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've had gastritis for 10 weeks now. I was diagnosed with h pylori about 6 weeks from now, and finished the 10 day treatment (amoxicilin, clarithromycin, omeprazole) almost a month ago. I had a biopsy three weeks ago that confirmed the bacteria was gone. I'm currently taking 20mg omeprazole every morning before breakfast.
As much as I'm very slowly being able to eat more, I still have to take anti acids every single night. I'm eating at 8/8:30 and if I don't take them (I tried this last night), I wake up at 2/2:30 with some slight chills and stomach discomfort and it then takes me hours to get back to sleep, even after I take the anti acids when the pain starts at that point. Is this a common thing? I'm being able to eat more but I still keep waking up if I don't take anything, which makes me think that I'm not really progressing. I've had this same night issues every day since I got this so it's starting to get boring. At least with anti acids I'm not waking up but I don't think it's healthy to keep taking them every day.
By the way, I've been eating chicken and rice every day for weeks now, so it's not like I'm being adventurous on my meals either. I'm going to bed at around 11:30, so as to not lay down right after. Also note that when I go to bed, I'm feeling fine. I only take the anti acids because I know I'll end up waking up otherwise.
Is this something that everyone goes through?
Does eating when you wake up in that state help?
I now bought slippery elm and I'm giving that a try... I hope this makes a difference.
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I have gastritis but no h pylori. However I have had frequent problems with going to bed feeling ok and then I wake up usually between 2-4am with terrible nausea, gas, & stomach pain. I usually feel like I am going to vomit but never do. It usually takes me at least 2 hours to get back to sleep. Usually sipping some ginger ale and laying propped up helps me in the moment.
When I was on ranitidine 2x a day I didn't have this issue. However I got some negative side effects and the GI dr put me on protonix 4 weeks ago. My night issues have come back so she just yesterday switched my dose to before dinner instead of before breakfast to see if I get some relief. I've also heard some people take a ppi in the am and an h2 blocker in the in the PM. Talk to your doctor- maybe one of those options would work for you. I'm not sure if it's working for me yet or not. Time will tell
Are you doing one or two doses? Are you taking them am or pm? Moving my dose to PM did help me a little- I still got nauseous in the middle of the night but not as bad. Unfortunately the PM dose caused my daytime aching to return which has been gone for about a week. My doctor told me that I could double up- do protonix am & pm- or do protonix am and zantac pm. I'm going to try zantac pm first. Zantac has helped me in the past, but does give me some side effects. If it doesn't work, she said she sometimes has people do protonix am & pm Plus zantac at bedtime. I'd rather not do that but will if I have to. I have been dealing with this for 6 months and I need it to be over.
Hope the protonix works for you. If you feel like it- let me know how it goes for you!
I am actually taking some probiotics but I don't see much difference. On the other hand, I'm taking slippery elm and DGL and I think that's helping me. I also started taking a zinc carnosine suplement last night, but that should take some time before I can see any effects.
Last night I took half the amount of antiacids and I woke up around 4 with what really felt like hunger. I wonder if eating early and not so much ends up making me hungry in the middle of the night, which ends up giving me some slight pain. I'm going to try eating something light like a small banana about half an hour before bed and see how it goes.
I'm basically trying everything I can, I'm fed up with this situation and I need to get better. If I do find some combination of things that makes me feel better, I'll update here. Dealing with this myself has been awful and if I'd love it if I could provide some advice that could help someone else.
I woke up a few times along the night but *none of them* with pain. When I reached my usual wake up time, I could start feeling that hunger/slight pain so I'm actually thinking my problem might have been mostly hunger. I'll keep this schedule for a few days but it seems promising.