Earlier last year, when I was working in a Gym Kids club, I got infected with H. Pylori. Following is my journey through the process of diagnosis and healing myself in natural ways instead of antibiotic usage. Initially I started to feel a mild stomach pain, which comes and goes on and off. I was planning on visiting a doctor but the appointments were hard to get. I started to diagnose myself. I fasted for a day and realized there is no pain. Then on consuming food, the pain is more when the food is more. Furthermore, I realized the pain started after 45 minutes of eating. On extensive research, I found out that the timing makes it a duodenal ulcer and it is mostly caused by H. Pylori bacteria. It took 10 days to get an appointment and forcefully getting the doctor to test for H. Pylori which was positive. I was prepared with a plan to combat H. Pylori having decided not to take the proton pump inhibitors or the antibiotics which the doctors suggest which may or may not work always...
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