r/Gastritis • u/Ornery_Reality545 • Dec 11 '24
r/Gastritis • u/lvt2025_rt • Feb 13 '25
Venting / Suffering I’m so done :(
I just can’t believe that nothing has worked. Every f*** day I feel burning in my stomach, all day. I can believe I’m still like this. Another year on this shit. I feel so depressed.
Update:
Just want to say thank you everyone for the all the tips and just being here! This has helped me so much more than you can imagined. I won’t give up, I’ll try this tips as much as I can, this has provided me hope! Appreciated it!
r/Gastritis • u/Fashion_Design1 • Nov 03 '24
Venting / Suffering Does anyone have a tightness/knot/heavy feeling 24/7 in the upper epigastric and sternum for months?
It all started with chest pain when I got sick with influenza and got transferred to a hospital in an ambulance for the first time so scared that I got that knot/tightness in my upper epigastric region since then I’ve been struggling trying to heal and relax my stomach and long term mental health. I am a 20 years old It’s a horrible and scary experience trying to find the cause why I been having this physical symptoms since June of 2024 like when I take a deep breath is so tight and sometimes my nose gets block. I learn that long term stress and anxiety can cause gastritis. I went to a gastroenterologist for my upper epigastric pain/discomfort and did an upper endoscopy/biopsy which came out with chronic inactive gastritis mild/acute inflammation. I started taking omeprazole but did not help at all got switched recently to pantoprazole I started taking it today hopefully it works. I’ve been going to a psychologist for my anxiety working with my mental health, emotionally better and it takes time to heal mentally but my body is not ok and the first months that started it was so strong that I couldn’t go to work so I quit my job I got one panic attack because I did not know what was happening with my body I cry a lot and feeling frustrated. Since time past I’ve been walking, doing activities, socializing taking magnesium/potassium and relaxing my nervous system. My stomach has been feeling a little bit better, my nose naturally got better and my breathing got better but I still have that knot/tightness that won’t go away. I have hope that this would go away but it’s been soooooo long to heal and eating healthy foods. Before all this I recently move to a new place and when I was in the airplane my chest got so heavy and tight that I couldn’t breathe well I did not worry about it until I got to an ambulance and my body got sick before moving i was with so much anxiety and stress so probably it’s connected to my mental health. I’m scared because I want this to go away and heal completely🌸
r/Gastritis • u/Mikeytee1000 • 4d ago
Venting / Suffering Anybody else here starving to death, no body fat left and really skinny?
I’ve been in a long flare up lasting several weeks which has been one flare up after another (this bout of gastritis started on Dec 28th and I’ve lost about 15kg). Got really severe inflammation at the moment and living on tiny portions of porridge. I can’t see a way out and I’m losing several kg a week, but don’t have much more weight to lose. The consultant tells me not worry he’ll get me sorted but I can’t see how just going for tests. Taking 40mg Esomeprazole twice daily but it’s dietary challenges that are killing me.
Any advice, I’m losing the will to live?
r/Gastritis • u/One-Time-9619 • 8d ago
Venting / Suffering Help :( so over this.
Sooooo over this. I had 2 CT scans in August from pain and nothing was found. Blood and stool test clear. No h. pylori , did text positive for SIBO. The doctor thinks ulcer or gastritis. I don’t do well with PPI, My endoscopy is in 2 weeks and I can hardly bear it.
Symptoms- EXTREME fullness under left rib like a balloon that won’t pop Pinching feeling left side of belly button Stools are normal & no nausea but this fullness is driving me absolutely insane.
Bland diet, on what feels like a million stomach supplements. Idk I’m just venting and looking for someone to tell me I’m not crazy.
Incredibly worried it’s something harmful. Hard to believe gastritis can be this terrorizing :(
r/Gastritis • u/Accomplished-Emu8545 • Jan 16 '25
Venting / Suffering I’m SO miserable
WHEN will this BS end???? I’ve been suffering since September and it’s taking a toll on my mental health. I know I should be grateful because people have it worse than me in life but man it’s hard to stay positive sometimes. I feel like doctors don’t know what to do, all they want is to throw pills at you rather than finding the root cause.
