r/Gastritis

The title says it all is my first time here been in pain for two whole years until they figure out I had gastritis now just doing what I can eating what I can to keep myself healthy and happy. Just wanted to post my dinner for a night, kind of a thing to hold myself accountable and help me motivate me along the way.

unseasoned salmon with plain white rice with unseasoned, black beans, rinsed and cooked on the stove.

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Hi all. First time posting, but I need some help. I’ve been dealing with this sharp, gnawing pain right under my left ribcage for a long time now, starting back in the fall of 2021. It usually hits me a few hours after I eat, and I end up having these tiny little burps. I’ve been taking 20 mg of Omeprazole consistently for about a week now (I was a bit hit-or-miss with it before that), and while it helps with the acid reflux, I’m still getting this burning feeling way up by my tonsils. Also, I’ve struggled with constipation basically my whole life, which is why I ended up getting an endoscopy and colonoscopy in December 2022. They showed some redness and mild inflammation in the lower part of my stomach, and they officially called it gastritis and reactive gastropathy. I also remember seeing orange or yellow liquid during my colonoscopy prep, which I mentioned because I wonder if it’s a bile thing. I’ve been tested for H. pylori a bunch of times between 2017 and 2022... with breath tests, stool tests, and even biopsies... but every single one has been negative. I am wondering if I have bile reflux but am unsure. I also have anxiety and have been skipping eating in the morning too. So I definitely got a lot to fix. But I was hoping this Omeprazole would do better.

Great news, finally have motility somewhat back onboard. My appetite had been extremely low, food sat in my stomach like a rock for hours (delayed gastric emptying), and I would reliably get nauseous 1-2 hours after eating. All this would be accompanied by the most soul destroying brain fog, often rendering me couch bound, dissociating, engaging in dopamine seeking repetitive behaviours, and powerless to stop. I wouldn't eat because I was hungry, but when my energy levels would dip, or just when I felt I should.

I really tried everything I could think of to get motility up and running again: artichoke extract and ginger, meal spacing, fibre, betaine HCL to increase stomach acid, Iberogast, going for a walk after food, fermented foods. None of that moved the needle.

Now I can happily report I'm getting genuinely hungry again, food intolerances and my leaky gut are better, nausea has largely vanished, gut wall just feels more sealed and less inflamed. Thankfully, I'm also experiencing less brain fog and cognitive symptoms. So what's been helping is taking higher doses of a multivitamin. The one I'm taking is 'Life Extension 2 per day', but I'm not necessarily recommending this one, it's just the one that's been working for me. I'm currently taking 6 capsules/day split into 2 doses. I wish I knew which of the compounds was doing the heavy lifting - there's over 30. I've tried most of them on their own without as much success, so it's either the synergistic effect or one of the less popular ingredients that's helping me. Perhaps later down the road I will trial each ingredient independently to identify what's helping.

I'm aware of the risks of taking higher doses of vitamins. However, I have good reason to suspect functional deficiencies (organic acids test results), and this experiment seems to confirm my suspicions. This is also not a long term strategy, I will be reassessing in a couple weeks.

I'm not making this post to necessarily recommend this to people, as there are probably relatively few of you who should try this, but this is for the people who've exhausted all other options and are getting desperate, as I was.

This is only likely to help you if you have experienced chronic long term stomach problems, which have lead to an inability to absorb nutrients from food and lead to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Also to note, your levels may look normal on bloodwork (mine did) but you can be functionally deficient, i.e. vitamins and minerals may not be getting into cells where they need to be to be utilised.

What do you eat for breakfast?

For example, if you eat oatmeal, what do you eat it with and how make it? And also, what do you eat if you have a very sensitive stomach? I read the book ‘The Gastritis Healing’ but I want to get ideas from you guys! And in the afternoon and evening.

Was wondering how long yall have had gastritis for? I’m going on 5 years now but it seems to be worse now then it was at the start kinda scary, at this point I’m scared I have an ulcer or stomach cancer but my endoscopy I got 1.5 years ago ruled that out, does it get any better? Does anyone else have chronic gastritis for this long??

