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The handful of times I've had ulcers in the past it was certainly correlated with stress. Perhaps indirectly through some other effects, but stress feels like

The handful of times I've had ulcers in the past it was certainly correlated with stress. Perhaps indirectly through some other effects, but stress feels like part of the equation IME, at least for some people.

xenadu02 2y ago
Stress can aggravate ulcers, as it can aggravate any number of underlying conditions. Similarly eating spicy food can make the symptoms of acid reflux much worse thanks to capsaicin in the refluxing acid. But in both cases the root cause is something else.
manmal 2y ago
You likely have chronic heliobacter pylori infection and should really look into that. It’s a silent killer and that way beyond just ulcers since it’s a potent acetaldehyde producing microbe. Tests are often false negative because they can hide in places, eg Candida vacuoles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8101746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8101746/
- leogao 2y ago
  Is there a better test than the one that is normally prescribed, to distinguish the false positive cases you describe?
  - manmal 2y ago
    AFAIK testing for those just isn’t very good, sorry.
  - retrac 2y ago
    Antibiotics are diagnostic in a sense. Take antibiotics active against H pylori. If your ulcer goes away, it was H pylori.