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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Sick of this!! 3 years and still sick

nopointtolifeanymore
nopointtolifeanymore

I've had gastritis for over three years now. 


Yesterday I was working around the yard, (for only an hour) and my stomach, just under my ribcage was all knotted up and sore, like a muscle that's been worked out. Now this morning I crapped my guts out, all diarrhea. It seems like i have a lot of issues in my lower gut. right around and below my bellow button area. it feels really good to massage this area and i can often hear liquid sloshing around. 


I have gotten medical marijuana from my doctor for it now and the difference was utterly amazing. BUT I also suffer from anxiety disorder and so the weed makes me all paranoid and anxious. which is not cool. sometimes it makes me very mellow and happy, but it's not worth it in the end because after a week of smoking i get all panicky. 


THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING. I was good for a while, i felt much better and could see progress happening. I stuck to a good diet, and etc. But then I started using pot and it was working so well that i came off of my ppi, which was a bad bad mistake. now i am fucked as all hell and have taken so many steps back. I am back on the nexium, waiting for it to properly take hold.


fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. nothign would be greater than to walk down the street and get shot in the fucking head.

whitleyc
whitleyc
I literally feel your pain. I am constantly saying I am ready to jump off a fucking bridge. I can't seem to heal either, or come off the PPI or carafate. I am sick of not being able to eat and live my life. I am nauseous 24-7 and have a constant hard-type pain under my ribcage in the center. I also have anxiety to I'm living on kolotopin (which I hate doing) because the gastritis symptoms give me anxiety symptoms. I'm a mess, lol. I wish I had something to help you, and me, but at least you know you're not alone and my life is also miserable ;)
johngreen
johngreen
Have you tried medical marijuana? I have been using this for a while to treat my gastritis, unfortunately for me It conflicts with a mental illness I have, but for my stomach it does wonders. I have put on weight (mostly muscle) because i have been able to workout. And it works so well that I actually forget all about my stomach sometimes and agitate it on accident by overworking it! Right now I'm using charlotte's web, which is a super low THC strain that doesn't have any psycho-active effects (i.e. it won't get you high) and it is super! Charlotte's web was a strain of marijuana bred for a little girl name charlotte, it is great stuff!

here is a video on charotte's web:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxrKyjeClTk
johngreen
johngreen
you will have to copy and paste that link.
terri002
terri002
i know how you feel. i was diagnosed with gastritis by endoscopy in Jan 2014 after suffering with nausea and weight loss for the previous 7 months. Prescribed omeprazole but this had little effect. Then prescribed ranitidine and this seemed to do the trick and by the Spring of 2014 i began to feel like my normal self even starting to put weight back on. By Christmas 2014 the symptoms reappeared e,g, losing weight and not eating normally but again by Spring of 2015 i felt "normal" again.

Then again in November 2015 after a trip to the gym where they took my blood pressure i was told that it was very high and i should see my doctor. Went to doctors blood pressure taken but was found to be normal. Had a complete "MOT" and was told that perhaps my blood sugar levels were a little high. Had more blood tests taken and these came back clear. All my usual symptoms of gastritis came back but with the added symptoms of lower abdomen pressure. Dr sent me for ultrasound and more blood tests and all came back normal. By the April of 2015 i was back to normal again and the doctor put my symptoms down to a stressful period i was going through being that it would have been my eldest son's birthday in December and the anniversary of his death in March.

Now in November 2016 i was told by my employer that i would be transferring to another office. i wasn't completely happy about this as it would entail a 48 mile round trip every day whereas i was only travelling 16 miles beforehand. Then i started getting the lower abdominal pressure again and with loose stools . As you can imagine it was coming up to Christmas again. i saw my GP yesterday and told him about my job situation and the lower abdominal pressure starting again. After examination he said that it sounded to him that i had IBS with the added anxiety of my travelling further to work (i hate the travel). i have started to get the nausea again and am not eating particularly well so therefore the weight loss is happening again. Back on the ranitidine

Seems like i suffer at a certain time each year. i do suffer from anxiety and beginning to think that it is all in my head.