive systems. How many say take with food, or cause upset stomachs, or have directions saying that you cannot lay down for 30 min after each dose? It is important to check for every possibility, and hopefully the problems can be fixed or at least minimized. [/QUOTE]
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