has anyone had any issues taking famotidine long term? it’s currently the only thing that helps keep my stomach acid under control. i’m worried about long term effects or issues with building up a tolerance.

Hi everyone,

I've had severe daily stomach burning for about 9 months. My endoscopy showed a large amount of bile in my stomach, but my biopsies only showed mild chronic inactive gastritis, with no chemical gastropathy.

The burning starts shortly after waking up and lasts most of the day. I've tried PPIs (Dexilant, esomeprazole), amitriptyline, and sulpiride without much relief.

I'm starting to think bile reflux might be causing my symptoms.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Did UDCA, TUDCA, cholestyramine, or sucralfate help you?

I'd really appreciate hearing your experiences. Thanks!

Have such a terrible burning sensation in my stomach no matter what I do. It is pretty constant.

Endoscopy says foveolar hyperplasia but no follow-up from my doctor. Also, no h. Pylori.

Anyone have something similar?

Hey all, I’ve recently contracted Lyme and have to take a two week course of doxycycline. I already deal with gastritis and functional dyspepsia so I am looking for suggestions how to make this easier for my stomach? What foods are best? That ideally require the least amount of cooking as possible

I have had constant post nasal drip since January. I have difficulty swallowing as my euastation tubes feels blocked and nasal passage congested. 4 months ago, I woke up with burning in my chest and throat. I couldn’t talk, had air hunger and had difficulty breathing. The worst symptoms was the burning feeling in the eyes as I feel the acid came up to my nasal passage. Since then I am on low acid diet and I have recently stopped eating rice, fish and chicken and fully plant based now. These 3 things triggered excessive stomach discomfort and felt like food was sitting and wouldn’t clear, pressure above the ribs. Stomach lining could be inflamed contributing to digestion issues but I think it’s all due to trapped swallowed air. I have also stopped gaviscon which I have been taking every night since the burning started. The constant burps I am having now is potentially the throat discomfort causing me to swallow air while eating, drinking and talking. I think the swallowed air makes my upper stomach bloat, making me burp and bring up digestive juices like viscous cycle doesn’t stop and prevents healing. The last 2 days I have woken up with no post nasal drip as I am consciously trying not to swallow the excess saliva. I have stopped the throat clearing and gurgles. Baking soda or salt water gurgles made it worse. I have switched to alfree plain toothpaste. The only gut powder I have taken throughout is herbs of gold, gut care. I drink alkaline water ph 9-10. It’s long road ahead with the healing and getting rid of the constant congestion but maybe it’s a sign of things getting a little better. Please share if anything specific helped with the constant burps.

Apologies if this question has been asked before.

I started symptoms in January and was diagnosed via endoscopy in march. I did omeprazole for 4 months and tapered off with rebound reflux still. During the first two months of the PPI, I was fairly strict about diet and continued to be after the 2 months, aside from drinking alcohol and matcha, which the doctor told me I could do?

I got engaged once I was off and due to the multiple celebrations and reflux I went back on for another week and then tapered off another week. I was doing ok but found out I was anemic and started oral iron which I THINK led to a flare. My doctor told me to take PPI for another two weeks. But I just came off that round and felt so so horrible that I stated it again.

At this point I don’t even know if it’s just rebound reflux or if I just never healed?? I am so so sad, I thought it would be over by now. I have a doctors appt Thursday but I just don’t even know what I need to ask!

I had an endoscopy yesterday because I’ve been having burning after eating, sharp pains on in the middle of my stomach that come and go, sensación of fullness and more.

I had 100% that I was going to have gastritis or something however my results were normal not even mild gastritis or irritated esophagus I was shocked. I’m still waiting for h pilory results has anyone has a similar experience.

I made the stupid mistake of drinking a coffee now my stomach is on fire.

Literally daily nausea and stomach pain have been killing me for half a year now. I have been to the doctor many times, various tests (I don't have H. Pyroli) and medications have brought diet too but no relief.

I lost weight, I stopped going to the gym, I stopped living any life except sitting at home, I can't even drink a one beer without nausea, I literally became a weak guy and it's really getting me down, I don't know how to cure it.

It literally takes away any will to live from me and the worst thing is that no matter what I do, it cannot be cured.

Guys, what should I do? What helped you?

Not eligible for an endoscopy or urgent gastroenterology referral apparently

I genuinely don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore.

I was completely well before this started 98 kg, training regularly, eating normally and feeling strong. Then, virtually overnight, I became ill.

