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'm new here. A bit of my background. Had ulcerative colitis when I was 15 and ended up having my colon removed (jpouch). Since then I have also developed sacroiliitis. Aside from the odd bout of pouchitis, my stomach has been doing pretty good...until 4 weeks ago.
It started as constant nausea. After talking with my GP a couple times, he prescribed a proton pump inhibitor for one week. This helped the nausea but I had burning after I ate. Then I also get disomfort and the nausea sometimes returns. Yesterday I had an endoscopy and he responded "good news...it's nothing serious. Just a bit of inflammation or what we call gatritis". He gave me meds for the nausea but nothing else...and told me nothing in terms of diet, meds, or what to do. I am waiting for biopsy results (not sure how long it takes) but he doesn't suspect an infection.
Today the pain is even worse. Is it normal not to be given any meds to try (prescription or over the counter)? He also didn't mention any dietary restrictions. I was taking celebrex daily for my sacroiliitis so he suspects that's the culprit but other than that, said nothing.
So what now? Shouldn't I be having some kind of treatment? Scared of living with stomach problems for the rest of my life.
It started as constant nausea. After talking with my GP a couple times, he prescribed a proton pump inhibitor for one week. This helped the nausea but I had burning after I ate. Then I also get disomfort and the nausea sometimes returns. Yesterday I had an endoscopy and he responded "good news...it's nothing serious. Just a bit of inflammation or what we call gatritis". He gave me meds for the nausea but nothing else...and told me nothing in terms of diet, meds, or what to do. I am waiting for biopsy results (not sure how long it takes) but he doesn't suspect an infection.
Today the pain is even worse. Is it normal not to be given any meds to try (prescription or over the counter)? He also didn't mention any dietary restrictions. I was taking celebrex daily for my sacroiliitis so he suspects that's the culprit but other than that, said nothing.
So what now? Shouldn't I be having some kind of treatment? Scared of living with stomach problems for the rest of my life.
Here's a link to the treatments page:
http://www.dailystrength.org/treatments/support-groups/Gastritis
I think they should have given you a medicine to help. Minimally, carafate will coat your stomach and give it time to heal. I use herbs to help mine- slippery elm.
But try the different OTC things too. There's many to choose from in the Tums aisle.
Anyways...another question. Although i have not been given any meds, I have been trying things like Zantac or Tagamet since I've been getting regular nausea after eating (even if just a couple small bites). These do help....so....doesn't this indicate that there is infact some kind of acid imbalance in my stomach? My doctor didn't prescribe PPI, but did say that he would if I wanted to try it (as we're going away for a few days and I want to be able to eat!). Any thoughts on a PPI? When these issues arose initally, my GP did give me Tecta and it helped with nausea (but then got other symptoms like burning and pain after eating...which could have just been part of it all)
What do you mean about staying away from peelings? You mean to take the peel off an apple, etc? I do have an apple everyday and this seems to be ok. I have been avoiding citris though.
What do you mean by "Jello" is good?
Zantac did seem to help a bit. Would this be better than tecta? I do have a prescription for it from my rheumatologist in case I decide to try taking celebrex again (i.e. my GI didn't prescribe it)