I’ve taken plenty and they don’t do anything. Why is that? Does anyone actually have success? If so which did you take

I am not asking for medical advice, I am asking for people’s opinions on what they think is a good course of action while waiting for GI Appointment in July🥺

Let’s just say, long story short…I have had bouts of intense severe pain right in the middle of sternum beginning August 2024. Mostly infrequent until the last year, now at a point where it’s an issue daily.

Have been to the ER 3 times now, 2 CT Scans with contrast (normal aside for fecal matter showing constipation), diagnosed with rapid gastric emptying, GERD, Hypertrophic gastritis, am on omeprazole 40mg daily, and if a dose is missed, I end up in the er in severe pain.

No real specific foods or anything that causes the pain, there is no bowel movement issues during these “episodes”, just pain. Pain when I breathe, pain when I laydown, pain when I’m sitting up, pain when I’m curled in the fetal position, extreme pain when stretched out.

I recently found out from an MRI that I have also herniated a disc in my neck…from having to stay so hunched all the time from pain for the past 2 years.

Now I’m sitting here, 3rd day with no pain relief no matter what I take, can’t eat or drink anything without the pain skyrocketing to agony, but I have to or I’ll pass out from no nutrients. Can only sleep if I double up on muscle relaxers, and even then, only for an hour or 2.

I have lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks without trying, and I have lost 25-30 pounds since this started almost 2 years ago.

Can anyone help tell me what is causing all of this and what I can safely ingest to keep up my nutrients enough to at least function? Seeing a GI specialist at IU, that I was referred to by my current gastroenterologist, but not until July…and I honestly to god don’t think I will be able to survive until then.

Any and all comments and questions welcome!! I just got engaged and I want to be able to stand upright for my entire wedding and not feel like I have chucky dolls trying to cut their way out of me through my abdomen 🙃

What helps your hunger pains at night? I’m kinda a night owl and stay up past midnight and always feel hungry before bed. I’ll have fruit to help but know I shouldn’t lay down after. But what helps you soothe that pain without eating before bed

I’ve been struggling with gastritis for almost 3 years and still haven’t gotten the hang of it .

I was diagnosed with moderate non erosive gastritis in 2023 after having an endoscopy, I’m still suffering unfortunately to this day & my current symptoms are burping 24/7 near enough especially upon waking up in the morning and after drinking water, I burp on / off all day regardless of empty stomach or full stomach. my other biggest symptom is having a globus sensation a tight throat which actually feels like I’m being physically strangled. this has also been a symptom now for 3 years!…..its utterly depressing, I went back to see a private GI consultant in January this year who basically said the vast majority of people have some degree of gastritis and this is likely a functional issue, I don’t really know what to believe or know where to turn. When I was diagnosed in 2023 I was put on lansoprazole 30mg daily a PPI to reduce stomach acid. which somewhat helped right at the start of the diagnosis with burping/globus but hasn’t been much help in recent years…the globus never fully went away, anyway in January this year I decided to stop taking it as the GI consultant said it’s clearly having no effect, he said I don’t think your issue is acid driven, I suppose i could go for another endoscopy but I’m not sure if there’s any point, my stomach issues started at a time when I was under quite a lot of stress also my cigarette habit / being a coffee drinker probably did not help the situation, I quit smoking in early 2024 but nothing has changed for me so whilst that was probably a factor in the mix I don’t believe that was the primary cause of my stomach issues, I did have to quit smoking though as it wasn’t helping the situation, I actually had black stools up until I quit smoking so I definitely had some minor upper GI bleeding. as well as my endoscopy I underwent lots of scans to look at my bowels which were all normal.

I don’t know the cause of my gastritis perhaps this whole horrible experience has been due to stress i honestly don’t know. :(

Upper endoscopy results: mild reactive gastritis, Barrett’s

Medicine: omeprazole 40mg 2x daily past 6 weeks and just switched to pantoprazole 40mg 2x daily

My GI prescribed me 10mg nortriptyline to be taken at night to see if that helps with the thought that anxiety could be exasperating symptoms and slowing progress. Has anyone taken this, or similar, and what was your experience? My main hesitation is side effects especially anything heart related; I have no known heart issues I just get worried about heart rate etc.

I’ve been dealing with symptoms for weeks. I felt like I was dying. the constant nausea is ruining my life quite honestly.

