Hey girls I feel your pain just reading these posts made me cry ....I so feel your pain I've been dealing with a big ulcer that caused internal bleeding caused me to become so anemic 3 blood transfusions 14days in the hospital ..6 weeks on tpn and 2 endoscpoies ballon dillations that helped a little with my stricture ...and now what my GI dr is telling me for the long term run that they might need to reoperate to remove the none healing ulcer ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm so sick of being sick at this point and I'm do depressed