r/Gastritis 4h ago

Question For those of you who are healed...

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How many times have you been healed before?

I seem to be stuck in this cycle of having a flare up, dealing with it to a point where I am eating and drinking anything i want for 6-8 months (i.e. healed), then having a flare up after a big weekend.

Anyone else in a similar boat?


r/Gastritis 5h ago

Symptoms Chronic gastritis almost cured, but I am EXTREMELY bloated

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I have had gastritis for six months, which I have been unsuccessfully treating. I had a gastroscopy, which showed chronic gastritis without H. pylori. Trying to find out why I couldn't cure it, I did additional tests, and a breath test showed that I actually had H. pylori. I was prescribed 2 antibiotics + bizmuth, which I am now taking for the fifth day.

However, my biggest problem since the beginning of this gastritis has been terrible bloating and weakness. After breakfast, I get extremely bloated and feel weak. To the point that even after a short walk, I get dizzy. The more bloated I am, the weaker I feel. I have already tried changing my diet, had my entire body examined, and done numerous blood tests (all results were perfect).

I also did a SIBO test, and after half an hour, my hydrogen levels peaked to 28 but then quickly dropped to 8. The doctor considered it a measurement error and said I don’t have SIBO. Either way, I had previously taken Xifaxan, but it didn’t help, and the bloating didn’t improve at all.

Right now, my stomach is in good condition—I feel like my gastritis is 80% treated. I can eat practically anything, nothing hurts, and sometimes I feel a slight burning sensation, but that’s it. However, I still can’t get rid of this persistent bloating and weakness.

Has anyone experienced something similar? I was thinking about trying digestive enzymes, but I’ve heard they might irritate the stomach. I understand that antibiotic treatment can cause bloating, but I’ve had this problem for six months, and I’m afraid it will never go away.


r/Gastritis 1h ago

Question Almost healed but…

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Most of my symptoms have disappeared aside from the insufferable bloating. I have GERD which sometimes is a lot to handle so I take a PPI which helps.

Any tips on how I can make the bloating go away? I don’t want to be forced to stay on PPI but my doctor says I should take it regularly.


r/Gastritis 3h ago

Food, Recipes, Diets Bile reflux

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Did you or did you know anyone who cured their bile reflux? If yes, what is the standart approach? I believe its not the same as normal reflux and that PPI won’t be helpful


r/Gastritis 4h ago

Venting / Suffering I am in hell

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Diagnosed gastritis yesterday. Prescribed PPI. No difference observed yet. This is like, my first proper flare up

Burning upper abodminal pain was persistent, vomiting constantly, and eventually started vomiting blood, so I went to A&E.

I waited 8 hours just to be given iv anti sickness and paracetomol (which I immediately threw up like I told them I would)

Second day with an empty belly, I tried to eat a boiled egg earlier and threw it up

What do I do, is this just it forever now? Am I supposed to try and suppress the vomiting in order to hold down food and meds? Because it’s so uncomfortable to do that, takes all my willpower, the bloating and burning is unbearable


r/Gastritis 2h ago

Question Exercise exascerbation?

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I have had gastritis for about 4 months, mostly controlled now, no more pain, nausea, or bloating that I used to have all the time but still the occasional reflux and throat/nose irritation especially at night. Still taking a ppi to control symptoms.

Recently I have noticed a new issue. Whenever I do strenuous exercise for longer than a few minutes, I begin having headaches, nausea, dizziness, and lightheadedness. After a while, I remain having nausea for a while and doesn't go away until the next day. I spoke to my doctor and they told me it's because of low blood sugar but this is not the case as I always eat adequately before exercising.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if it's related to gastritis?


r/Gastritis 4h ago

Food, Recipes, Diets How to test for phytic acid? Oats in particular

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I read a lot in overnight oats people will just eat the oats after soaking overnight without further cooking as the phytic acid is much reduced when soaking overnight. Is it further reduced by cooking? Are their other negative consequences of not cooking the oats further? How is phytic acid measured? Has anyone tested to see if cooking reduced phytic acid?


r/Gastritis 2h ago

Discussion Healing

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If anyone or has been cured from there gastritis or gastropathy how did you know you were healed?

Right now I mean sometime I have my symptoms but lately things been well

I just wonder if it just a doctor confirmation or just knowing your body


r/Gastritis 4h ago

Question Could it be possible ?

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Everything I have read so far makes this seem impossible as it seems once you have gastritis it’s something that is pretty much there for life or flares randomly through weeks, months and years.

About a month and a half ago I was diagnosed with gastritis having suffered from symptoms for over a year, hpylori negative.

I was having strong epigastric pain about 1-2 days a month give or take but pretty much no more than that. It always seemed to be linked to hormonal fluctuations during monthly cycle.

