Certain foods and drinks may be more likely to make your pain worse. These include regular and decaffeinated coffee, tea, chocolate, meat extracts, alcohol, black pepper, chili powder, mustard seed and nutmeg. You may want to avoid these things if they bother you. But keep your diet balanced. Try eating small, frequent meals when you're having pain.
Ulcers sometimes can lead to other problems.
Get help right away if you have any of the warning signs in the box below. You vomit blood. You vomit food eaten hours or days before. You feel cold or clammy. You feel unusually weak or dizzy.