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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Sesser 07/15/2013

For 5 yrs I have had mainly upper left squeezing/stabbing pains that come in flares. Alcohol sets it off. I have had mild elevated lipase but the highest it was -was double. I have had many many scans, and none show pancreas issues. Im trying to find other things that can cause this pain, and slightly increase lipase. Now I also have soft stools and sometimes loose stools.

Can you share you symptoms, especially how the pain feels?

Silkakc 07/16/2013

My Gastritis is only in my upper stomach. Well, I have two spots of it in upper tummy and 1 at the bottom of stomach but the bottom one never hurts! Mine is caused by Bile Reflux Disease and going by the Mayo clinic site, my symptoms are all normal for that disease. These things set it off and cause me pain:

Alcohol
Soda pop
Brewed coffee and teas
All pain relievers- over the counter and RX
Anyhting with vitamin C added to it
Magnesium in supplements
Peppermint
Chocolate
Doing sit ups/crunches
Pepper
Chlorinated water
When the Dr. presses on my upper abdomen

My pain is a gnawing ache. Drinking slippery elm tea or chewing Extra sugarless bubble gum takes my pain away temporarily until the flare-up calms down. I took PPI's and Carafate for 4 years straight but stopped them because they did nothing for my kind of gastritis. Coating my stomach works much better for me. Most days I have 0/10 pain level if I avoid all the things above. The only thing I cheat on is the coffee. I drink several cups a day of weak, instant, low-acid arabica coffee with 4 TBS of powder creamer in it to cut the acidity.

The only weird blood test result I have had was my liver enzymes. They were WAY below the range- meaning I have the liver of a super hero:)

Have you ever had your gallbladder looked at?

Sesser 07/17/2013

Thanks for responding! Yes, I had a hida scan and my gb is low functioning at 28 vs 35-so not grossly low. However, all my pain is left sided whereas the gb would be right sided.

One dr said gastritis would cause slight increase in lipase. Im trying my hardest to find (and hope for) something other than chronic pancreatiis. So far all my scans have been clear, have another upcoming one in a few wks

deleted_user 07/17/2013

if you think you have gastritis ask for a endoscopy, they can tell from this test, and be able to treat you gl

Sesser 07/17/2013

Oh okay, IVe had a few and they never said anything about it. One dr said if a scope isnt done at the right time it could be undetectable.

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