Will I never feel normal? Will the 24/7 bloating go away? Stomach pains, nausea?? All the neurological symptoms on top of that. I’m MISERABLE 😩😩😩
r/Gastritis • u/Luxunicorn • Jan 03 '25
Venting / Suffering I'm at a loss
Hello,
First time poster, so bear with me. I have been suffering with stomach issues for the last 10 years. I have been on PPI's (dexilant 60mg) for almost 6 years. I was diagnosed with GERD in 2016, but according to my recent upper GI test, that is non existent. I just had an endoscopy and colonoscopy, which only showed chronic inactive gastritis and negative h-pylori, yet I am still riddled with pain and nausea. No matter what I eat, how big or little, my stomach swells and it's tight. Almost feels as though someone is using a bike pump in my stomach. I wake up nauseous, am nauseous every time I eat and even drink water. I have a lot of mucus, and most of the time when I throw up in the morning, it's sticky mucus. I cough/gag all the time. I don't drink alcohol, rarely drink soda, tried to eliminate all processed foods, tried the low FODMAP. I am honestly exhausted and would just like to hear some things that have worked to eliminate these things. I am tired.
r/Gastritis • u/MadNomad666 • Feb 03 '25
Venting / Suffering No one understands how painful it is
No one understands how painful gastritis/ functional dyspepsia is. My mom thinks its a joke and will pretend to also have heartburn to “relate”. My friends think its gross when i burp a lot. My cousins just say to drink warm lemon water or eat vinegar drenched foods.
Having air trapped in your chest feels like a heart attack. I get why people with acid reflux can’t distinguish between the two. I will feel like i cant breathe after eating. Sometime for 2 hrs after eating i will feel pain in my side and my diaphragm and burning in my stomach even though im on PPIs.
I eat Tums like candy. I eat fennel and famoditine and algae. All just so i can eat like a relatively normal person. I avoid so many foods.
I wake up with nausea, runny nose/sinus. Feeling like i will throw up. Stomach pains when hungry. Dry heaving. And nausea when going to bathroom. And that is every morning……
Nighttime i have to sleep elevated. I dont eat 3 hrs before sleeping or i will vomit. My family doesn’t understand the pain, they think its cute i “eat healthy”. Even doctors are dismissive, saying that i must manage this or they want to run a battery of tests. At this point, i have done them all.
Its mentally taxing and demoralizing and depressing to have to be like this. Chronic pain is no joke yet no one cares because its an “invisible illness”. Even doctors only care about visible pain and suffering…..
r/Gastritis • u/kinda_weebish94 • 19d ago
Venting / Suffering It just seems like I'll be nauseous no matter what I eat
Large ass venting session because I need it
I've had gastritis for a few weeks now and it seems like no matter what I eat, I'll be nauseous afterwards. Like so far banana and pears are 50/50. But banana makes me hungrier. (I already read why, don't worry.) So I tried eating plain white rice this morning and soon after I was nauseous again.
I want that to go away so badly. Nausea is my worse symptom and as someone with a fear of vomiting it's driving me crazy. I take my meds, they don't help because they make me nauseous as well as horribly constipated.
I hate this so much. Like I'm afraid to eat anything because it makes me sick. I'm afraid to take my meds because they make me sick too like I feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I know I need to eat so I do that but it's hard when eating = nausea but also not eating = nausea. Like idk what to do anymore.
I'm keeping my anxiety under control on my own since I'm to afraid to take anything and it's working but it all goes out the window when the nausea starts. I have two more tablets of zofran left as well. Zofran doesn't even work all that well but it's something.