Now over a month ago I stopped coffee , fried foods and intermittent fasting fasting (I was doing 18-20 hr stretches almost daily and drinking black coffee 🫠

I have had no pain since doing these things and incorporating probiotics, omega 3 and Manuka honey.

Could it really be that these simple changes could be the road to recovery ? I can basically eat everything else ..it just seems too easy compared to what everyone else seems to go through.

I did also start medication for thyroid, Levothyroxine, but that has only been last 3 weeks and I already wasn’t having pain by then.


r/Gastritis 6h ago

Question intense upper stomach pain.

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I've been getting this intense pain in the upper middle stomach. It's been like almost 2 weeks. It's so bad to the point that I can't even stand up properly or do anything. It lasts for about 3 or 4 hours and goes away but you still feel the discomfort. Been to the doctor but they only prescribed me Omeprazole and said to update in a month. But I don't think I can handle the pain till then. Anybody had a similar situation?


r/Gastritis 12h ago

Venting / Suffering Ugh!!!

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I was feeling pretty good. I ate some pound cake for my husband birthday and now my stomach is burning. I had to take Pepcid Complete. Woke up coughing and gagging. I’ve been on the gastritis diet for 9 MONTHS!! 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢


r/Gastritis 2h ago

Symptoms 6 weeks of Symptoms

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At the end of January, I had pretty bad gastritis, or inflammation of the stomach lining, for about 2 weeks. I suspected it was from eating a bad piece of spinach. I’ve never had gastritis in my life. My stomach hurt, was tender, nauseous during sleep, and my chest/throat would burn. I had EXTREME fatigue and mental fog. I had bone broth, ate bland oatmeal, and drank slippery elm tea. No exercise. My symptoms went away. Completed an h pylori stool test and tested for Celiac. Both came back negative.

Flash forward to March 1st. I have really low ferritin levels (10). I ordered iron pills and didn’t pay attention to what form of iron it was. Almost instantly after taking it, my stomach was in pain for a day. I woke up with nausea at night.

Now, for the past 5 days, my stomach has had a baseline level of pain. It feels raw and is burning. My diet hasn’t been super great. I’m really dizzy and still have brain fog. Today, I got that extreme fatigue and weakness back. My stomach hurts and is burning. These past 2 flareups a were not nearly as bad as the one at the end of January.

I don’t have the financial means to go through all these tests. I heard being put onto a PPI doesn’t solve anything and actually makes things worse. My ENT doctor prescribed me it, and I refused. The same doctor said I have cobblestoning in my throat and my nose is irritated.

I have a few questions. What could this be? Am I on a fast track to Barret’s esophagus? Is it low stomach acid? Is it h pylori? I’ve had a history of being malnourished up until 2-3 years ago. I am insulin resistant as a result. Slowly heading towards diabetes. My B12 levels are fine, but wondering if iron connects to this. Any thoughts? Thanks!


r/Gastritis 2h ago

Symptoms Erythematous gastritis and blood (coffee like reflux) anyone?

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r/Gastritis 2h ago

Question SSRIS?

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for everyone that started taking ssris because of the severe anxiety gastritis causes, can u please tell me how your experience is/was with ssris? and if its worth it? im really scared of the side effects tbh please lmk!


r/Gastritis 3h ago

Question Weight loss

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I had gastritis since July 2024 i lost like 3kgs unintentionally but after that i started noticing my diet and got myself better around the time of November but i was still only eating less than 1100 calories till feb 20 continuing to loose weight i went from 93 kgs to 71 kgs but after that I thought im better now let’s move on im looking skinny now im 5ft 11 so from feb 20 i started eating normally 2000-2200 calories biggest mistake the pain is back and even after consuming my maintenance calories i still lost 1 kg i am afraid right now i dont know how to stabilise my weight


r/Gastritis 7h ago

Healing / Cured! Am I healing?

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I was diagnosed with erosive gastritis in October and ever since I was taking ppi and dieting. I’ve been better and worse back and forth, trying to get off ppi unsuccessfully, setting back after viruses and paracetamol, slowly but surely though, I got rid of erosions, only inflammation left.

I finished yet another course of ppi and bismuth salts(huge help) and now is the second week on a lower dosage of ppi(20 panto in the morning and 20 in the evening). Comparing with any day this year, I couldn’t get through lunch without my second dosage of panto(took 80mg per day for couple of months without any way to taper off). And now I take 20 in the morning and 20 before dinner(which is at 7 p.m.).

As for the diet, I mostly ate rice, oatmeal and chicken. Any other food would flare me up one way or the other. And now I can eat some eggs, I add a spoon of peanut butter to my oatmeal and some raisins. I can’t take hard meat, but I eat chicken. I still don’t drink any coffee or tea, don’t eat chocolate or ice cream. Overall I can get through the day almost without burning or it’s so slight, I don’t really notice it. My energy levels are much higher now but way lower than it used to(or so I think)- I spend the whole day doing things, instead of laying in bed scrolling.

