I'm already suffering since a year. Have good and bad times tho. But I gave up all supps and meds now.

I've talked my GI professor shortly before and he keep saying that you can eat whatever you wish, just be calm and think positive. Your stomach is ok, but your mind need to be relax. Confused a lot!

Weird fact but I even ate KFC, Burger and Mc 2-3 months ago and those were totally troublefree. I remember the time that I've eaten Whopper without any prob, but I came back my home and ate just 2 strawberries and nausea started with it. I just don't know how the things work.

Also, if tastes of my meals are good, I definitely feel better. This is why I'm not sure what must I do.

Brown rice, any type of beans or lentils & chickpeas with tomato sauce, cooked tomatoes and onion are my faves. But any gastritis patient should avoid it, right?

Absolutely avoid it if it bothers you!

I am guessing tomatoes and onions are bothering you, right?

Onions are a major no no.

Ask yourself why have you had these symptoms for a year? Have you been extremely disciplined for most of that year from a diet point of view? If the answer is no then you know why you are probably still suffering.

The anxiety may also be continuing the symptoms. it just adds to the problem. What started the problem? Are you naturally an anxious person? If the answer is yes, then you have to work on that and the diet at the same time. It is harder to heal this if you dont use acid suppression as well. Can you take Zantac at all? It is not like a PPI.

The doctor doesnt sound very sophisticated to me. You have to trust yourself and your instinct.

Gastritis is weird. Junk food can be OK for the stomach.

get help with the anxiety. If the mental part is the problem and your symptoms go away.... then it is all anxiety based. Usually it is a mixture of the 2.

Dont eat strawberries. They can be bad for this. It has something to do with texture and the seeds maybe. Not sure. Just eat what doesnt bother you. it is the only way to get better and get help if you have anxiety.

If you think you dont have any anxiety,,then what the doctor is saying is wrong.

Many on this site get more anxious over eating once they have gastritis. Get help mentally if you are in this same situation.

You have to take charge of this yourself. Stop eating the foods that are making you have nausea.

Thanks for your detailed reply.

The problem is that I can't find the answer tomatoes or onions irritate my stomach or not! Sometimes I can tolerate them sometimes not.

I'm just wondering that type of gastritis (chronic with low inflammation) can causea a year of nausea? Answer of docs is absolutely no! They all think my nausea is related to anxiety, my stomach is ok. I'm not an anxious guy tho but that nausea makes me anxious. When I feel good, my mind starts to say that nausea will come soon etc.

I know the fact my anxiety definitely triggers nausea but I think it's not the only problem.

I had a right diet 4 months ago and was feeling good. At those times I mostly eat oats, yogurt, only a few raspberries as a fruit, milk kefir, brown rice, toasts, lentils & chickpeas (plain) and that's all. It suits bland diet if I'm not wrong. At least it doesn't bad at all. I can eat like this again, if you suggest me.

Thanks a lot.

If you look at some of the posts over the years, you will see you can have nausea for a long period of time. It is a very common symptom and can be the only symptom.

Go back to that diet that worked for you. You have to.

What you think about it being more than just anxiety is probably right.

Read some old posts and you will see nausea can go on for a long time.

Chronic gastritis with mild inflammation can cause a bunch if symptoms, especially if you are not managing the diet well. People who are diagnosed with mild inflammation also question it because they can feel absolutely terrible. So even mild inflammation can make you have many symptoms.

To me it is easy.. if sometimes the tomatoes and onions are not good that tells you you cant take the chance on them. The times they bother you just reverses any progress you have made. Anything that bothers you one time,, dont have it again. That is the smartest way to go with this. There is a build up effect as well. You can get away with things for a time and then boom you have bad inflammation again. It can build up over a day or two and you think it is ok for you but it just takes time for the inflammation to be felt. The cycles of acid impacting the stomach are varied and not predictable.

Gastritis is tricky.

It is hard to do the boring diet thing but i know for sure it is the only thing that works and taking care of anxiety is the other key to this issue.

Listen to your body and face your new reality. Dont keep hoping you can eat the same way you used to.I think part of you is hoping that you can still do that. Denial is part of this problem for many people. Dont be in denial. You will just end up with gastritis that gets harder to get rid of.

Also go and look at another persons healing approach to gastritis. He has done a whole write up of how to heal it.

go to shihonage and read his treatment approach. he is a pro on this issue. he details it step by step.

He doesnt respond on here too much anymore. He is the most knowledgeable though.

he provides his website. it is called gastritishelp... i think..