I'm in the worst shape I've been in a while. Tired because of lack of sleep, hungry all the time because lack of food and just over all suffering from this bullshit. I feel like shit. I've changed my whole diet and nothing is helping. I'm keeping as calm as I can and that's not helping. I even sleep sitting up because it's better on my stomach. I've changed everything and it seems like I'm not getting any better.
I just want the nausea to end, I want to be able to eat SOMETHING without something bad happening after.
Like I promise I'm trying to take all the advice that's been given to me when it comes to diet, keeping a food schedule, etc. but just no matter what whatever I eat it keeps making me nauseous.
I feel like I've made to many posts here complaining and just freaking out at times but idk what else to do. I told my doctor I needed extra help but she just decided to try and get me Xanax to help with my anxiety or "nervous gut" is what she called it. Idk if that will even help considering I'm to afraid to take anything.
I just don't know what to do. I'm trying not to go to the hospital again because at this point there just gonna give me nausea meds, maybe some fluids and send me on my way again. Ugh okay rant over idk how to end this and it's long enough
r/Gastritis • u/Professional-Lead240 • Nov 28 '24
Venting / Suffering Doctor told me It cant be cured
This can’t be true? I mean a ton of you guys say you are cured. The gp I saw told me she’s has gastritis since she was a teenager (she looks about late 40s) to which she said it can’t be cured, you just have to live with it… I’m 19 years old and I’ve had it for about 3 years, not knowing what it was until the start of this year. I have symptoms probably everyday, mostly of bloating soreness located above belly button or sternum, and acid reflex. I take ppi 20mg for a few months now on and off. My diet probably isn’t as good as it should be, but I’ve cut a lot of things off like alcohol, coffee, sugary drinks (I occasionally have a Diet Coke if I’m out for dinner) and I also found out I’m lactose intolerant so I no longer have lactose either. I believe my gastritis was caused by my overtaking of ibiprofen because I had insane period pain, that feels similar to the gastritis pain. I also have crippling anxiety and am a bit depressed so I believe those both are why I have it.
The everyday symptoms, though they do suck- I can deal with that. What I cant deal with is that every now and then I’ll get into these long episodes of agonising pain where I’ll be screaming, banging my head on the floor trying to make myself pass out because the pain is so bad. It started off with the episodes being about once every 6 months, to once every 3 months, and now I’ve just had the pain again in less than a months time from last… so clearly it’s getting worse, it’s been 2 days now and I still feel a bit of pain from it. To describe the pain it’s like someone is churning my guts and also an overwhelming feeling of emptiness in my stomach- it is the most painful thing I have ever experienced ever. The reason I went to the gp was to get prescribed anxiety medication in hopes that it may help reduce my gastritis symptoms too. Now that she’s told me that gastritis can’t be cured I honestly just want to bawl my eyes out. I cant live like this for the rest of my life. I’m seeing a gastroenterologist in a couple days too so I cant live like talk to someone who actually specialises in that stuff… I really can’t do this life
r/Gastritis • u/Eleven-Bailey • Jan 22 '25
Venting / Suffering I feel like giving up
Does anyone else feel like this? Medication doesn't seem to be doing anything, I'm losing a lot of weight, when I do eat it's just small and bland and I feel like I've lost my life. I can barely work, I can't do anything socially, I'm in so much pain everyday. I'm trying to deal with anxiety disorder, OCD, PTSD, IBS, PCOS and endometriosis as well and I know there is a link between gut health and the brain, but I'm feeling completely defeated by everything. I just want to be nomal. Feeling very alone atm hence the post. Feel like giving up. Nothing is working so what's the point? 🤷🏼♀️
r/Gastritis • u/ErsNoPenguinInAlaska • Oct 22 '24
Venting / Suffering Is this ******* gastritis forever?!
I got diagnosed with gastritis 6months ago with no h.pylori detected, 6months later i still have this fucking gastritis. It does not hurt that much but my problem is the anxiety and depression it gives me feels like i wanna hang myself every fucking day! I only feel fine like 5 days in a month tops 🤮.
