Oh no. It can be so much better than that. After four and half years of hard work and much healing I have my life back. I can eat most foods now. My diet has been far from bland for over three years. In the early stages we certainly have to be creative with our very limited choices. When I say I will manage this for life that means, for me, I read all ingredients, ask questions when needed and avoid known bad foods. New ingredients can still bite me but I can live with that given all the gains I've made.
If I do have a gastritis reaction it is over in a day. My IBS gives me more ongoing grief as rules don't apply always.
Sadly the term 'mild gastritis' doesn't begin to cover the horrors we go through.
It can be better so please stay as positive as you can. Believe me I know how hard that can be.

I have mild gastritis and gerd as well. I am having a few really bad days despite watching my diet and taking my medications. I was diagnosed at the end of September but have been having symptoms since the end of August. At this point I can't tell if it's the GERD or the Gastritis. I am having either burning or area of pain all day long. I know that stress is not helping this condition and the more discomfort and pain I have the more stressed I become and the worse I feel. my job is stressful as well. I just wish this nightmare would end.

I also can eat most foods... most of the time. Right now dealing with another flare-up due to peculiarities of Pepcid. My stomach's been desensitized to H2 blockers by Zantac, and Pepcid's having a weak effect, so mistiming certain foods before taking a pill can ruin things for a week or two.

I'm learning that a Snickers bar is less harmful to me than a small yogurt. The milk in Yogurt really seems to sink into stomach lining and provoke stomach acid forever.

It's a learning process, and I see the experience as a spiral. While I'm going through similar setbacks, I'm also distancing from the initial point and getting closer to recovery. The upward trend graph can have its dips but still generally go up.

If I could I would "like" your original post. And the answers. I thought I was doing a lot better on the Pepzin GI. And really, I was. But suddenly things went sour again. I believe it's all the stress of selling our place and moving. That is still going on. And then my husband was dx with skin cancer and faces surgery Friday. So, this stuff just keeps coming back over and over. And I don't think you'll find any 2 doctors who will agree on the course of treatment. I'd sure like to know what to do when that sudden burning and sick-feeling comes over me out of the blue. I've forgotten what to do. I am not on prescription meds.

With all your stress you need Xanax or Ativan it's a wonderful drug for aniexty. Talk to your dr before you get worst.

Rosebrook I assume you were replying to me. I do take Xanax and Klonapin for anxiety and sleep. I have several illnesses and have been on meds for awhile. The meds I am NOT taking are the prescriptions for the gastritis like PPI's or Carafate. Although, I am thinking of trying the Carafate again. Thanks.

I take back what I said, I think most of us will heal, hopefully me as well. I just think it takes time. From reading the stories on here, it seems like it takes 7-9 months for a chunk of cases and then about another 6 months before your stomach lining is 100%.

So hopefully I will be done with this before 30.

Littlemart, do you live outside US, sometimes when I eat something wrong, I use to take Gaviscon, but finding out it has aluminum in it, I found that Europe refuses to allow that product at there stores, so GlascoSmith, who manufactures Gavisocn doesn't put aluminum in there pills. So I ordered some thru Canada, it's better than Carafate for me, when I have a flare up.

Im getting flare ups all the time still and Im thinking I will never heal. Its agony and the gastro thinks it must be more than gastritis as it should not hurt me as much. It feels inflamed up to me and I have been diagnosed with bile gastritis. Im in England and they have got me some Sucralfate through the hospital from Finland. It explains why its not in England then because of the aluminium. I have some Gaviscon but dont, take both. Ive ordered more Slippery elm. I wish this would heal but it seems to have got worse not better.