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.
I am getting very bad persistent pain now which is most of the time. I do get a lot of anxiety and also reflux. I had a reflux of yellow bile recently and Im scared that it is bile reflux causing all my gastritis. When I see the doctors they have more or less given up and just tell me to take codeine. Ive got to the stage where I have to force myself to eat as it hurts so much. Ive been taking Sucralfate which I have had little success with. Im waiting to see the gastro again but they are not in any hurry and I don't, see him again until July 3. Im trying to eat bland but don,t know what to do now. Nothing is working. All I can do is to try the herbal things so Im going to get some things. I recently tried Silicol gel which Ive not been able to take much of because its expensive and only a small bottle. I will have to get some Slippery elm powder as the capsules I get don,t work.
Have you been checked for food intolerances? I flare with the slightest whisper of any grain (not just the gluten grains) but white rice and even that hurts sometimes.
Taking probiotics, enzymes? Eating yogurts?
All of these were the first line of defense for me.
I still do all of the above 2 yrs in every day, but when I'm flaring (like now), I add warm or cold (not hot) flaxseed tea, marshmallow root tea (sometimes mixed together), mashed beets (very soothing).... I agree a naturopath is your next best stop!