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What Leads To Stomach Erosion Inspite Of Taking Aspirin And Ibuprofen?

I have a history of stomach bleeding have had upper and lower scopes two different times in the past year as well as a capsule endoscopy all found stomach erosions have noticed dark stools again and had my hemoglobin checked it is slightly down again 12.6 (down from 13.4 last month) (was at 8.9 in april) I used to drink alcohol fairly regularly and took a bunch of asprin and ibuprofen ( at times up to 8 200mg) a day for a week or two at a time. stopped all asprin and ibuprofen use last june and all alcohol use last October. but have maintained a pretty spicy diet and stress levels of work, divorce, etc have been pretty high. have been taking prescription acid blockers and now told to supplement with gaviscon...any suggestions?
Mon, 13 Jul 2015
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I have reviewed your question. It seems you have chronic acid peptic disease. Increase the dose of acid blocker(ppi. Esomeprazole) to 40mg twice daily.
You can use gaviscon for symptomatic relief.
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What Leads To Stomach Erosion Inspite Of Taking Aspirin And Ibuprofen?

I have reviewed your question. It seems you have chronic acid peptic disease. Increase the dose of acid blocker(ppi. Esomeprazole) to 40mg twice daily. You can use gaviscon for symptomatic relief.