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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Reflux

luckymamaof3
luckymamaof3
i know that acid reflux and gastritis are two different things but i was wondering how many of you get both. Five months ago when my gastritis started i didn't get the reflux problem until about two weeks into having my gastritis. Now I'm off my PPi and I'm just taking Pepzin GI and Pepcid, but i still feel like I have symptoms of silent reflux. throat clearing and food having a hard time making its way down. my stomach feels so much better, i feel like i have that under control. I just want to get my reflux under control, because I'm worried about doing damage to my esophagus.
Nina1959
Nina1959
I've had reflux for over 25 yrs and got gastritis about 3 yrs ago.
I also have a sliding hiatal hernia, which feels like silent reflux.
I am off ppi meds. I was on them for nearly 19 yrs and when the study came out about the bone health issues I stopped.
I find a couple things help the most for reflux -
1, eating many times daily but only small meals, about 2 cups of food max
2, taking 500 mg of magnesium twice a day and drinking marshmallow root tea in the evening and through the night if thirsty.
littlemart
littlemart
I was totally confused about the two problems for a long time. I do have both things going on, but still don't totally understand it. I also have IBS which carries some of the same symptoms or creates some of the same symptoms. It took a lot of patient people on this site explaining to me what gastritis is and what reflux is before I figured out the difference. I just assumed that gastritis included reflux. But now I know that some people have GERD but don't have gastritis. Two different things.
luckymamaof3
luckymamaof3
I guess we are the lucky ones who get both :-/ I'm dealing with a lot of stress lately so my reflux has been pretty bad. I seem to be getting food stuck or it's just taking a hard time getting down. Does this happen to any of you?
joham
joham
When my gerd esophagitis gets real bad my throat swells up and I have difficulty swallowing.Its scary.I need to calm myself down especially when I eat so I don't panic because that obviously makes it worse.Counscious diaphragm breathing helps me quite a bit and I try to move around for 30 mins following a meal instead of sitting.
mobeen42
mobeen42
when this nausea type feeling will be ended in Gastritis.
Lesleygm
Lesleygm
Keep working on the diet. Reflux is actually easier to eliminate than gastritis is. Stress is bad for reflux. That may be your cause but the source is often diet based.

Trouble swallowing means the esophagus is pretty inflamed. You may be refluxing overnight while you are sleeping too. You may need to prop up at night.

Dont allow the trouble swallowing issue to go on for too long. Take a Zantac if that continues. You are right, chronic inflammation is a concern.