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.
If you are taking meds when can you stop taking them and just trying to use a good diet to continue to improve symptoms and heal your stomach? I have been on Omoprazole and Famotidne (Omp in the morning and Famotidine at night before bed) for the last few months. This week I have been staying good with my diet and have not really much of flare ups (if so its been very very very mild). Mainly been eating boiled chicken and rice, and Activia yogurt, applesauce, squash, bananas, kale, etc. So do most people just continue to taking meds even when symptoms are not happening? Just seems I get worried about being on meds for too long. Think at some point it becomes a harm to the body. Thoughts?
I would take it still for months after you're having no more problems.
However coming off too early will simply undo any healing you may have achieved & you'll go back to square one.... or get even worse...
Once you've been symptom free for many, many months then that'd be the time to consider slowly tapering off the meds.