Helicobacter Forums

I am newly diagnosed with this. My symptoms started three months ago. At first I had the flu, a sinus ifection, and bladder infection, i started having panic attacks in the middle of the night. Bad insonmia, winter depression and it made me very sick. A week into them i started getting this burning in my chest. I have been in and out of the hospital twice with gasritus(sp). I have a full nights sleep one night, i am up all night the next.The nurse poked a needle in me wrong, and I was screaming in pain. I am not looking forward to that again. The insomnia has been going on since i got sick, and its getting worse. How can I sleep with this stuff? I read that everything I had before i was diagnosed are symptoms of it. I just need relief fro the pain and sleep. Please help me.

Where are you having pain? In the stomach? Chest? Is it constant pain or does it come and go (IE: when you eat) Is the inability to sleep due to physical discomfort or is it mental/psychological factors that prevent you from being able to sleep? I have a lot of anxiety as well, especially when something is going wrong and I cant control it. I was recently diagnosed with H. Pylori as well but the only issue I had that sent me to the doctor was chest pain that showed up one day and seemingly never left, for over a week. I am a little over half way through the treatment now and chest pain has returned for me, and is causing me a lot of anxiety, worrying that it could be esophagus cancer or something serious. Anxiety is the worst thing in the world, especially when your body is already sick or dealing with some complication, because Anxiety works against you; amplifying the pain, throwing the body into panic, and often tearing up your stomach or affecting your appetite. The generic thing to say is to try and be calm, and not let anxiety run away and make things worse. I know first hand however that its easier said than done, as anxiety isn't really something you can mentally control. Im not a dr, so I dont want to try and recommend things to take, but I wanted to let you know that youre not alone right now in this condition. Im fighting a lot of anxiety with chest pain as I type this. When I have trouble sleeping Unisome knocks me out pretty good, but you need to make sure it will be ok to take something like this if you are on other medication.

Have you started H. Pylori treatment yet? Have you had any kind of Upper GI test or endoscopy? If not you may want to schedule an appointment with a GI doctor.