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 have been doing a lot better with the gastritis and have not been having pain, just a sort of tender sensation where the esophagus meets the stomach and that gnawy hunger sensation that I got when I first got gastritis. It's not really hunger, but it just feels like your stomach will feel better if you put a little something in it. I thought I was getting better, but after overindulging in potato chips this week and having a stressful doctor appointment, I am not feeling so great. Has anyone here had your gastritis start to flare with just the gnawy feeling and not other pain?
My doctor scared me because he said I lost too much weight too fast, even though I explained to him that I lost weight because I didn't eat hardly anything for 6 weeks when I got gastritis and then I had anxiety on top of it, which wouldn't let me eat, and I am no longer losing weight,so I now I feel anxious and depressed, even though my good sense is telling me this doctor is overreacting. But, anyone with anxiety knows all it takes is a little and it can start snowballing. Now I can't eat hardly anything again!
My doctor scared me because he said I lost too much weight too fast, even though I explained to him that I lost weight because I didn't eat hardly anything for 6 weeks when I got gastritis and then I had anxiety on top of it, which wouldn't let me eat, and I am no longer losing weight,so I now I feel anxious and depressed, even though my good sense is telling me this doctor is overreacting. But, anyone with anxiety knows all it takes is a little and it can start snowballing. Now I can't eat hardly anything again!
Am sorry you have had to suffer after just having some potato chips. Not fair is it? I also don't have any pain. My symptoms are mostly nausea (sometime burning, but it's not painful...just a warmth). But when the nausea subsides, I feel hungry. So it seems either nausea or hunger. As for the weight loss, that seems common as you'll see on here if you read some of the posts. We have stomach issues, so we eat less and thus the weight loss. Hope it subsides for you and you start feeling better again.