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.
Hi all,
I have read several of the posts on here and I'm pretty sure my gastritis is worse than my last GI said it was.
I ended up in the ER around this time last year with extreme pain, nausea, and heartburn which my dr. then found I had h. pylori. I went through a very aggressive course of antibiotics that was unpleasant to say the least. But I made sure to take my probiotics and eat right to not aggrivate my condition. After my treatment was finished I felt better for about two weeks, then I started having symptoms again, but this time replace the heartburn with bloating. My dr. tested me again and found that I was healthy otherwise, refered me to a GI, and put me on Priolesec for another two weeks until I could get into see the GI.
The GI noted that my anxiety was probably making my symptoms worse, but ordered an endoscopy (anoher month out), but suggested I started taking my mental health more seriously.
Edoscopy done in October and my outcome was "mild" gastritis and a benign polup (sp?). Dr. also said that the gastritis was so mild it shouldn't be causing symptoms. Funnily enough, the day after my endoscopy was the first time I felt completely "cured." My symptoms disappeared for 4 months, and life went back to normal except that I started to take my anxiety more seriously and started looking for a therapist.
Come Feb. my symptoms started coming back in full force (except for the heartburn). Though I thought that maybe I was catching that kiler flu that was going around so I tried to just let it pass. After two weeks of not feeling better it occured to me that I still had some anti-nausea meds from my last episode, I took some and it was immediate releif. I put myself on a course of two week priolesec and bland diet until I could get back in to see my dr. which unfortunately wasn't until the end of March (because of insurance changes).
Now I'm back to playing the waiting game to see a GI. It has been a litle over a week since I have seen my dr and she referred me and put me on pepcid twice a day.
My concerns are: A) The medicine helps a little, so I can function in small bursts, but I can't really pin down what foods aggrivate my condition (other than the big no no's). I can eat the same thing for dinner two nights in a row, and I will be fine the first night but the second I am in the fetal position.
B)If my endoscopy showed my gastritis as mild, why am I having such horrible symptoms?
C) Where did it go for those 4 months? Why did it come back?
D) No one seems to know what's wrong with me, what should I even be asking the doctors for at this point?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I have no direction here and googling all this is overwhelming because everything contradicts itself.
Thanks
In my case, I didn’t have any abdominal pain but I was having killer chills in my upper back at night that we will keep me up all night literally with zero sleep. Kept on going for 4 days and doctor visits were useless.
Spoke with my sister, who is a physician and she suggested me to follow a strict diet and exercise schedule and advised to stay away from any medicine aside from sleeping aids. Eat small portions at regular intervals and the last meal of the day should be at least 3 hours prior to going to bed. Exercise in mornings or evening daily but make sure it is at least 3 hours in advance before going to bed. And don’t sit on the couch after having a meal but go for a light walk.
Keep sipping water every few minutes to wash away acids in your GI track. And wow what a relief I had in just couple of days. And above all stay positive, I know it’s hard but meditation and realizing that some super power is behind all this universe helps a lot.
Hope it helps and wish you a full and speedy recovery.
Regards.