What's on your own 'YES' list at the moment?

There's been countless posts on this forum to show how impossible it is to compile a definitive 'one size fits all' list! Every person handles different foods at different stages of gastritis.

Foods that should be safe for many include non-acidic, bland foods like rice, potatoes, bananas & oatmeal. Also check out the "Dropping Acid" book by Jamie Koufman.

I could just kick myself. I wrote a long reply, detailing everything I eat and then I hit the close button and poof.. all gone.

I eat just about anything. I lost a lot of weight so I was on a mission to gain. So I was and am eating anything I felt like eating. Sweets, ice cream, meat, bread.... everything. My husband is the soup nazi and he made a veggie soup with tomatoes and beef broth and cabbage. It is so good! So I am eating it and hoping I will not feel the pain later tonight.

I drink a half cup of coffee some days... no problems. At least not immediate problems. Sometimes I get the gassy pain later in the day but I'm not sure what starts it.

At first my doctor told me I did not have to change my diet at all. Now he tells me to limit acidic food. Makes more sense to me. But he has not ordered me to stop anything all together.

I've never been on a diet in my life and I kind of doubt some of the "fad" diets I hear about. I'm sure they help some people with pain relief.

I also have IBS so constipation is a problem. Some of the good foods that I should NOT eat now would help with that, but could cause other problems with gastritis. So I have pain daily above and below the belt. Have to pick my battles. Having MS also causes constipation for me. No strength to push and no urge to go at times. Complicated.

I do realize this is not "one size fits all". In fact, the more I read and talk with other patients I realize we are all on our own. Experiment and do the best you can. Just don't want to do the wrong thing and get worse. Right now I have mild chronic gastritis with a weak LES. So I get a lot of burning pain in my throat and inside my mouth. This could also be a result of Sjogrens. Another autoimmune thing.

One doctor tells me this can't be GERD and the other one says... it is and don't eat anything acidic. The other one tells me to use Biotene to replace moisture in my mouth. Yikes. I'm so sick of being on the medical merry go round. Miss the days when we had one doctor who covered everything.

Thanks so much.

Are you sure to take sweets, tomatoes and coffee?
It's usually the 3 worse things you can with Gastritis.

I'm sorry you're in such a complex health situation with so many meds & conditions that may or may not be contributing to gastritis. Like you I have IBS-C & gastritis... & it is really tricky to keep both 'happy' at the same time.

I'm skeptical about fad diets too - if we followed the rules of all of them then we couldn't eat anything whatsoever! If you're not already doing so, it's really worthwhile keeping a food & symptom journal to try & identify patterns. A bland diet helps me tremendously - mainly based around white Jasmine rice, oatmeal, potatoes, chicken, carrots, spinach. I do stray from these, but these are my core, safe foods for both my gastritis & IBS-C. Hot prune juice helps when the IBS-C is particularly bad - I mix mine with oatmeal to minimise it upsetting the gastritis.

I just can't get my head round drinking coffee with gastritis. Even if it doesn't burn immediately - it raises gastrin levels in the blood & increases stomach acid production. It's a real irritant to the digestive tract. But maybe I can accept it & avoid it because I was never a big coffee fan. It must be hard for coffee lovers.

I wonder if coffee is bad for everyone? It kind of sounds like it, but I've read some glowing reports lately about it being good for diabetics. All I know is I can't live on pills or roots and herbs. Some of those can be dangerous for some people too. Just have to know what you're doing with all of this stuff.

herrlehmann I'm really limiting my intake of the acidic things like tomatoes and coffee. I wouldn't have eaten the soup my husband made except it hurts his feelings if I push it away after he put his heart into making it. He thinks he's helping me by cooking but doesn't realize some ingredients are not good for me. I just don't have the heart to tell him. He wouldn't remember anyway. He has his own problems.

I do keep a short diary of foods and symptoms. And I happen to love warm prune juice! I just keep forgetting to get some at the store. I leaned that trick in the hospital years ago. I have never liked oatmeal, but I can handle cream of wheat or something like that. I just don't make it for myself. I don't cook much because of my fatigue and MS issues. So I guess it would be ok for me to keep to the bland diet and let Sam make his own meals. By the way.... I have gained back a couple pounds. Hurray!!!