It started Friday night while I was with my wife, her cousin and daughter at a restaurant. Without any warning, pains or cramps, I started passing blood in the restroom. A subject that was kind of hard to bring up at the table with 3 women enjoying their dinner.Finally got a message to my wife that we had to leave immediately so we drop others off at the house and went to the hospital emergency. Anyways, after being there from Friday night to Monday evening, a lot of poking and monitoring, living off an IV, an upper GI and a colonoscopy they figured out I had an ulcer form in my colon. All of this because of one of 3 drugs I had started taking for back and hip pain. The drug was Naproxen. I was told by one of the doctors at the hospital that the FDA is considering taking it off the market because so many people are having similar problems from it. The scary part was there were not warnings or symptoms of any kind until it was too late. I was lucky I made it to the hospital before I lost too much blood. Before the bleeding finally stopped, I had a sinking feeling that I was crapping my life away down a commode.
I would suggest anyone to do a little research before letting a doctor prescribe it for pain. On a positive note, I lost almost 15 pounds in 3 days!
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Originally Posted by Tx Champ
