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Byline: Sarah Van Boven
Besides the pain, I never really minded having an ulcer. How embarrassed need you be by a stomach condition aggravated by such glamorous substances as coffee, alcohol, and cigarettes? When I was diagnosed, just after graduating from college ten years ago, I secretly believed peptic ulcers to be a sign of an intense personality-the sort of malady that would afflict one of Dashiell Hammett's brooding antiheroes and force him to grimace when he threw back a shot of scotch. So last fall, when I admitted to my internist that the medication I had taken for years, ranitidine, didn't actually do much to combat the gut-twisting nausea
that ...