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.
After my pain stated and my endoscopy, CT scans all showed nothing, I was puzzled. But as time went on (Approx. 1 month after the pain started) I started to feel much better and moved from the BRAT diet back to my usual diet of eggs, oatmeal,cottage cheese,chicken,etc. I was feeling great (even managed to have a 5 slices of pizza last thursday with jalepenos with no pain) and had a follow up with my GI last weekend, he told me he went over my endoscope and did a biopsy or something and confirmed Gastritis. He told me to fish my nexium trial and I should get better on my own. Well I stopped nexium on Sunday and the pain came back gradually and by wednesday I decided to go back on nexium, but the pain is worse now (not as bad as it was a month ago but its persistent and its really discomforting) Are my symptoms returning because I stopped nexium? I'm also suffering from a lot more flatulence and bloating in general lately. (but I'm consuming 250g of protein/day so that could be the reason)
Cliff notes:
- Follow up with my GI after a month and he confirms GI
- Stop nexium, says it will get better by itself
- Pain starts up again and I start taking nexium again
- Has been hurting all day, don't know why. Even egg whites which gave me no trouble caused discomfort.
- Haven't had a "gastritis attack" since mid January, this is probably the worst pain since then.
Cliff notes:
- Follow up with my GI after a month and he confirms GI
- Stop nexium, says it will get better by itself
- Pain starts up again and I start taking nexium again
- Has been hurting all day, don't know why. Even egg whites which gave me no trouble caused discomfort.
- Haven't had a "gastritis attack" since mid January, this is probably the worst pain since then.
If it's any consolation, I had been feeling well for many months, then--wham! My fibromyalgia kicked up--and so did the gastritis. Very surprising, as I had felt great. So now I'm back to square one.
I've had lots of bloating, too, and am considering trying to go as gluten-free as possible. May not be easy since I'm back on the gastritis 'diet,' so we'll see how it goes!
Might damp, cool weather be playing a part in your 'attack'? I live in the U.S. in the midwest, and I'm almost positive the weather is playing a large role in the return of this 'monster.' I'm looking forward to warmer weather, too!
I've never been on nexium, so unfortunately I'm no help. Hopefully someone else can weigh in.
Take care and I hope you see improvement soon!!
And I don't think it's the weather as I'm from Southern Canada and it's absolutely freezing here!
I've been giving it some more thought and the re-emergence of my symptoms happens around the same time I began to take my pre workout supplement again. It contains 1500mg of beta alanine, 150mg of caffeine, creatine, etc. I'm gonna lay off it for now and see what happens