Bleeding stomach ulcer. What to do?!

Mental health
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Hello,

After some advice please, as I am panicking too much.

About 3 months ago, I went to the doctors because I was passing blood on my stool (I waited about 3 weeks to see if it stopped before going). It was a suspected ulcer from ibruprofen overuse. The GP wasn't overly worried. But I have felt lousy for 6 months plus prior to this. I put it down to anxiety and low mood.

I was taking ibruprofen daily for so long because I was struggling with a bad anxiety flare up (still am). I was grinding my teeth all night and kicking in my sleep (restless legs) so I was constantly waking up with headaches and leg tension / pain and just a general exhausted mess.

After seeing the GP I immediately stopped ibruprofen and started omprezola to help heal my stomach. My symptoms improved massively after 3 weeks and bleeding stopped. I was made up.

I have recently flagged my garden about 2 weeks ago (was a lot of heavy lifting) and since then I have been really off physically.

I have had a lot of pain in my stomach area, to which I assumed was muscle strain and I have been unbelievably fatigued. I spend most my days asleep which is so out of character, even with high anxiety I muddle through. I have had leg pains, tension headaches and just right down right feel ill. I am breathless with the smallest of physical burst of activity and my panic attacks are in full motion.

Turns out, I might have pulled my stomach or upset my ulcer and I am bleeding quite a lot when I go the loo (sorry!) again. The GP thinks the ulcer is causing the breathlessness (despite it being a classic anxiety symptom).

A trip to the GP again has referred me for bloods ASAP and an endoscopy.

The bloods revealed I have very low Vitamin D though. Everything else was perfect.

Could this Vit D explain why I have felt so ill and down for the past 6 months with fatigue, headaches, tiredness and just a mental fog or is it just coincidence with the ulcer bleeding?

I definitely struggle with anxiety but that came second to this after being run down for so long. I take propranolol as needed with no side effects really and manage for now.

Can anyone relate?

Thank you.

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Hi Thomas, I also have recently been diagnosed with extremely low vitamin D, I was exactly the same as you, really low mood, sleeping all the time and generally feeling rough, after taking a high dose of vitamin D every week now for the past 4 weeks my mood and energy had definitely improved, I couldn’t believe I could feel so Ill just by having a victim deficiency. Hope you get everything else sorted to 

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Low vitamin D causes anxiety.

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That is great to hear, I am glad you are feeling better and seeing improvement.

It's had me thinking if the deficiency has caused everything to start with now.

The GP has started me on a high dose supplement for 15 days, then 1 a month for 5 months. Curious to see what happens now.

I ,amazed though the effect this deficiency can have