I have been getting burning in the area to the right of my stomach for the past month or so. This started after I had been really worried about the Covid pandemic. The tests I have had so far via my GP- a raft of blood tests, urine tests, abdominal ultrasound, chest x-ray, and two bowel cancer screening tests - have all come back clear. I have gone to a private consultant and had a MRCP MRI scan and that too has shown nothing except a small hiatus hernia. I’m waiting for an endoscopy in early July but am really worried that there will be something really serious found. I’ve continued to have this strong burning and my GP gave me Omeprazole in case I have an ulcer which made me feel much worse. He’s now prescribed Gaviscon in the interim because you have to come off PPIs before an endoscopy. My concerns are - will leaving 4 weeks before the endoscopy cause things to get much worse, for example a perforated bowel and would the medical doctors have left me to wait if it was an emergency?