I'm digging his posts right now. Thanks a lot. Found that topic shortly before and the same story as mine. Please check it when you enough time,

http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Gastritis/forum/18856531-running-out-ideas

Docs keep saying me same thing. "If you bring 100 people in here and take a stomach biopsy, 95 of them will have gastritis" blabla

Also, let me tell you something. Well, I have BigMac meal tonight. I was feel nauseous and when I finished that meal, I felt better. And after 2 hours, I feel almost %100. At those times, I was with my friends. Relax, calming times. I was non-stressful. Just was enjoying the night. But I came my home and nausea began with it. I have many examples like this. Those things make me think that my nausea is related to anxiety as I said before.

Nevertheless, I'll keep my diet clean as much as possible.

"Weird fact but I even ate KFC, Burger and Mc 2-3 months ago and those were totally troublefree. I remember the time that I've eaten Whopper without any prob, but I came back my home and ate just 2 strawberries and nausea started with it. I just don't know how the things work."

There's a delayed payback effect ;)

It's like coming to the dentist and saying "there was a gust of wind and my filling just flew out", while in reality, the filling was disconnected by bacterial activity over period of months, and the gust of wind was just the last straw.

Nausea IMO is a signal that your stomach lining is getting damaged by the natural presence of stomach acid. You may try just taking PepZin GI and see if it provides enough protection, but I don't think it will.

Nausea is not to be "endured", it should not be part of a "normal life" of a gastritis sufferer.

You may need to start trying a mild protocol of ranitidine, and possibly amp it up to full protocol (150mg every 12 hours). Start with taking 75mg before bed. That will probably not be enough, so then switch to 75mg every 12 hours. If that is not enough, you may be stuck with 150mg every 12 hours.

See website in my profile for more info. I have not updated it in a while, but the basics are there.

My GI said the exact same thing!

"if i took a sample of people on the street, their stomachs would like exactly like yours does..."

Doesn't mean I'm not in pain!!

He actually doesn't even think I HAVE gastritis, but i know i do.

but yes i've also noticed that there's no real rhyme or reason when it comes to what makes you feel sick. sometimes oatmeal doesn't even settle well. and i have also noticed that when i'm alone or not busy, the nausea definitely seems to kick up.

shihonage,

Thanks for your reply. Your totally right. I just want to live like a normal person and I was confused a lot as you can see. I really want to know reason of my nausea. Anxiety or chronic gastritis? ALL DOCS I've met think that answer of that question is pretty easy: Anxiety.

We are in same boat with jane1986. Docs don't even think that I have gastritis! Sometimes water doesn't even settle well.

Well, Ive approached the point of being cured for one time, shihonage. You mentioned that baked salmon is easy on stomach on your website but I was feeling almost %100 approx. 4 months ago but eating baked salmon on every dinner destroyed my life again at those times. I was lacto-ovo vegetarian at those times. Brown rice, lentils, toasts, eggs, goat cheese, a few yogurt, oats and that's all as I said before.

Why did you think Pepzin GI cannot help me alone? By the way, I've ordered it yesterday.

Oh, and also, my "scoper" GI doc is my best friend's dad. I talk with him too much. He even told that mmh, anxiety triggers his nausea, there's no important thing in his stomach during the endoscopy! lol I remembered that as dreamy.

Mild chronic gastritis, no atrophy HP or something. Slightly redness on antrum. That's my diagnosis.

PepZin GI may work alone, but it is not very likely. Its function is heal stomach lining. This lining should not be constantly irritated by excess of stomach acid at the same time.

In early stages PepZin GI by itself may provide enough acid neutralizing activity to fulfill both the "healing" and "acid reduction" functions, but if you've had nausea for a while, the acid issue is probably more severe. Hence, you're probably going to require Zantac/ranitidine as the second part of the solution.

I do not mandate that everyone eat salmon. It's just an example.

I believe eggs to be a bit harder to stomach than salmon, but if that kind of stuff works better for you - good.

Got a question for you.

You suggested that I need to use rantidine. Well, I've used PPI before but I'm sure that they don't help me at all. So I'm not sure rantidine could help me or not. And also not sure my problem is acidity or not.

Nevertheless, I'm gonna go for bland diet. Basmati rice, plain chicken breast, toasts, cooked veggies, rarely banana and no other fruits at least for a while, rarely junk, a few bites of goat cheese, occasionally milk kefir and lil bit of yogurt.

It cannot be wrong if my all problem is gastritis.

By the way nausea is not my only symptom. Nausea is persistent but I feel sometimes dizzy. Even after drinking water. That's weird.

Keepin track of the diet is a real pain. I have been having oatmeal with strawberries for breakfast with no problem. The other morning when eating it the strawberries tasted a little sharp and I got rotten tummy ache for the rest of the day. Very hard to keep track.

Totally agreed: This is what I mean. And this is why I don't know what to do. But I won't give up. Even the docs I've met keeping say that diet is not necessary for gastritis patients. Nevertheless, I'll keep my diet clean as much as I can. But some foods really cause a pain, always. Like grapes or melons for me.

Some of the biggest problems I have are with drinking water, so it's good to see I'm not alone