Thanks Chris...
One word of caution for all of you:
My internal bleeding was caused by me taking ibuprofin, aleve, and asprin for body aches and pain.... I assumed that because they were over the counter, they were safe to take... That was a wrong assumption...
I have been taking them for about four years... Sometimes on and off, and sometimes in streaks - like last November when I slept crooked and had a crook in my neck for a month before seeking a chiropractor... It took 8 weeks of weekly chiro visits for the pain to get under control and I used ibuprofin every day, sometimes twice a day to get through the pain... And many times on an empty stomach... I usually took aleve for my chronic lower back pain caused by getting rear-ended by a drunk driver speeding over 80 MPH back in 1988.... I switched to asprin lately because of my shortness of breath thinking I may have cholesterol build up in my arteries which may have contributed to my shortness of breath and the asprin would help thin my blood and break some of the cholesterol loose...
The hospital told me that the safest medicine to take from now on when I need it is Tylenol...
Stay away from ibuprofin, aleve, and asprin...
If you have to take any of those, make sure it's not on an empty stomach....
From now on, I'm gonna suck it up and try to just deal with the pain... Tylenol as a last resort....
And always read the labels for side affects...