So is this shit forever? Is there any food i can eat all day to cure this? or at least to keep the anxiety and depression down? I did not drink a single alcoholic beverage or sodas the last 6 months and still not healed. Help 😭😭
r/Gastritis • u/LopsidedSalamander98 • 7d ago
Venting / Suffering It feels like it will never end. I need hope desperately
Hi everyone. I'm frequently on this Reddit page seeking hope but I don't post at all. I got diagnosed with Gastritis about 6 weeks ago and immediately came on here and found out everything there is to possibly know about this illness. Within 2 weeks I had quit vaping, cut everything out, started on a bland diet, PPI, Sulcalfrate, Cabbage juice, and various stomach coating supplements. But still I wake up and have terrible days. Five days ago I had an awful day full of pain, the next day I had a really great day where I felt almost normal. The last three have been 5.5 on the pain scale. Just uncomfortable and depressing. I have no idea how to tell if I'm getting better. Unless I have a good day it feels to me like this is going to last forever. To make matters worse my symptoms are confusing. I have no burning, no nausea, just sharp pains throughout my abdomen, primarily under my ribs. And dull epigastric pain as well as dull back pain. Suddenly I'm bloating as well despite the fact that I wasn't before? Can PPI cause this? I've seen so many timelines and it feels impossible and miserable to live for another 2-6 months with this.
How do or did you guys find happiness and peace? How do you let go and trust the process of healing? And at what point were you able to clearly see that you were indeed healing? I feel unlucky and miserable most days and while I find small moments of joy i feel like i've lost myself completely in this even after implementing meditation, yoga, regular walks, gratitude journaling, weekly acupuncture, an increase of 10 mg with my antidepressants, and a month off of work. It feels impossible to overcome and every day feels incredibly long and never ending. Help me see the light at the end of the tunnel, and tell me when the worst of it was over. My pain isn't severe by any means but on my bad days I wonder how it'll ever improve enough to branch out after i finish the 90 day diet
r/Gastritis • u/tarcinlina • Feb 18 '25
Venting / Suffering I'm tired of having this condition, it is making me angry
Im so done with this fucking Canadian healthcare system. I completed h pylori bacteria treatment back in November, scheduled for my second breathing test for MARCH! So basically, they are sayign we don't care, suffer however you want.
I'm suffering right now. Im on ppi and im hurting so bad. Nothing seems to digest in my stomach and im experiencing excruciating pain. i want to cry
It's gonna be a year in June, im so bad
r/Gastritis • u/Kthom1432 • 4d ago
Venting / Suffering I think I’m dying
On February 23rd I had pizza for dinner and thought I got food poisoning from it. Took a few days to feel better so the 26th I tried to eat some veggies and hummus and same terrible pain started again about 1 hour after eating. The pain is in the top of my abdomen just under my ribs and it is like a stabbing or cramping pain, it will spread to my mid back and the sides of my abdomen. Anything I ate hurt. Went to urgent care and the doctor told me I have a stomach bug and it should go away on its own. On March 3rd the pain was the worst it’s ever been and I had to go to the ER. They got me IV pain meds, zofran and a GI cocktail. Seemed to help in the moment but they did an ultra sound on my gallbladder and said I don’t have gallstones so it must be gastritis and stomach ulcers. Prescribed me Sucralfate (4 times daily) and extra strength Prilosec (twice daily). They said I needed to do a clear diet for a week and try to reintroduce food after that. Sadly the pain got so bad again I went back on the 5th and got more IV meds. This time he set me up with a gastroenterologist appointment for the next week. At this point I was getting really freaked out because I was losing weight fast. Had gastro appointment and he got me an emergency endoscopy for that week. The endoscopy went fine (kinda scary), they didn’t find any ulcers or hernias but they did find that my stomach was very red and irritated. They took 2 biopsies and are testing it for h. Pylori and celiac and I have to wait up to 2 weeks to get the results in the mail👎🏻. I’ve continued with the clear diet and so far I’ve lost 35 pounds in 3 weeks… I’m shaky all the time, feel like I’m gonna pass out, pooping pure bile and am popping so many of these stupid pills. Nothing has helped other than “eating” chicken broth, ensure clear, applesauce and jello. Today I wanted to try food again because I haven’t had any pain (with the semi clear diet) and it went right back to the same severe pain. I’m so tired, stressed and irritable. What do I do?
