I am 37 years old and have suffered from severe stomach ache since I was a child. During all my hospital visits, the stool tests turned up something for which I was given medication, but the aches continued. in 1997 I experimented on some antibiotics and Amoxicillin helped relieve the stomach ache. From then onwards I started taking Amoxicillin each time I had a crisis. In 2007, I had a medical emergency that felt like a heart attack. I rushed to the hospital and for 3 days doctors did not diagnose what was wrong with my heart though my heartbeat was highly irregular. Eventually I was discharged but I refused to leave the hospital because the stomach ache was excruciatingly painful. The doctors performed endoscopy on me and found that I had gastric ulcer. They didn t say how serious it was but they gave me a combination of drugs and I immediately felt great relieve for the first time in many years. A few years later, the aches started again and antacids only gave relief for a few hours, so I returned to Amoxicillin. Last year, I had a serious crisis and Amoxicillin did not work, so I did some research online and found that there is a bacterial infection called H. Pylori, which causes gastric ulcer. I took treatment for H. pylori and had relief as long as I took the drugs. I stopped taking the drugs after 2 weeks and the aches returned even stronger. I researched and found an alternative treatment for H. pylori in cases of resistance to the first treatment and took it. The aches subsided again, but only as long as I was on medication. Then I started looking at other possible reasons for the aches, even though it was concentrated in the stomach area and not below. I took a dewormer and Entamizole DS. I had relief for about 1 month, then the aches returned. It is so bad I feel pain in other parts of my abdomen too, sometimes getting to my head. In addition to the stomach ache, there is a sharp pain in my lower left abdomen like a needle piercing me. There is also pain in my upper middle abdomen just below my sternum. It s very painful lifting my left arm above my head, and I have a hollow feeling in my stomach area. I tried Omeprazole but it did not work, so I am back on the following combination: Amoxicillin, Levofloxacin, Clarithromycin and Omeprazole. I am also taking Turmeric powder. I fear that the relief I now feel may only last as long as the drugs I am taking. Doctors now attribute my symptoms to gastric and often dismiss me with a prescription of antacids and proton pump inhibitors but these obviously do not help long term. This stomach ache has really affected my life. It gets worse when I sit down to study or when I lie down to sleep. I feel it less when I am up and about. I am at a loss what to do next, and would very much appreciate your advice. Thank you.