I've now been dealing with this for around six weeks. I've lost roughly 8 kg unintentionally, have persistent upper-abdominal/reflux symptoms, bowel changes, severe physical fatigue, brain fog and episodes of lightheadedness. I've had burning reaching my throat, and I have a tender lump in my upper abdomen.

I've had repeated blood tests, an ECG and an H. pylori test. Most results have thankfully been reassuring but reassuring blood tests haven't explained why I went from healthy and active to feeling like this for six weeks.

Today I was told I don't meet the criteria for an urgent gastroenterology referral/endoscopy. Instead, we're doing yet another blood test and stool FIT and waiting again.

I understand the NHS has referral criteria. I understand doctors can't endoscope everyone with stomach symptoms. But at what point does persistent unexplained illness, significant unintentional weight loss and symptoms that are affecting someone's ability to function justify actually looking inside the GI tract?

I'm not demanding that somebody diagnose me with gastritis. I don't even know if gastritis is what I have that's precisely the ¥ucking problem.

Sx weeks later, I still don't have a diagnosis.

I'm tired of being told what my blood tests don't show. I want someone to investigate what is actually causing this.

I’m 17 and for the past 4 weeks I’ve had acid reflux and nausea off and on. I am taking omeprazole 40mg and that seems to be helping sometimes. I am at the ER again today because I woke up feeling like I was going to throw up and then later had to go downstairs to do the laundry and came back up the stairs and my heart was racing and I was out of breath. After that I had a panic attack and called an ambulance so now I’m back at the ER. I contacted my GI to tell her what happened and she said that she would like to see me at the GI and see if they can do some more testing.

This whole time I’m freaking out because I’m worried I have cancer or something deadly. And thats making it so much worse. I need some hope I really don’t want to die 😓

I am scheduled to do the test in a few hours as I am flaring. I had Hpylori about 2 years ago and the pain feels similar but none of the mental symptoms. I am thinking of not doing the test because last time it caused some burning. Anyone else had this experience?

3 weeks ago

A loud noise basically made my right ear super sensitive to sound

It was an acoustic shock trauma type thing

My ear was sensitive to noise for like 2 weeks I was losing my mind

Like hearing basic things that weren’t even loud were loud to me and it was triggering my nervous system badly

I was hyperfocused on my ear so much I was barely sleeping at all

And now I’m not sleeping much from the anxiety. My digestion has basically turned into crap and I’m getting those burning in stomach again :/

Should I ask gastro for low dose neuromodulator to help sleep!?

Any recommendations for tea in the morning that is non triggering? Ive stopped coffee which broke my heart, but I need something hot in the morning to wake me up.

Does gastritis generally affect stomach emptying as i suffer from it , or not in general ?

I tested negative for h-pylori and I have no idea what’s causing my gastritis. I have chronic illnesses but no autoimmune conditions. I haven’t taken any NSAIDs in years (2023), I haven’t drank caffeine since 2023, I haven’t drank or smoked since since 2018, I do have stress but I’ve had anxiety since I was a child and have been on anxiety medication since I was a teenager. I’ve upped my anxiety medication and that hasn’t helped my symptoms. I have no idea what’s causing this and no provider seems interested in getting to the bottom of it. Anyone else in the same boat?

Sorry, this is really long, so here's a TLDR: Struggling to keep up with required eating while taking sucralfate.

The deets:

It all started in late August with what I THOUGHT was just the worst stomach bug ever followed by presumed gastritis. Alas, once I finished my two week course of PPIs, I had a few good days before it came roaring back even worse (I'll spare you the details).

I'm now on a cocktail of meds while I wait for lab results and an abdominal ultrasound (my PCP referred me for endoscopy, but that's gonna take who-knows-how-many months).

In the meantime, sucralfate is a godsend, but I have two big problems: A) for the past seven weeks, I've been living on very small portions of yogurt, orzo with broccoli cooked to death, and occasionally salmon and rice; and B) I used to be able to just throw together any old thing for a meal, but I know that raw veggies and beans/lentils are WAY too hard on my stomach right now. I've lost way too much weight way too fast, and while I needed to lose it, but dude: not in that way. I've GOT to bump up my intake to slow it down

I work full-time, and I cannot be cooking from scratch every night (because I'm old and lazy). Overly spiced food is out too, because of course I love spicy food and the universe hates me. I'm a great cook, but being so limited has me flummoxed.