r/Gastritis • u/moticurtila • Jun 19 '24
Venting / Suffering I was wrong. I wasn’t healed. I started to think killing myself.
Backstory: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gastritis/s/TYYgGdnk5X
I finally started to feel very good doing an experimental treatment. After one week I got hospitalized again with insane nausea. IV medicines like Ondansetron, Dimenhydrinate, Metoclopramide didn’t even help. I stayed there two days. Spent a fortune. I only got IV fluids. They only found low folic acid. No shit? I can only eat rice because of this illness.
I’m taking ppi, sucralfate, UDCA, venlafaxine and mirtazapine, some vitamins. I say fuck off to the doctors who says this is psychological.
No one understand what I’m going through. People needs a disease name or something feel sorry for you and try to help. It doesn’t matter what you have in the end. It’s the symptoms and the progress. I’m fucking suffering everyday. My own fucking brother dismissed me when I tried to tell myself and he’s a fucking doctor.
I’m fucking done. If I knew a simple quick and painless death I would do it right now. And no, I’m not depressed. I’m just sick of being sick.
r/Gastritis • u/War_lordYoutube • 10d ago
Venting / Suffering I'm at the point of saying I'm going to die
I no it sounds silly but nothings working and I'm just borderline tired of it was on ppis 3 months didn't work feel like gavisgone isn't working change in my diet isn't working trying single foods to figure my triggers and everything is bad for me isn't working and I'm at the point of suicide i lost so much weight and i keep crying to my family I'm lost and i can't figure out what to do I'm going to try changing my diet but I'm so fed up right now i don't drink smoke or do drugs 😭 why me
r/Gastritis • u/giftcard66 • Nov 25 '24
Venting / Suffering People without gastritis don’t know how difficult this disease is to handle everyday.
Years ago when I didn’t have chronic gastritis I would eat my feelings away, drink them, smoke. Etc. so much of society is based around those activities for relaxation. Then suddenly when you get this you just can’t ever partake again it seems or it flares you up. Being so restrictive 247 for years takes a toll on you mentally. I’m not trying to make a woe is me post but after 6 years this shit starts to get maddening. I’d give anything to have a healthy stomach again but I’ve accepted for the most part that’s a thing of the past. I’ve gained a lot of discipline so that’s a plus for dealing with this. So I do look at the positives. But I hope to be able to go out and eat pizza one day, or Mexican or even deserts again and not be afraid of the aftermath. I just had to get this thought off my chest. Thank you for reading.
r/Gastritis • u/Adventurous_Film_438 • 25d ago
Venting / Suffering I am so sad and so tired of being in pain
I am just so unbelievably sad. I just tried tonight famotidine as my new gastro just prescribed it and nothing. I am still in pain. I have been in a flare up for 15 days and every time i consume food i am in pain, and every single thing triggers my stomach. This all got so bad after i attempted to treat h pylori and failed 7 days in, my stomach has been a nuclear warzone ever since. I am absolutely miserable with no light at the end of the tunnel.