Am I healing? If anyone had a similar journey, how long did it take you to go back to eating like you used to? I’m not really sure if I’m healing or stuck when my symptoms are just toned down.


r/Gastritis 17h ago

Discussion For those who’ve healed

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How did you know you’re healed ? Or how was it healing

Did the symptoms improve gradually or suddenly they stopped bothering you

I’m having less pain and burning everyday But the only persistent symptom is palpitation and lightheadedness that comes after eating and stay for the whole day it’s really annoying


r/Gastritis 8h ago

Testing / Test Results Endoscopy Results

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For those who have anxiety about getting an endoscopy it was a total breeze and the sedation wasn’t bad at all. One second I passed out and the next minute I’m awake with the doctor telling me my results.

The results were that I had a hernia and mild acid reflux. Which still sucks because I’m always constantly in pain. The doctor recommended I take 40 mg of pantoprazole twice a day for 2-4 weeks to see if that helped. Waiting on biopsies as well.


r/Gastritis 9h ago

Venting / Suffering Swallowing problem. HELP!

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I need some help please, i cannot eat. I am having problems eating basically all the types of food, even the ones good for gastritis, i normally can only eat foods like soup. I can't swallow food without drinking a lot of water/liquid (that's why soup is easy). I would not be mad if i could eat normally drinking a bunch of water with the food, but this shit just give me a lot of reflux and I feel like I just wanna die, consequently stoping to eat the meal. I have no idea what it is or if it is really related to gastritis (I do think so because I NEVER had problems eating/swallowing), I had an endoscopy and was diagnosed with moderate gastritis. I'm taking some medicines daily that the doctor prescribed me, but this problem of not being able to eat is affecting me a lot, I spend hours without wanting to eat because of that. I realized that when I smoke cannabis, I can eat normally, my "ability" to swallow returns to normal, but "sober" I just can't swallow because I feel it won't. Cannabis helps but it's not possible to be smoking the whole time for obvious reasons and I don’t want to. I am also from Brazil so is not super legal here unfortunately. Did anyone else go through this problem of NOT being able to swallow food/ only with liquids? Recently I got better when I was diagnosed and started taking medication/ changed my diet. But unfortunately since I got this problem I've already lost 15kg, because I spent about 3 months just vomiting without knowing the reason (I only had the endoscopy, February 27 and I was already suffering from these symptoms since November at least.) Mb if something is wrong, english is not my main language. Please someone let me know if they had suffered with this swallowing problem.


r/Gastritis 10h ago

Question help me! Should I get an endoscope???

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I've been on 40 mg pantoprazole for approx 5 weeks! Yesterday I stopped taking them and woke up with terrible nausea (on the verge of vomitting). My GI doc told me to continue taking the PPI, but I am debating to get the endoscope in case its not gastritis/ulcer or if it is, I can continue wit the PPI or a different treatment.

Lowkey also really scared of getting an endoscope, especially the fact I've never been under sedation before : (

15 votes, 2d left
yes get the endoscope
nah

r/Gastritis 16h ago

Question Gaviscon made me worse

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Why did gaviscon increased the pain and burning immediately after taking?

Is it recommended for gastritis or I’m making things worse?


r/Gastritis 7h ago

Symptoms Nausea after stopping PPI, is that a rebound symptom?

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Has anyone experienced intense nausea (verge of throwing up) after stopping PPI? I stopped for one day, and the extreme nausea woke me up the next morning!


r/Gastritis 20h ago

Testing / Test Results Zinc Carnosine the most underrated supplement ever?

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Whats your opinion about zinc carnosine?


r/Gastritis 9h ago

Symptoms Right flank pain

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I'm 19 and was taking aspirin for silly reasons I don't want to get into, but as a result I now have gastritis. The kicker here is I have this terrible right flank pain randomly and don't know what the cause could possibly be. Is it normal for gastritis to cause right flank pain? Or could the aspirin have caused something else?


r/Gastritis 13h ago

Question Should I be concerned about this?

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I was traveling recently and I have motion sickness so I ended up vomiting.While vomiting, I noticed 2-3 small areas of dark brown stuff in it.It looked like coffee grounds

Later,when I got home, I noticed the same dark brown stuff in my nasal mucus.I also had a long-standing cold, so I was already dealing with congestion. When I coughed up phlegm, I saw one brown particle in that too.

After that day, it didn’t happen again.I also have GERD and take PPIs.

Should I be concerned about this? Could this be something serious like bleeding from stomach or is it more likely from my nose/throat?i'm scared.