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.

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PPI's but can't eat

littlemart
littlemart
I think I know the answer to this but I'm pretty much unclear on all this.

If you're taking Protonix ( or others ) but can't eat doesn't that kind of contradict the whole point of taking the PPI? I mean, doesn't that make things worse instead of better?

I wake up so many mornings and just can't eat, feel dizzy and weak. I try to wait until after I've got something in my stomach to take the Protonix, but some days I just can't get enough down. Just don't have an appetite and feel kind of nauseaus.

So, someone please help straighten me out on this point. I'm still taking the combination of Protonix and Carafate for one month per my doctor. Kind of an experiment. My gastritis is mild.
rosebrook
rosebrook
Do you have access to a Naturopath doctor, when I started going to one and she put me on a digestive enzymes, some herbs for gastritis, that when I started feeling better. She gave me a lot menu ideas. I am gluten and dairy free, but I can eat cheese, cottage cheese and yogurt in the dairy family. I have my 3 main meals and nutritious snacks in between, like rice cakes with plain avocado, and yogurt. I have been able to add fruit to my diet but very slowly. I only drink spring water and coconut water. I also go to acupuncture twice a week, and I get my probiotics from her. She has helped me so much. My GI and PCP drs didn't help me except prescribe PPI, I not only have gastritis, have Gastroparesis, that I take meds for.
Stay away from processed and greasy foods they are the worst.
I also take a product called Juice Plus, if you. Google you'll see what it is.i hope this helps you, I've been dealing with this since April, so it's a long journey, and staying busy helps too.