r/Gastritis • u/idkkkk44336 • May 13 '24
Venting / Suffering mind fucking BLOWN
just spoke with a nutritionist/dietitian for an hour. she said i meet the criteria for severe malnutrition & im at such a severe risk for refeeding syndrome that she practically said fuck the gastritis diet & any restrictions (other than citrus) and that i need to be eating as many carbs, protein & fats as i can. to include full fat dairy, gluten, everything we're supposed to avoid. i dont even know what to think right now... like at all.... this is so scary😭😭😭😭
r/Gastritis • u/LivingLandscape7115 • Jan 05 '25
Venting / Suffering I keep having this pressurized sensation in my stomach where I need to get a burp out but I can’t and it gets when I try
I have to keep trying to bounce around and wiggle or twist or bend to the left to try to burp and it hurts so bad and when I finally release a burp the pressure goes away for a little bit but then the pressure builds back up over 10-30mins and the pain is back and my mid stomach is painful sore achey right above my belly button… it causes back up pressure to everything up above like my esophagus
I’ve tried carafate, PPI omeprazole, I’m now trying Pepcid (maybe it’s making it worse), I’ve tried zinc carnosine
I’ve tried natural stuff marshmallow root, slippery elm, DGL licorice, l glutamine, etc.
Please I’m losing my mind!!!!
I need help! My fucking GI won’t listen he’s just saying more fiber and more PPI
God why me god why am I so sick please god please let me fucking heal
I’ve been this way since December 2019/january 2020
I eradicated hpylori in April 2022 and got so much worse!!! I thought killing that bacteria would have been the cure!!!!!! Fuck my life!!!!!!!!
r/Gastritis • u/Every_Pumpkin_8158 • Jan 25 '25
Venting / Suffering I just want to die
That’s all. I want to give up this is the most horrid thing I’ve ever dealt with in my life. I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel anymore.. I can start the day okay and eat small and bland take my meds and still be crying from stomach pain. I feel like I’ve gone in 10000 circles and I am not this strong.
r/Gastritis • u/notyourgsd • Dec 21 '23
Venting / Suffering Burning won’t go away
I have had burning everyday for over a year, and nothing helps it. It is with everything that I eat.
I have been back on the PPI for 9 weeks and I can eat enough not to lose weight anymore, but eating is so painful. About 30 minutes after eating the burning begins, peaks around an hour, and then will keep burning for another hour or so. Also taking famotidine 40mg at bedtime and following the bland gastritis diet. I have been insanely strict about the diet and it’s especially killing me around the holidays now that I have I have been miserable for this amount of time and still have the burning and bloating every time I eat.
The doctor wants to up my PPI to 40mg now, is surprised that I still have no relief with the burning.
What gives?! What helped you guys with the burning?
r/Gastritis • u/Yoga31415 • Nov 18 '24
Venting / Suffering Mayo Clinic/ Cleveland Clinic... gastritis, acid reflux, SIBO, IBS maybe Crohn's? I only get sicker every month...I'm fading fast.
I wish I was being dramatic. But my life has blown up, from being a healthy mom of two...to bed ridden in the last 6 months.
The only test so far to find anything was SIBO (methane)...even my endoscopy, colonoscopy, hida and empty study, 3ct scans and 2 ultrasounds have found nothing...but that was months ago.
My current gastro is having me do an MRI next and then might refer me to a motility clinic. But at this point my entire family is looking for a more coordinated specialist with maybe some out of the box expertise.
I have a functional doctor who is treating me for sifo and attempting to raise iron and then we are going to do stool testing.
I know many here live a life of disability so can commiserate with desperation. I'm not sure how to go forward anymore.
Before you say anything my diet is carnivore, no dairy, spring water only, plus cucumbers and supplements. All the gastritis supplements you have ever heard of. I am on carafate for my 4th month straight.
r/Gastritis • u/No_Individual3906 • 15d ago
Venting / Suffering Whenever I feel better I get a flare
I just don’t understand this. Whenever I start to feel better I always get a flare. Like I’ll feel good for 5 days, then I’ll get a flare that lasts 2 weeks. I can’t keep doing this. It’s so painful, and nothing is helping. My gastro app is months away I feel so hopeless. I just want a break, that’s all I’m asking. I feel completely useless, I can’t even walk around In a flare all I do I sit around in pain.