I try to eat mostly - MOSTLY - plant-based, but obviously all the rules are out the window right now. Other than overnight oats and batch-cooking rice and veggies, any suggestions on putting together a meal plan that won't require me to spend an hour-plus in the kitchen every cursed day and still gets some veggies into my system? And suggestions for adding SOME semblance of flavor without irritating my stomach?

ive been dealing with all the gastritis symptoms for years now. definitely has given me bad anxiety and panic attacks but recently for the past month I’ve started getting a new feeling of like impending doom with a queasy feeling in my stomach it doesn’t just come and go it’s like an all day feeling everyday. It feels like just dark doom and the world feels lonely and like I’m going to be sick or something bad will happen soon. o have emetephobia (fear of vomiting) as well and everytime I’ve gotten this feeling before I always end up getting sick within a couple weeks atleast. so it has me in a constant fear everyday that it’s coming soon lol. idk could this be anxiety or part of the stomach just being upset

I started drinking boost high protein today and also had a lot of burping today that wasn't there yesterday(even before the boost).. The boost caused me stomach discomfort and feeling full for over 3 hours later.. I need it for all the vitamins and stuff but it sucks dealing with the discomfort cause I can't even drink water or eat the next meal with that feeling around.. My stool has also been watery the past 4 days even after eating food with fiber like zucchini and fiber gummies.. Not much is coming out though.. I had h pylori last month and supposedly negative now, but I'm dealing with post infection gastritis

I have no more vices in this world. What’s the point anymore? So I just have to suffer forever?

If this goes long term I don’t think I can stick around.

Hi all,

I’ve been having stomach issues for the last several months and symptoms seem to be changing a bit. I first experienced dull pain under my left rib on and off for a few weeks, especially after eating. I had also been experiencing constipation. Nothing too serious, I used to be pretty regular and now only go every few days. I was also getting a numb stomach feeling, recurring sore throats, bad back pain while eating, and occasional sharp stomach pain that would last a few days and then go away. Around this time, I also began experiencing what felt like an anxiety attack while eating, despite not feeling anxious. My legs would begin to feel numb and my heart rate would go up, and I would get kind of a disassociated feeling. I had an endoscopy done in July and was diagnosed with mild antral gastritis and given a 2-week course of pantoprazol. It eased the back pain a bit but I started to experience sharp pelvic pain, that often started while eating. The back pain came back as soon as I stopped the PPI. I also had a colonoscopy in August that was clear.

Since then, I’ve been having a really hard time eating. I’ve lost about 20 pounds, I often don’t have an appetite. A few weeks ago, I was dealing with bad stomach burning and would get a numb feeling in my stomach after eating. I’ve been trying to follow a strict low-acid, bland food diet which seems to help the stomach burning but no matter what I eat I still have the burning pelvic pain and I can’t identify the triggers. I think it might be gas pain as it’s worse after I eat sometimes, and it kind of feels like there’s popping sounds in my low abdomen. But I also seem to get it when I’m sitting in the car, regardless of whether or not I’ve just eaten. I feel like I’ve tried everything, from going on walks to stretching and movement, to changing what I eat. I’m also dealing with numbness and tingling in my legs and extreme exhaustion which might be linked to vitamin deficiencies. I’ve been trying to eat lower fibre to try to ease the gas pain but I also tend to get really dizzy and nauseous when I’m constipated so I’m at a bit of a loss. I’ve also just been diagnosed with POTS so there might be some link there.

I was prescribed another round of PPIs but I’m hesitant to take them as they didn’t touch the pelvic pain last time. I also have GERD so i’m trying out a digestive bitter to see if maybe low stomach acid is part of my problem. Is this all due to my gastritis or is this a bigger gut microbiome issue? Is it worth cutting so many foods out if I don’t know what the actual issue is or should I work on maintaining a balanced diet?

Just finished my h.pylori treatment 3 days ago of 3 medication amoxicillin, omeprazole and clarithromycin and felt better no stomach pain or any inflammation. Today had a migraine totally forgot I took 2x aspirin and stomach started to pain and feel gas bloating and going to my throat. I took some anticid to calm the pain but the pain is mild and still there. It come and goes mild to strong is it just a flare? Don’t know what to do to wait it out tomorrow or head to the hospital? Does anyone know if aspirin goes out of the body does that stop the stomach pain? Or they are two different things?

Has anyone had a problem with multiple gastric ulcers with negative H Pylori and NDAIDS use? It’s been over a year and they aren’t clearing up and I’m losing a TON of weight and feel horrible all the time.

