In third grade every time i ate i would get horrible stomach aches, it got to the point where i didn't eat anything for an extended period of time because of how bad it was, at this point my parents took me to a doctor, they did a few tests and there was something wrong with my stomach, thing is they couldn't tell what. They gave me some pills to take to dull the pains and told me to see them next week. When i did they said they would need to do more tests but they had a general idea of what it was. The next week they took the tests and found out i nhad one of two simaler diseases. They gave me these pills, i took 3 of them 3 times a day for a looong time. Next i started getting bad heartburn, i was perscribed previcid and took one every day at lunch. Soon we learned some of my stomach problems were due to stress, i had very bad anger problems. They perscribed me prosac and i took one pill every morning. For about 2-3 years everything was good, but at one point i started getting a different kind of stomach ache, flare ups, a minor type of ulser or something. They gave me two different types of steroids to take on a scheduale i don't remember for a month, i did and it went away. In eighth grade i weened myself off the prevecid, i was smart and knew if i stopped to suddenly i would get sick. I did this without consent of my doctor or parents. Next i did the same with the prosac, my parents saw a change in my behavior and got me back on it though. About half-way through ninth grade i started to ween myself of the asacol, the pill i got after the second set of tests. Eventually my parents noticed and thought i stopped without warning and would go through withdrawls, they didn't believe i stopped slowly and weened myself off. I told them if i started freaking out we could go back but otherwise i didn't want to. That was 2 years aga, the only pill i take now is prosac. The reason i wanted to stop taking the medicine is because i no one could tell me exactly what the problem was or what the medicine was doing, i was sick of not knowing what was going on. So i told myself that i would become a doctor so i would always understand the reason i was taking what i was taking.