Teresa @hopeful33250 - I'm fine to share. Here's the story: From the time I had my knee replacement in late January, I was nauseated. As the days wore on, it varied from mild nausea to being totally unable to keep anything down. By week three, I was in severe pain and unable to tolerate even drinking water. I went to the emergency room. They determined I was bleeding internally. They blamed it on a bad reaction to Celebrex, the anti-inflammatory drug I was prescribed. My understanding is that Celebrex is in the NSAID family, but not supposed to be as harsh. Anyway, they took me off the Celebrex and gave me something to heal up my stomach. But the GI doctor said she noticed that this was the year for my colonoscopy, so she wanted to do an endoscopy whenever I scheduled the colonoscopy, just to make sure that the Celebrex really was the problem. I wanted to get all this medical stuff behind me as soon as possible, so I scheduled both of those procedures for last Friday. By that time, I was 12 weeks out from my knee surgery and it had been two full months since my ER visit. So I really was not having pain or serious symptoms, but I still had enough lingering nausea and occasional stomach discomfort to feel like something was not right. Obviously, it wasn't. They found the ulcer and now they have prescribed 10 weeks of Protonix morning and night, soft diet, and not a sip of wine until the next endoscopy. Hopefully, I'll be the picture of health, moral fortitude, and digestive purity by mid-July!

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