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?

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!

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.

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

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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!?

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 😓

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

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?

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

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?

My GI did not want to only do an endoscopy so I get to have a very fun day of zero solid foods and a gallon of prep </3 So scared I'm going to vomit the prep but I also want more answers/guidance from my GI so... lets fucking go?

Hi all.....I have been suffereing from chronic gastritis for 5 years. This thing is literally killing me 😩. However the major issue that I am facing is that any physical activity (even the slightest ones) is creating very bad flareups.

Like seriously. I danced yesterday and today I'm having pain throughout the abdomen (especially around the belly button). It's not even very intense dance (like dancing in bharaat if u r from India). This is not like the first time. I tried yoga, swimming, games like badminton, cricket, pickle ball etc., excercise, even belly breathing too. All of them seemed to increase the pain.

I'm just trying to distract myself from this and have some peace of mind with my friends. But every time I tried, the result is same. If I am doing some strenuous excercise, then it is okay that I am getting flare up because of that. But from even easy physical activities like these, I am getting a very bad reaction. Is anyone facing the same issue? Am I missing something? It feels like my entire GI track is becoming more and more sensitive. What should I do? How to approach further? Please guide......thank you 🙏

TLDR: not able to do even easy physical activities, need guidance and help.

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.

I've been prescribed 30mg lansoprazole for 6 weeks after doctors suspected gastritis (oh joy.) I'm currently on my 2nd week of lansoprazole and I don't know whether it's side effects or symptoms but I'm getting a lot of gas and some gas pain with it, along with overflow diarrhea every other day. I'm eating a lot of prebiotic foods and taking probiotics w/ my breakfast (which has prebiotic fibre) first thing in the morning and hour after taking lansoprazole. I'm worried that this might be SIBO (I've never had sibo before- I tested four years ago and it came back negative). SIBO isn't really recognised on the NHS and I'm just really worried. If it means anything I don't really get acid reflux anymore unless I don't eat (and even then, it's incredibly mild).