Hello everyone. This is my first time posting here even though I have been reading these forums for the last few months. I, too have severe stomach inflammation wish causes, like all of you, distress, discomfort, uncomfortable to eat, scared of foods, etc. lol. Such is life!

I have quite a strict diet since the first week of August. I will run down my daily menu, and it is pretty much the same dail, then I will continue to my question. Not much we can eat, sadly.

Breakfast: plain oatmeal with one banana, sprinkle of salt
Snack: one slice of non gluten chia bread with a tiny amount of butter or a plain cracker (low salt, low fat content) with bean spead.
Lunch: mix of veggies, all boiled until very soft, carrots, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, sweet potatoes, potatoes, chicken or sometimes Turkey. Sometimes celery as well, but very hard to get celery to be soft enough so it doesn't hurt my stomach.
Snack: Usually another cracker with bean spread
Dinner: same as lunch
Snack: Either more dinner or cracker or a slice of gluten free white bread with very little butter and some melon.

I started taking gastromend a week ago and have attempted to wean myself off of Lansoprazole which I did completely wrong and suffered badly so today I went back on it, removing a few beads before swallowing. When I stopped lansoprazole which was only a week ago I replaced it with zantac and I felt ok, some acid reflux when, I lied down, but then 2-3 days ago I started getting worse so I said you stopped way too fast, lol. Such is luck. I have just received Pepzin GI but am not sure if I should take both that and Gastromend everyday, but not at same time. I take gastromend upon waking up and right before bed. So maybe I can take Pepzin between breakfast and lunch then lunch and dinner? Would like to know if anyone does that. I am not sure if gastromend is working, tbh, because I messed up by taking myself off the PPIs to quickly.

Anyways, phew long intro, lol sorry, to my questions. My husband made me dinner on Saturday which consisted of a veggie casserole. Included carrots, parsnips, fennel, mushrooms, cabbage, chicken. With a side dish of boiled potatoes. He added parsley and arrowroot. Yesterday and today, especially yesterday, I felt incredibly nauseous. Now the list of food and herbs/spices I use daily EXCEPT for fennel, mushrooms and parsnips. So I am wondering if any three of these vegetables have cause anyone stomach distress? Fennel is something I have eaten maybe twice this year as it is extremely hard to get where I live. Mushrooms I use to eat a lot more than I do now and can not remember if it made me sick, tbh, I was eating them with onions etc. Parsnips, I have eaten lately mashed with carrots, yum, but I get that heavy feeling after, not sickly just heaviness. I would appreciate any feedback regarding these vegetables and the questions I have above about gastromend and Pepzin.

Btw, as far as the bean spread what I do is buy a bag of dried beans called "bean salad mix," which contains chick peas, mung beans, pinto beans, black eye beans, yellow split peas, green split peas, black turtle beans, flageolet beans and I put about a handful of two in water let them sit 24 hours, boil them, remove foam, then pure them into a paste with extra virgin olive oil (maybe 4-5 teaspoons) and a pinch of salt. But I have been eating this for past 2-3 weeks with no complications.

Thank you for your time. I hope everyone is getting better as each day passes.

Take care,

Jenay