Pain Defined

So the doctor's first supposition of my pain was wrong. He put me on a strict diet to lessen the pain in such a case. Fortunately, the diet also helped to alleviate the actual reason for the pain--in that the portion sizes were small.

The doctor originally thought I was having tearing of the skin on my liver. Not so...(however the tests showed that it was a matter of time before that would happen if I didn't change my diet). I kept telling Mike that I would experience immediate pain from my consumption of acidic foods. It turned out that I have some sort of lesion, cut, or ulcer in the upper, right quadrant of my stomach. That accounted for the pain being related to exact foods. That accounted for the pain when I laid down to sleep....as the contents of my stomach would flow to the level of the lesion and there would be a searing pain that even went around and up my back. That also accounted for me not feeling pain when I was in a vertical position.

Anyway, it is so hard to get any sleep due to the pain; I now see why the pain killers did not touch the pain but, in fact, exacerbated it. I have to eat very early and eat hardly anything for dinner so that the contents of my stomach will be nearly empty to allow me to lay down.

My doctor is not seeing patients now because he is changing locations, but the nurse read me the diagnosis. I am hoping the prescription Krogers keeps emailing me about is something he prescribed to heal the lesion...but, of course, the new Obama guidelines have delayed my being able to get what he prescribed and they are having to go back and forth till he prescribes what the insurance wants.