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.

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I've heard you talk about attacks..

littlemart
littlemart
.... or flares but I really don't know what you mean. I have daily pain, nausea, inability to eat etc.

Do attacks usually come after you've had some healing or can they occur any time? Today I woke up feeling awful. Kind of constipated. Probably just my usual IBS thing. But I can't eat today. It kind of hurts when food is being swallowed. So I am still working on some eggs... very slowly. I got some down, but have to take it in short spurts. Just feeling weak and have that pain between the shoulders. Lots of yucky stuff.

Tell me about your "attacks". Are they going to happen forever? Even with mild gastritis? Even if it clears up?

I imagine that what's going on now is still the initial sickness that hasn't been healed yet.

Thanks again guys.
herrlehmann
herrlehmann
I'm sorry that you're feeling so bad every day. This is not normal, usually you have better days with Gastritis when you're on a strict diet.

I don't know how the Health System in your Country is, but did you already think about going into a hospital for a few days/weeks to check absolutely everything or doing a rehab?
JenayS
JenayS
The attacks that I had were extremely painful. I do not know which foods would cause it because at that time I did not know I had severe stomach inflammation. Basically the pain would hit me like someone repeatedly stabbing my gut over and over again. I would be curled up in a ball on my bed crying, thinking I was dying. The only thing that subsided the pain was diazepam, which is Valium but a very low dose, either 2mg or 5mg. Since I started this new diet I have not felt that bad. The first three days of the diet I would drink two cups of cabbage juice and after a few days I started to feel awful again, but I was "detoxing" and I did have nausea and the lot but not as severe. My pains seem to originate behind my belly button/naval and not exactly in my stomach. So I do not know what that means. I have been in and out of doctors for 4 years complaining of pain behind my naval and nothing done. Antibiotics was prescribed twice, made me feel worse then a bit better then worse, PPIs were prescribed at the time as well. Then back in July I had my second endoscope and my results were an extremely bad inflamed stomach. But why the pain behind my naval? I still have yet to figure that out. And ever since the endoscope my actual stomach hurts, especially when I lay down, whereas before laying down made me feel better, not it makes everything worse. No clue why.
littlemart
littlemart
herrlehmann i don't have a lot of acid reflux and i suspect that is why my doctor has not put me on any diet. i tried a month of protonix and carafate. am still taking carafate ( when I can get it into my eating schedule ). in the usa we can't just check ourselves into a hospital. have to go through the emergency room where they evaluate and decide if they should admit or your regular doctor can decide after an office visit. I do have SOME better days. Thanks.
herrlehmann
herrlehmann
Don't believe Doctors with Diet, they have usually no clue about it!

Try white rice, oatmel, potatoes, sweet potatoes, steamed vegetables for some time and you should feel better. To drink absolutely no Coffee and Alcohol, just Tea or Water. I'm also looking into Ayurvedia and Chinese Medicine, maybe you can find a specialist of that near you.