Apologies for not providing an update on my ulcer. It took two weeks after the PEG tube surgery before the pain from the ulcer was gone. Thank goodness it did not take longer.
The whole time, I was quite puzzled as to why the ulcer pain started immediately after the surgery and lead me to think that the pain initially was from the surgery itself. Two days after the surgery, it finally occurred to me that the pain is from the ulcer. But if I had the ulcer before the surgery, why was there no ulcer pain prior to surgery?
On the day that the ulcer pain was nearly gone, I got a letter from my GI surgeon stating he had performed a biopsy on my ulcer to test for Helicobacter pylori, which is associated with 80% of all ulcers. Well, the results were negative, which is good, but the doctor failed to mention to me that he had done the biopsy during the day of my PEG tube surgery. I'm no doctor, but I'm guessing the biopsy may have contributed to the two weeks of pain and discomfort! I thought the doctor did a great job, but perhaps he could have mentioned those minor details to me on the day of surgery.
