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Through monitoring illness prevalence, describing the disease's natural history, and identifying determinants or causes of the disease, epidemiologic studies serve as the cornerstone for disease control and prevention. Peptic ulcer, Gastric ulcer, ulcerative colitis and other GI ulcers is one the most prevailing disease in this running time. The major reason for this is un-healthy life style, alcohol and tobacco consumption, junk eating, and many other life style related activities beside the bacterial infection, any physiological body change and disease induced. Treatment include usage of many drugs, herbal products and many other home remedies. And where the concept of drug use arises, concept of ADR (Adverse Drug Reaction) arises itself. ADR is a reaction to a drug which is toxic and unintended and which occurs at doses normally used in man for disease prevention, diagnosis, or treatment, or for the modification of physiologic function. Many ADRs remains undetected or hidden during the clinical studies so a post marketing surveillance and a continuous epidemiological study is required for the detection of ADR so desired action can be taken and patients reliance, safety can be maintained. More than 100 patients were counseled during the survey and a data of about 52 patients were collected, presented, analyzed, interpreted and concluded about their diseases specifically seeking GI ulcer like abdominal ulcer, peptic ulcer, duodenal ulcer and related disorders like ulcerative colitis, Zollinger-Ellison, piles, any disease and drug induced GI ulcer patients. They were counseled about the treatment they were receiving, their satisfaction and any ADR if suspected, detected, or reported.