I got gastritis back in 2010, so just over four and half years. I'm healing well and can now eat tomatoes, chilli, onion and garlic to name a few goodies.
There is always hope of better days.

Are you taking any meds? how about supplements? I know you've written your diet on the posts.
When were you able to eat more raw foods, one yr? I'm so afraid to add foods, because some days my stomach feels so good, I forget I have gastritis, that's when we become vonerable and think I can eat whatever I see,. I also been getting pains in my lower abdomen like a IBS. I take Iberogast it helps pass the gas.

Four years since diagnosis, but it's under control now. I take a 20mg of Prilosec daily.

four years, yikes!

rosebrook, i am on nexium 40mg. i take one in the morning and one at night. and i take a vitamin once a day.

this week i have added some cottage cheese and almonds to my diet. but only a very little, two table spoons of cottage cheese a day and maybe 6 almonds the entire day. i figured id start slow and see how that works out.

other than that i eat, crackers, eggs, bananas, and plain oatmeal. and that is it. i have also got some chicken breast, so maybe this week i will try that too and see how it works out for me.

John, how long have you been suffering?

Well I've dealt with this on and off since 1988 with long stretches of wellness. By long stretches, I mean years in between. Mine usually flares right as I am settling from a stressful event. Takes months then to burn out, but once it does I'm ok...until next time. Stress is a part of life, flaming gastric pain is the way it comes out in some of us.

You get use to it and life improves all the time. It took 12-18 months to safely eat raw again. I limit quantity as raw carrot is very hard to digest.
I take slippery elm, digestive enzymes, St. John's wort and Iberogast when needed.

rosebrook -

i have been dealing with this for 16 months now.

at first i just had these bouts of dizziness and cold sweats, weird episodes, where my heart would race and i would feel very panicky and it would feel like i was going to passout or something.

then i started to notice it happened when i ate in the evenings, for a while it kept happening and so when i ate and would start to feel like that i would throw up and then i would feel better.

im sure that made it worse. then it just kept getting worse and worse to the point where everytime i ate i felt so sick that i would just have to lay down for a while. i didnt know what it was and so of course i didnt change my diet, it kept getting wrose and worse, eventually i went to the doctor and they were just as useless as they always are.

now i have been feeling better and better slowly, since i started taking a ppi and i changed my diet. most of today was alright, i even went to town for a red thursday sale at 7am and usually i have to stay in bed that early or my stomach is very knotted up and sore. but today i was fine.

feeling a little sick and sligtly dizzy at times here this evening but mostly alright. am really hoping it keeps going good, i miss food! and being healthy!