I have gastritis and IBS but the IBS didn't kick in for 12 months after gastritis got me. Balancing two different diets is a nightmare. Did you have the bloating and belching before you added the olive oil?
I stayed with olive oil and small amounts of butter at first and had no trouble. For my bad fats weren't an issue until IBS came along.
After several years I can eat deep fried foods safely. Not that I do very often.

Olive oil Hard to digest indeed ! Had more indigestion symptoms later hours later on but no burning. I don't have any belching/bloating if I stay on my diet but the olive oil did bring those symptoms.

I think I'm not gonna mess with olive oil , definitely hard to digest at least hardest than egg yolks which I have no trouble !

Maybe I'll just an add an egg to the potatoes, I'm sure that will help but then again I read having too many eggs is bad for gastritis but I do fine with them. I'm confused on what to do.

Too much protein bad, big meals are bad, too small meals are bad.Fat is bad, egg yolk is bad. Cereals are bad. Bananas are good, apples are good, yet I can't tolerate any fruit.

:S Fiber bad too some say!

I think fiber/protein (one you can tolerate) are the best for gastritis, they soak up the acid instead of it eating your stomach. I think rice is bad if your stomach is in the worst possible condition ever ! because it just creates more acid and theres nothing for the acid to work on except your raw stomach . I remember I could tolerate rice a year ago no problem and the diet was so easy ! Now its a hit and miss !

Me too. My choices have become few as well. I use butter and it works for me. Eggs, I can't eat anymore, neither can I eat apple, and rice is becoming problematic too. Rice Krispies cereal is ok, with banana, and a little preserves added. I can tolerate milk too, but only use about half a cup. I am in a bad place right now as well, I ate a sandwich made with deli turkey, lettuce and mayo. It set me back to square one, so I empathize.

I do olive oil(I only fry my eggs or meats or fish in tiny amounts of it before I sautee them) without any problem.I also do coconut oil on gluten free bread instead of butter or in my oatmeal.I have no problem with these well not anymore.I also use butter occasionaly.I have used coconut oil even when my stomach was real inflamed but I had to keep the calories so I used this oil with oatmeal,rice etc

Sara I can eat rice with egg whites or potatoes/carrots but not by itself it seems our stomach can't cope with just food on it it has to be food that soaks up the acid.

I can't do hard boiled eggs, poached eggs go down just fine ! I found a nice way to do them online.

I used 40mg pepcid before bed and had almost no pain all night it lasted me 8 hours maybe....but I don't want to use too much pepcid it can't be good. Zantac gives me side effects unfortunately.

@Sara what do you eat right now maybe that can give me some ideas. I tolerate chex rice cereal well too but its I can feel it scratching my stomach, gets rid of the burning though soaks up all the acid for hours. You can try brown rice Sara very well chewed I have feeling we can tolerate this better than regular white rice.

@joham I may try coconut oil but i feel like its gonna burn me to the grund.

I use coconut oil and am ok. I wonder why poached egg v boiled - its so hard eating these days. Porridge with soya milk and mashed banana and some manuka honey really sits well with no bloating or cramping or stuck belches. Can you eat this. Its very soothing and lasts you for hours and is healthy which is a big bonus.
Hugs faithful27 and all.

I think this is just so frustrating. Like you say Gwen, Im in pain with a boiled egg, but not any other way they are cooked, then I'm fine. I'm really having trouble remembering to eat these days. Two doctors say I've got to re-wire my brain to want to eat again. So far today, 2 bites of toast. Not much more than that yesterday.

Hello again, I do well on chicken, it can be fried but I dare not eat the coating, peas and carrots, bread with butter. Water is my beverage. Antacid meds no longer work for me, so I don't take them. I used to eat eggs and potatoes often but now they just sit in my stomach and give me a horrible aftertaste. Oatmeal and brown rice cause bloating and pain. These also kick off bladder pain for me. White rice is so bland and seems to make everything sit like a rock in my stomach so I don't eat much of that. I do drink a lot of water. It is very soothing for me. I tried PepZin GI once and it gave me kidney pain, so I didn't take it anymore. Same with Carafate. But that's me. There was something wrong with the prep, or the colonoscopy itself, that I had a couple of years ago and am still dealing with the effects from that. My stomach, bowels, bladder and kidneys are all very sensitive to many things now.

I get the same thing with olive oil. I usually tolerate oil that is cooked better than others for some reason. Some people also find that refined oil is better than unrefined and extra virgin as it has less ingredients.

I used to have a lot of coconut oil but that is quite irritating for me. At the moment I just have to make do with a low fat diet.