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.
39 Yr male just figuring out that after all these years of horrible days that would come and go was Gastritis. I could remember from the time I was young that certain foods bothered me. When I had pizza I would get a headache and when I ate a piece of a raw union my stomach would immediately bloat up and a headache would soon follow. These are things I was fully aware of but I wasn't aware & and I never put the two together until recently. I was tested for everything and had hundreds of needles put into my arm for alergy testing to figure out why I was always feeling sick and wiped out. My lower left back area always starts to feel achy and my energy level is almost zero. I then say I need to start eating healthy and then go on a strict diet thinking i was eating bad so that's why I was always feeling sick. I would go on a potato and chicken diet for about a week and then go off of it because I started feeling better. Almost like a someone stop taking anti depressants because they start feeling better..>Well, the reason your feeling better is the medicine Dummy. Well, Same goes for me. After about 3-5 days I would start feeling like my self again and then just stop eating the chicken diet. Then a couple weeks later I would start the process again of feeling like i was getting sick but never develop the full symptoms of the flu. My symptoms are as follows in order:
1: Headache from indigestion. Something I ate messed me up.
2. Bloating and a tinge just below my left breast bone.
2. I start becoming withdrawn and not wanting to do anything. I avoid friends and just become a hermit. My wife Hates it.
3. Feeling achy and especially my left lower back just has a dull achy sensation.
4. I feel week in the arms and legs immediately after eating. Im on the couch for days.
5. Im told to start eating better.
6. I go on a chicken and potato diet that I put together on my own.
7. I soon start to feel better
8. Then the Cycle starts all over again.
This horrible process started for me at a young age but progressively got worse
Has anyone experienced similar
1: Headache from indigestion. Something I ate messed me up.
2. Bloating and a tinge just below my left breast bone.
2. I start becoming withdrawn and not wanting to do anything. I avoid friends and just become a hermit. My wife Hates it.
3. Feeling achy and especially my left lower back just has a dull achy sensation.
4. I feel week in the arms and legs immediately after eating. Im on the couch for days.
5. Im told to start eating better.
6. I go on a chicken and potato diet that I put together on my own.
7. I soon start to feel better
8. Then the Cycle starts all over again.
This horrible process started for me at a young age but progressively got worse
Has anyone experienced similar
Just try to control on your anxiety things will be better with time.
I've been tested as well, with Alcat blood testing and know my sensitivities but it is those very foods we crave because when we eat them our bodies release adrenaline to go fight the sensitivities and endorphins follow adrenaline around like puppies on boys.
I am wondering if the reason you have such good luck with your chicken and potatoes is more because you are avoiding some trigger(s), something like eggs, dairy, gluten, grains, etc.
If you are fine on potatoes then most likely it's not a nightshade issue but if pizza, etc trigger you then gluten seems likely.
Perhaps you might consider doing an elimination diet like your chicken and potatoes and when you are feeling better, try one and only one additional food at a time, eat it every day for a week if needed to see how you feel. Write it down, you may not remember later otherwise what is ok and what is not.
This whole thing is such a process.
Obviously you won't get enough nutrition from chicken and potatoes to be healthy for long. You'll get anemic and need b vitamins, etc. So it would be best to find your culprits and just eliminate those...
This can take some time.
I did my work on this over a period of 2 yrs (I have had chronic gastritis for over 3 yrs now). but now I have a good understanding of what I can eat and cannot. It's not fun but I can eat more than the rice and canned chicken I used to eat.
Wishing you well.
I can relate a lot to not wanting to go out, or just feeling too unwell to do things, and how I see the sadness and resentment in my gf that im just staying in feeling unwell again.
Eating carefully is hard when u start to feel better, but i think is really the key to beating this long term. Even when we feel better our stomach may not be healed. Remember that an inflamed stomach doesnt cause symptoms in most people, so even if you feel good you may need to eat carefully for a long time until the inflammation has settled.