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.
.... along comes life moments that bring stress and worry and anxiety.
I haven't been here much lately. Two Sundays ago I was in the E/R with strangulated intestines. Any surgery brings adhesions and they can cause the intestines to twist. By the time I left things were relaxed again. But 3 days later my husband had a gall bladder attack with Pancreatitis. He has cirrhosis, diabetes and heart problems. So his doctor has refused to take his gall bladder out in the past. But this time they found that it was totally non functional and he was having too many attacks. So the surgeon agreed to try a laparoscopy which went badly from the first cut. He started to bleed (which is the reason they did not want to do it in the first place). So he had an open surgery. He has non alcoholic cirrhosis which has made him a bleeder. He did ok through the surgery but has had a tough 2 weeks so far. And you can imagine the stress and extra work I've had.
With my MS and this Gastritis it has been hard. My stomach was doing so much better but now I am back to the constant burning etc. I have no idea how to control the stress. We have a long way to go with Sam.
We have a crew working on our old farmhouse, trying to fix the basement so we can sell it. More stress. It gets worse every time we talk to the contractor. This has been a terrible thing for both of us.
Anyway, I check in here when I can and I really need you all now. I am having a hard time keeping up with my meds since I am trying to keep Sam on schedule. I write it all down, but my lists are getting mixed up a little. Still taking the Zantac twice a day and trying to remember to take the Pepzin and my iron etc. I'm always afraid to take my nighttime meds since they put me to sleep. I want to be alert if Sam needs me. He is pretty much independent now but still needs some help.
I just need to be reminded what to take for these awful burning runs of pain. I just bought a new bottle of Zantac and now I see they are MINT pills. Yikes. Afraid to take them. I have a few of the regular pills so I can make it until I get more. Sorry for being so long. I'm just out of my mind with all of this.
Thanks everyone.
I haven't been here much lately. Two Sundays ago I was in the E/R with strangulated intestines. Any surgery brings adhesions and they can cause the intestines to twist. By the time I left things were relaxed again. But 3 days later my husband had a gall bladder attack with Pancreatitis. He has cirrhosis, diabetes and heart problems. So his doctor has refused to take his gall bladder out in the past. But this time they found that it was totally non functional and he was having too many attacks. So the surgeon agreed to try a laparoscopy which went badly from the first cut. He started to bleed (which is the reason they did not want to do it in the first place). So he had an open surgery. He has non alcoholic cirrhosis which has made him a bleeder. He did ok through the surgery but has had a tough 2 weeks so far. And you can imagine the stress and extra work I've had.
With my MS and this Gastritis it has been hard. My stomach was doing so much better but now I am back to the constant burning etc. I have no idea how to control the stress. We have a long way to go with Sam.
We have a crew working on our old farmhouse, trying to fix the basement so we can sell it. More stress. It gets worse every time we talk to the contractor. This has been a terrible thing for both of us.
Anyway, I check in here when I can and I really need you all now. I am having a hard time keeping up with my meds since I am trying to keep Sam on schedule. I write it all down, but my lists are getting mixed up a little. Still taking the Zantac twice a day and trying to remember to take the Pepzin and my iron etc. I'm always afraid to take my nighttime meds since they put me to sleep. I want to be alert if Sam needs me. He is pretty much independent now but still needs some help.
I just need to be reminded what to take for these awful burning runs of pain. I just bought a new bottle of Zantac and now I see they are MINT pills. Yikes. Afraid to take them. I have a few of the regular pills so I can make it until I get more. Sorry for being so long. I'm just out of my mind with all of this.
Thanks everyone.
Just listen to what shihonage says everything he says it's true. Get yourself up, pray to God to be very strict and you will heal in a few months enough healing for your stomach to handle stress.
Try to find a diet that has all your vitamins is bland and keeps your stomach in the least amount of discomfort symptoms for a while, while also avoiding malnutrition and vitamins.
For example white rice , if you can handle fish get it fresh it has all the vitamins, oatmeal, potatoes,carrots, spinach, maybe a banana,thats probably it. Every 3 or 2:30 hours to keep the acid from eating your stomach away.
Use pepzin GI between meals and slippery elm to coat your stomach when needed. If one does things correctly everything bland,throughly cooked and chewed heck i dont think we even need antiacids , only one at night when the stomach is empty if that gives you pain.
Note: make sure everything is throughly and well cooked. Rice (white) for me was a problem but it is no longer a problem since I bought a very expensive japanese rice cooker, it cooks every grain well i digested like water even when I was in my worse state.
Srsly lighten up and get this disease out of your life. Its a lot of work and effort but its curable. I don't recommend miso soups, bars, pasta sauce all the nasty things i read here sometimes its saddening, these people will never heal if they keep eating like that when still having symptoms unless their gastritis isn't so bad.
I'm in a constant cycle of one problem causing something else. Now I am anemic and have to take iron. So the iron causes constipation which is something I've been fighting for years anyway.
Thanks for the advice. I do trust Shihonage. He must research this stuff all the time. I'm just finding it very hard to take care of myself while I'm trying to care for my husband.
My worst problems are my diet. I've never cared much for rice. I do eat it sometimes, but not much. And I'm not a fan of oatmeal. So I'll have to find a way to cook these to make them appeal to me. Any recipes anyone??