Gastritis Support Group

Gastritis is a medical term for inflammation of the lining of the stomach. It means that white blood cells move into the wall of the stomach as a response to some type of injury. Gastritis has many underlying causes, from infection with the bacterium H. pylori, bile reflux, or excessive consumption of alcohol or certain foods or drugs like aspirin.

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loufromgermany 10/21/2015

Good morning,

I have just seen the thread on how long it takes until chronic gastritis is fully healed ... and I am a bit shocked. My husband and I want to try for a baby but have been waiting for nearly a year now as I fell ill with the chronic gastritis.
In my case it's located in the antrum and mainly caused by bile flowing back into the stomach. It has become much better but I am still not ok. However, I have read that pregnancy aggrevates bile reflux, and when I am thinking of how poorly I was last winter, I don't want to risk this!! I mean I can't just end a pregnancy when it's getting to bad ...

What do you think? Can I just risk it or should I wait? It's really stressing me a lot which is not good for my gastritis either. Do you think that if I am on sucralfate, the sucralfate will be protection enough to make sure the gastritis is not getting tooo bad? I am really despreate at the moment :(

If anybody has experience with pregancy and antrum gastritis, please let me know! Also any tips you might have in mind to give me!

Thanks!!
LOU

ablueflower 10/22/2015

Hi Lou, I had chronic gastritis and also waited to be cured before I got pregnant. I took medication for about a year or so and it was healed completely. During pregnancy I didn't have many problems, I had reflux only during last trimester. Anyway, I still suffer from gastritis occasionally (usually after stressful events), but it's not that bad, and it takes between a week and ten days to get my symptoms under control again. If you want a baby and you feel ready I should say that you go for it. Otherwise, you will think about it as long as you don't get pregnant. Hugs!

loufromgermany 10/22/2015

Thanks so much for your reply! It really helps to know that I am not the only one who has this problem!
Of course I would prefer to get the gastritis fully healed before. It's encouraging that you got it healed within one year! My chronic gastritis started in January. In the beginning it was very very bad and I could not do anything because of the cramps and the bile coming up. In June I think it had been 90% healed. Unfortunately I started to eat lots of stuff I shouldn't because I felt safe adn wanted to gain weight ... no wonder gastritis became worse again. At the moment I would say I am at 70% and back on track again. So I really really hope that I can wait until it has healed! Trying to be patient and keep telling myself that it will pay off and in the end I will be able to enjoy a healthy pregnancy ...

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