Hi poorlygirl41
im sorry u got to suffer so much with this . Maybe u should leave the pop and the juice alone, and just drink water and maybe some camomille tea for a while. I still dont touch any juice or anything else i stick with water and tea , somedays i drink some warm milk with some honey in it.... I did find that Sucralfate helps good with the gastritis pain and i think it helps with the acid too, i took one before i went to bed to help with the acid but Gaviscon didnt really do anything for me it only helped for about 30 min and the pain came back . I hope u be better soon ...

Both pop and juice may be at least a part of the issue. The other part could also be medication related (not having the right mix of treatment can at times be just as bad as having the wrong one all-together) or stress. Call the GI Monday and in the meantime, check your diet and go as basic and bland as you can. Stick to safe foods and drinks and avoid anything that is overly fatty, sweet, spicy or carbonated. Hang in there. It looks pretty bad right now I am sure, but tomorrow is a whole new day - and hopefully a little less painful of one too.

You're drinking Soda??? Forgive me, but that's an "Are you MAD????" moment. The Carbonation is like...the WORST pain you can invite into your system...Soda is straight up sugar, syrup, probably has tons of acid in it, and I'll bet the carbonation is EXTREAMLY damaging too. During thanksgiving, I drank just a teeny glass of apple cider, and I was in agony 15 minutes later. You absolutely MUST stop consuming things like that...

Thanks guys I think you may have some answers here. I will have to try to fit Sucralfate in and sort my diet out. I will get in touch with the gastro as soon as possible. No pop that will be hard but I should leave it alone. Its not been easy this as when I first started with gastritis I could eat and drink a lot more. These flare ups are worse so I will have to adapt to it. I know I have no choice but Ive no willpower. Ive not tried chamomile yet I will have to give it a go. I used to have it and it tasted quite awful. Ineed to find something that will work. Do you drink Horlicks? I always have it before bed as Im scared to drink hot chocolate.

Ive eaten coconut pieces too. Do any of you have any type of salad? I struggle to eat it at all and certainly don,t have tomatoes.

No tomatoes for me but I can eat a salad with romaine lettuce , some shredded carrot and a couple olives . I wasn't using any dressing but can now dip into a low fat blue cheese dressing . No vinegar at all , no cucumbers , no onions .

Oh I also wanted to add that I was never a big soda drinker but would usually have one with dinner . Now I only drink plain water or coconut water with meals . I drink lots of plain water during the day . Maybe you can try to substitute soda with coconut water . I really like it and find it very soothing to the stomach .

Thanks pro211 I will have to get some coconut water and try it. Today I bought some soya milk with vanilla from the health shop. Soya is suposed to be anti-inflammatory. Ive not tried it yet.

Tomatoes are highly acidic. It is one of those sneaky foods you would never guess could cause pain, but oh boy they can! As for soya, is it the same as Soy in the US? If so, you can give it a try but go easy on it. Soy comes from beans, so it can cause some excessive gas and be a bit difficult on the digestive system. Overall though, mostly you have to read the labels- most of these types of products have a lot of additives. If they are different, please disregard the entire paragraph above and just know I am wishing you good health and happy healing.

I can eat a little lettuce, but it took me a few months of healing, first. If I go to a Subway, for example, I just get Italian bread, a little lettuce, a little spinach (I take my sub home and microwave the spinach first), and a few black olives, then a little mayonnaise. And I can have a little cheese and turkey breast.
However, it took a few months of healing, as I said. For a while, I would not have dreamed of eating this, and would have stuck with my very bland diet.

Hi Poolrygirl4,

Have you been diagnosed what the cause is for your gastritis?

Gastritis is inflamation of the stomach, bacteria is usually the cause but there are other conditions such as bile reflux, damage from use of strong pain killers, etc.. The outcome is the same in all cases, damage to the mucosal lining of the stomach.

To help with this you need to heal the stomach. The stomach is wildly inflammed so you need to first bring the inflammation down and reduce acid damage to give the stomach a chance to heal. This involes eating more alkalizing, anti inflamatory foods e.g, salmon with steamed vegetables. Find a few foods that dont give you any symtoms, for me it's salad, avacardo, poached eggs, the above and potatoes with tuna mayanaise etc. Grains make my symtoms worse, so wheat, pasta, white rice is off the menu for me. While your stomach is inflamed it would be wise to avoid dairy products which will make you produce more acid. Rice milk is a good alternative.

In the morning lemon juice in hot water, with a slice of ginger and very small pinch of cayenne pepper does a great job of settling the stomach.

Slippery elm drink is amazing when you're having a flare up!

DGL Chewable tablets are great when you're out and about, you can aso get chewable slippery elm tablets to be used in combination for a great effect.

Tumeric tablets which is an amazing anti inflamatory. Use in cooking.

Fennel tea is very soothing for an inflamed stomach.

Juicing is amazing, particularly carrot juice and cellery with cabbage.

Kevin

I agree one-hundred percent with the idea of juicing. Somewhere on here is a recipe that my mother used when she had ulcers, that also works well for gastritis. The breakdown is pretty much carrot juice, chicken broth (all natural) and a little flour to thicken it. It helps coat the stomach very well and still manages to be quite tasty.

I agree wholeheartedly with JackieXVII - are you crazy? I would say you're crazy to eat fresh produce as well as it's every difficult for your stomach to digest. Horlicks? I don't think that's a good idea either. My iridologist also said to cut out caffein free herbal tea as that is also acidic. You need to go soft and simple with food (root veg and chicken or fish).I know that it's really hard to give up all the nice goodies.... but you are NEVER, repeat NEVER going to heal if you keep your stomach lining irritated. It takes serious will power to cut out all that stuff- I know, I've walked in your shoes. I've just now started branching out after 9 months of eating 5 small and seriously boring meals a day consisting of root veg, avocado, and yup you guessed it, protein. It's a hell of a thing and I was in tears a lot as I thought I was not going to cope longterm, but you know what, once your condition improves so does your outlook. YOU CAN DO IT!

Thaqnks all I will take some of those ideas on board. You know why its hard for me because Ive had stomach problems for two and a half years. It started with an ulcer. I could eat hardly anything then and I had to live on liquid food or liquidise my dinner. I got so frustrated that I couldn,t have icecream, cake, orange juice, alcohol and a lot of other things. When that got better I ate more normal for a couple of weeks but then I had to have my gallbladder out. The gastritis came after that. I was forcing myself to eat through the pain of the ulcer when recovering from that. Also when I was in hospital they give you anything there is no special diet there. I was trying to eat bread sticks that my husband brought me as I was so hungry. The hospital just throw two or three options at you on the menu and if you can,t eat then you do without. It was awful. Then of course I was sick a lot so sometimes it was water and a drip for me if I was dehydrated. I had to teach myself to eat again and then I got this awful gastritis. I would say that gastritis seems more painful than the ulcer,that just hurt on swallowing food but gastritis just burns away all the time.