I am a hypochondriac, which does not help.

I felt awful last night. I had no sleep basically. nausea, trapped gas, hot flashes.

I went to the doctors and could’ve cried from exhaustion, and he thinks I have gastritis. now I need to wait for my stool test.

I just want to feel better.

any advice would be so appreciated.

Hello all, I've had low ferritin for almost 8 years. Finally got it treated properly with regular infusions starting 5 years ago. Since then, about 2 years ago, I found out I was also low in b12 and am on regular injections now. I'm still trying to figure out the cause of these deficiencies.

When I was first found to be low on B12, 2 years ago, I had a negative gastroscopy with biopsies of the stomach and duodenum for Hplori and celiac.

I recently moved so switched to new doctors and was referred to repeat gastroscopy. This time, they found "mild gastritis" of the fundus, along with 2 fundal polyps. This caught me off guard a bit, as I was just expecting it to be negative again. I have no noticeable symptoms that I can attribute to the gastritis, aside from the nutrient deficiencies. The general surgeon has advised me to take PPIs for a month now, and then in 8 weeks repeat the gastroscopy to see if the gastritis has resolved. I'm super confused by this, because I know that PPIs can be the CAUSE of iron and B12 deficiencies, which I already have a long history of. So, not sure if I should take these PPIs now, before we know what the cause of the gastritis is? (or if the gastritis is the cause of the low B12/iron?)

We are still waiting on pathology reports of the biopsies he took in the fundus and the other parts, and of the polyps, of the most recent gastroscopy

I'm also waiting for the appointment with hematology and GI that I was referred to.

This summer, I stopped injections for a few weeks, and my labs dropped from by over 100pmol to 190pmol within 6 weeks. My ferritin dropped by 60 as well in that timeframe. When I started injections again, it also took months to get my levels to 500 again, the highest I've ever gotten them on injections. My dr has me on them only monthly right now. Before, I did them every 3 weeks, but never got over 430 then either while I was training a sport 5 times a week. When I started injections again, my ferritin increased again, so I think the root problem might be B12?

Any advice on how to proceed would be super welcome. Or if anyone has had similar experiences, what your cause/treatment/etc. was.

does anyone know if dual therapy (amoxicillin +omeprazole) could somehow eradicate h pylori completely if it’s both used in high amounts for 14 days? i get scared of other antibiotics and i’m only familiar with amoxicillin:(

Anybody struggling with dry mouth? I drink plenty of water and I feel it’s not sufficient. Apart from this, I have a white coating in my tongue every morning. I feel somehow this is all correlated. My assumption is that my mouth doesn’t produce enough saliva because bad bacteria from my gut stays too long in my stomach and mouth?

Lastly, I also have gastroparesis, which means my stomach breaks down food way longer.

I want to hear your story.

I'm scared of it being permanent. Can't even eat my fav foods (Basically spice loaded and spicy food).

Just went to the Drs after a couple of miserable weeks. Told him my symptoms which have come after the flu / Covid (I didn’t test) and he thinks it is gastritis.

He’s put me on some ppi’s in hope that it sorts itself out. Can I ask how yours started ? When I was sick I had an awful stomach too and recently have noticed increased eye floaters. I had no idea that was a thing.

What things can I do to help heal ?

I am 46 and being treated for Erosive gastritis with Acidity. Not sure what has caused as I was in high protein diet and oddly my alcohol intake at night binge watching disn't help either. Anyway damage is done.

So according to endoscopy and gastroenteologist they concluded its erosive gastritis. I have been on Pentaprazole combined mixed with Itopride hydrochloride capsule day and night since 20 days and 10 more days to go. I have improved my diet by sticking to vegitables and Quinoa, strictly no meat...

Things were starting to get better, but I was getting burps yesterday after eating a Guava and have developed bloating after eating one K-C donut.

Two questions..

How long does it take for the gastritis to subside?

Does taking a probiotic - Lactobasilus Returi to improve digestion help heal the problem quicker?

I had a bad reaction to Pantropazol, so my doc prescribed a brand new drug called Voquezna. Has anyone who had bad side effects to PPIs used it successfully without side effects?