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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Is gastritis continuously painful ?

Jayrod
Jayrod

Hello 


I'm new here and I was just wondering if gastritis is a constant pain? 


Im 25 and my doctor said that eating so much spicy food and stress may have caused my gastritis


it has been almost a month now with this pain 


for the first two weeks I thought I just had a stomach bug so I didn't think of going to the doctors 


finally after 17 days I went and was prescribed ranitidine 


the first day of taking it it made a big differemce


although the pain was still their 


it was now very mild


umfortunately me being super hard headed I went and had a huge plate of Panda Express which screwed me up the next few days 


I am now on my seventh day of ranitidine and my second day of diet change 


since I have been changing my diet and taking ranitidine 


my pain has decreased. However it still is their 


I just wanted to know if this is normal 


for some reason I thought it maybe just go away in a couple of days and It lasting so long kinda freaks me out!


also got tests done for hpylori and I'm scheduled for an ultrasound ):


this totally sucks!


lighttheway
lighttheway
It can take a long time.avoid coffee,,foods that irritate..no chocolate.....Eat as bland ss possible and drink water.It will eventually go away.
supabelly
supabelly
Yeah mine took 5 months for the pain to go away and a few more for all discomfort to subside.
Farhadjo
Farhadjo
If you follow a strict diet and eliminate all the irritants, the pain and other symptoms will go away after a month or two (at least for me) but you should not think then that it is healed and start eating whatever you like. Full healing might take even a year, it depends. @supabelly: can you have a normal diet now?
supabelly
supabelly
Hi, yeah now my diet is almost back to normal in general. Still no coffee, oj,red sauce. Sometimes food triggers symptoms but not every time. Stomach is so tricky now....never now what's gonna throw it out of whack...it seems tho that the recovery time is a lot better.
GwenY
GwenY
I have been much better for weeks and weeks (apart from Red Sauce - blimey what does that do!!!! I can eat tomatoes with no problem but the sauce is grim.)
Farhadjo
Farhadjo
How long for you two now? after nearly 5 months still vegetables irritate me even when thoroughly cooked (I had a bad rebound after a bad food 3 weeks ago). And my diet is far away from normal now. Though I can eat in good amounts and symptoms are nearly all gone for the most part.
soretum
soretum
I was in constant pain for many months. Sticking strictly to my diet and taking my supplements helped me to heal but it took years to gain my life back.
superbella
superbella
Yes, I thought I was better, then I tried to eat normally and I got hit by the symptoms again.
Johno87
Johno87
Sounds a lot like what happened to me. I did the triple therapy for h pylori and then did pantaprazole for about a week after. Was starting to feel normal again so I went and had a big Japanese meal with chicken teriyaki and a few rolls. Instant pain after and over a month and a half later im still trying to recover.
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