I'm bothered by recurrent acute pains in my upper stomach. When it had happened before this year it had passed within thirty minutes.
I went to the emergency room for it Tuesday night, when it was worse than usual and lasted longer. They took some tests but didn't find anything: wrote it off as acid. That day, I had taken ibuprofen for my wrist, so the theory was that it would have caused more acid than usual. Stared into the COVID ward next door. Got home at 6 in the morning.
Got it again tonight. Hurts like hell. I've got to be more careful. I haven't taken any ibuprofen: only diklofenak-cream directly on the wrist, to avoid the stomach. I've also had chocolate and juice. No more of that in the future!
But I'm afraid that it could be caused by something more nefarious such as cancer, that is yet to be diagnosed. I've read up that stomach pains, with acid reflux could get worse if there is an obstruction (such as a tumour) somewhere within the guts. I carry a hereditary increased risk of several types of cancer, including cancer in stomach and pancreas ... and that's a constant fear in the back of my head.
I've got a gastro-endoscopy coming up in two weeks (postponed since April because of COVID, and which I could have got pre-COVID back in February already if I hadn't been assigned a retard doctor back in December). I'm afraid of what it might reveal.