I would have to say thus far that 2012 has been a very interesting year with regards to my personal life, albeit in a miserable and excruciating way. In getting my labs back regarding my bout with Sepsis, I was informed that I had been infected with the heliobacterium Pylori. Known officially as Heliobacterium Pylori (makes sense doesn't it?), it lives in the stomach and is believed to be responsible for virtually all stomach ulcers.
It is pretty much a Third World bug that infects people-almost always-in adolescence. Mainly human to human through food preperation and/or poor hygeine it is rooted in human fecal matter...yep, it comes from human shit. In my case I probably caught in Israel, or Southern Lebanon, in my first couple of years in the army. I caught dysentery twice, cholera once and toxic shock syndrome from a sore under my arm from the Toyota seatbelt I used as a sling for my rifle (gosh I miss that Galil SAR. Why we switched to M16s I will never understand aside from our great deal from Uncle Toucan Fucken Sam. Thank G-D those days are ending now that we are back with an Israeli rifle, the TAR21, aka Tavor). Let us just say that sanitation both in my battalion's main camp at the time, Machaneh 80 (Camp 80), a former Jordanian Arab Legion camp in the Jordan Valley. As bad as it was though, it was asses and elbows better than most anything in Lebanon, gosh what a shit hole (sorry Arzi but the South WAS, this was less than 6 years after that country's latest civil war had begun, destroying the nation's negligible infrastrure.
Pylori rarely manifests at all, merely existing in symbiosis with its human host. For unknown reasons a tiny percentage of infected people will develop ulcers and other gastrointestinal disturbances. Those that do will do so deeply. I did not manifest but ignorantly took my physician's advice and began a 14 day regimen of Prevacid, a 3-in-1 protocol consisting of an antacid and 2 antibiotics.
One of the antibiotics in Prevacid is Amoxycillin. This is relevant because Amoxycillin is related to Penicillin, a medication that almost killed me before my alleegy to it was diagnosed (an incident that took place in the New Jersey State Prison System (NJ Dept of Corrections) as I was transiting the state reception system but alas, that interesting story is best left until I resume my Life Story entries). Needless to say Amoxycillin and I were less than happy together.
My first 3 days on Prevacid were hellish. Because of the acid reflux caused by the attack on Pylori I had, if you can somehow imagine it, hiccups that-upon reaching the top of my throat- metamorphisised into screaming dry heaves. The result was a 9 to 12 hour bout with my face hanging in the toilet. On the third day I threw in the towel and discontinued the Prevacid.
When it rains it pours...
It is pretty much a Third World bug that infects people-almost always-in adolescence. Mainly human to human through food preperation and/or poor hygeine it is rooted in human fecal matter...yep, it comes from human shit. In my case I probably caught in Israel, or Southern Lebanon, in my first couple of years in the army. I caught dysentery twice, cholera once and toxic shock syndrome from a sore under my arm from the Toyota seatbelt I used as a sling for my rifle (gosh I miss that Galil SAR. Why we switched to M16s I will never understand aside from our great deal from Uncle Toucan Fucken Sam. Thank G-D those days are ending now that we are back with an Israeli rifle, the TAR21, aka Tavor). Let us just say that sanitation both in my battalion's main camp at the time, Machaneh 80 (Camp 80), a former Jordanian Arab Legion camp in the Jordan Valley. As bad as it was though, it was asses and elbows better than most anything in Lebanon, gosh what a shit hole (sorry Arzi but the South WAS, this was less than 6 years after that country's latest civil war had begun, destroying the nation's negligible infrastrure.
Pylori rarely manifests at all, merely existing in symbiosis with its human host. For unknown reasons a tiny percentage of infected people will develop ulcers and other gastrointestinal disturbances. Those that do will do so deeply. I did not manifest but ignorantly took my physician's advice and began a 14 day regimen of Prevacid, a 3-in-1 protocol consisting of an antacid and 2 antibiotics.
One of the antibiotics in Prevacid is Amoxycillin. This is relevant because Amoxycillin is related to Penicillin, a medication that almost killed me before my alleegy to it was diagnosed (an incident that took place in the New Jersey State Prison System (NJ Dept of Corrections) as I was transiting the state reception system but alas, that interesting story is best left until I resume my Life Story entries). Needless to say Amoxycillin and I were less than happy together.
My first 3 days on Prevacid were hellish. Because of the acid reflux caused by the attack on Pylori I had, if you can somehow imagine it, hiccups that-upon reaching the top of my throat- metamorphisised into screaming dry heaves. The result was a 9 to 12 hour bout with my face hanging in the toilet. On the third day I threw in the towel and discontinued the Prevacid.
When it rains it pours...
