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.
Hi,
I've been having issues since start of March with my main symptom being nausea. I do also get burning and the odd time, strong stomach pains (like heartburn but in my tummy). I started on a mild PPI called tecta. It lessened the nausea a bit but was still dealign with it constantly. So back in maybe June, we swtiched to prevacid...first once a day, and now 2x a day.
I can have a few "ok" days where I get breakthrough nausea, but it's not constant and then may eat something and I have a few bad days where i'm constantly nauesous again (or I may not even know what triggered it).
So I'm wondering if this is "normal" for us, of how it's going to be, or if my PPI isn't working well enough? My GP did mention another one called dexilant that we could try that you take once a day but it releases the meds two times.
Any thoughts if I should stick with the prevacid or try another? I just don't know how "good" we should feel having gastritis. i assume I will never be normal again (which sucks as I'm tired waking up naueaus every day).
I've been having issues since start of March with my main symptom being nausea. I do also get burning and the odd time, strong stomach pains (like heartburn but in my tummy). I started on a mild PPI called tecta. It lessened the nausea a bit but was still dealign with it constantly. So back in maybe June, we swtiched to prevacid...first once a day, and now 2x a day.
I can have a few "ok" days where I get breakthrough nausea, but it's not constant and then may eat something and I have a few bad days where i'm constantly nauesous again (or I may not even know what triggered it).
So I'm wondering if this is "normal" for us, of how it's going to be, or if my PPI isn't working well enough? My GP did mention another one called dexilant that we could try that you take once a day but it releases the meds two times.
Any thoughts if I should stick with the prevacid or try another? I just don't know how "good" we should feel having gastritis. i assume I will never be normal again (which sucks as I'm tired waking up naueaus every day).
Am not jumping the gun as I know they meds are no miracle cures...and also, with gastritis, you can be fine and then wham...the nausea (or pain for others) will return...but am happy so far it seems good. So for those on meds, it's a note that sometimes if one isn't helping, perhaps its a matter of finding a better one that works for you.
Has anyone found it hard finding the right PPI? I'm also worried about building up a tolerance and having it work initially but then not. Any comments or experiences?