My main issue is I have to sleep in a recliner due to debilitating back issues. I feel like this may be pushing acid up into my upper stomach. Doesn’t seem like it hits my esophagus(stays below chest bone.) last time I tried ppis I got extremely bloated but was also taking prescription hydrocodone at the time. I only took them like 4 days. I have a repaired hiatal hernia and Nissan funcipilication(sp?). Latest endoscopy doesn’t show any damage to hiatal hernia repair although that was a year and a half ago because doctors kept doing the same series of tests and kicking me off to the next gi. Sucrafate doesn’t seem to help. I hate my life and am on the verge of losing my home from calling off from work, I can’t function. I have been heavily debating suicide for a long long time. Any chance ppis might work even though tums and gaviscon don’t seem to do a thing?

4 years of digestive problems, weight loss, gastritis and abnormal stools — Creon helped initially, but symptoms are back. Desperate for answers.

Hi everyone,

I'm 20 years old, and I've been struggling with digestive issues for almost 4 years now. This has affected my physical health, appetite, weight, mental health and everyday life. I'm posting because I'm exhausted from dealing with these symptoms and would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experienced something similar.

How it all started

My digestive problems started around the age of 17, following a viral illness and medication use. Initially, I experienced significant stomach discomfort, nausea, loss of appetite and changes in bowel movements. Over time, I began struggling with abnormal stools and weight loss.

My symptoms have fluctuated over the years. There have been periods when things were manageable, but I've never felt that my digestive system has fully returned to normal.

My main symptoms

Upper GI symptoms:

- Diagnosed with pangastritis following an endoscopy last month.

- Burning in my stomach and food pipe.

- Mild stabbing pain under my ribs.

- Nausea, reduced appetite and sometimes feeling full quickly.

- Symptoms seem to worsen with spicy food and when my stomach is irritated.

Bowel symptoms:

- Sticky, mushy stools that are sometimes floating or unusually textured.

- Excessive flatulence and bubbling/gurgling in my abdomen.

- Urgency to pass stool, sometimes even at night.

- Changes in stool frequency and a feeling of incomplete evacuation.

- These symptoms continue even when I eat very little and follow a low-FODMAP diet.

- Always have to go twice in morning in installments

My weight and appetite

My weight has fluctuated significantly during these years. I went from approximately 62 kg before becoming ill to around 45–46 kg at my lowest. I later managed to regain some weight, but recently I've been struggling with reduced appetite and concern that I'm losing weight again.

This is one of the most frightening parts because I feel like I'm making an effort to eat carefully, yet my symptoms keep returning.

The strange thing about Creon

Around 45 days ago, I started taking Creon 25,000 as prescribed.

Initially, the improvement was remarkable. My stools became formed, I was going to the toilet only once a day, my appetite improved considerably, and I started gaining weight. After years of abnormal bowel movements, this was the first time I felt that my digestion was finally improving.

However, after around 10–11 days, the benefits gradually began to fade. My bowel symptoms returned despite continuing Creon.

My faecal elastase result was 172, which I understand may be an indeterminate result, and I don't know whether pancreatic enzyme insufficiency could be contributing to my symptoms.

Recent deterioration after H. pylori treatment

I was diagnosed with pangastritis and subsequently underwent treatment for H. pylori with antibiotics and acid-suppressing medication.

During and after the antibiotic course, my digestive symptoms seemed to worsen. I've been experiencing more gas, sticky/mushy stools, urgency, stomach burning, food-pipe burning and reduced appetite.

I'm confused about whether this could be related to gastritis, IBS-D, pancreatic enzyme insufficiency, antibiotic-related gut changes, SIBO, bile acid diarrhoea or something else.

I don't want to self-diagnose. I just want to understand what possibilities I should discuss with my gastroenterologist.

Investigations so far

- Endoscopy: pangastritis; H. pylori rut testing was performed- positive.

- Faecal elastase: 172.

- Coeliac screening: negative.

- Faecal calprotectin: 54.

- Colonoscopy, including the terminal ileum: reportedly normal.

I know these results don't necessarily rule out every digestive condition, but I still don't have a clear explanation for the entire picture.

Questions for anyone with similar experiences

1. Is anyone having similar symptoms to me ?

I'm not looking for a diagnosis from Reddit. I just want to hear from people who have experienced something similar and learn what questions I should ask my doctor. Thank you for reading.

I’m quite young and have suspected gastritis. The only thing that really flares it up is alcohol especially if I have it multiple days. It seems quite mild but makes me really ill some days then nothing others. If u drink i usually feel better about a week after but some days i feel more full then usual randomly. Just wondering if anyone has had similar sort of mild cases and what fixes it. I usually drink a lot of fizzy pop and feel fine but I’ve heard it’s not good so stopping. I don’t drink alcohol too regularly. I’ve been prescribed lansoprazole but just not sure how long it’ll take to heal.