Peptic ulcer
 

Is there any way to know if you have a stomach ulcer? Im used to having stomach pains and stuff, but lately it has changed, it's like hurting in a different way than before. I'm not sure when to be worried, if there are any specific symptoms I should look out for?

It can be hard to distinguish an ulcer from other causes of 'dyspepsia' - the sorts of symptoms you get with ulcers - from syptoms alone. The only way to be sure is to have an endoscopy (camera into your stomach). The sorts of symptoms you might experience are upper abdominal pain (typically burning, may be felt as central chest pain) related to eating (either straight after eating or when you haven't eaten for a while). This can come If yoalong with a loss of appetite. It may be worse with certain types of food e.g. spicy food or alcohol.
Other symptoms which can occur include nausea, vomiting, vomiting up blood and melaena (black poo due to broken down blood). If you are noticing any blood (either in vomit or as black poo) then you really need to get checked out.

There are a number of other causes of the type of pain and symptoms you can get with ulcers e.g. the stomach lining may be inflamed rather than actually ulcerated and it's very hard to say what is your cause without a doctor actually assessing you.

Hi,
just wanted to ask if you figured out what the problem is?