Gastritis - Constant severe stomach pain

Hi Jenny,

I am feeling the same right now. I was told by my doctor that I have gastritis and gave my prescription Lansoprazole Actavis 30 mg once daily for 4 weeks. I am taking the prescription religiously 30/60 before meal. But pain in my stomach never go away and it is more painful at night tine. I am so sore.

What to do when it flares up especially at the middle of the night? Please advise.

Hi Jenny , I was wondering if there has been anymore developments with your stomach. I have been having severe pains in mine and find it difficult to breathe. I've put it down to anxiety as well . I feel everything is bruised inside. My back and ribs are sore too. Doctors say it's IBS but I feel it's something else. I've taken xanax to see if it will calm my stomach down but no joy I'm also on pantoprazole 40mg , but I don't feel any better. It is draining and I feel tired all of the time. Please let me know if anything worked or helped you.

Thanks ,

Jenny

Hi Jenny. I wanted to see

If you had figured out what you had? I have the same symptoms for 3 years!!! It's ruining my life. Doctors say I have nothing. But it's uncomfortable pain. Please let me know any information

You have learned.

Dear fellow sufferer,

I feel your sorrow and I would just love to share because I was in the same shoes and thought my life was ending so i would love to help.

What you are experiencing and children are experiencing are parasite infestation, small harmful organisms living in your stomach. This could be one type, or several types of parasites wreaking stomach issues.

Based on the symptoms you desribed, the attack sounds like a parasite called h.pylori. which is sometimes difficult to detect, this bacteria lives in your stomach lining and destroys it sapping you from iron and continuing to make all sorts of symptoms. If not treated eventually will lead to stomach cancer at old age. In younger ages, you may develop several ulcers and heal constantly from time to time, so don't panick just yet, because its also curable. Your body will build antigen to fight this parasite, but they will have a fight or flight mode that will hide their precence by hiding under sugar.

My recommendation go to a specialist for parasites who can do a full stool analysis. Parasitology is not that expensive. I would only do this route as it will be more accurate and lease inasive. You may also do a breath test or blood test if you want which are the least expensive.

For now eat a strict vegetarian diet, green tea, manuka honey. But you may eat a steak once in a while to up your protein, as h.pylori loves stealing your protein.

Avoid sugar, which they will use to grow and camouflage from tests. Spicy, greasy, acidic and fried foods will rile them up causing hyper activity. Antacids may also help. You may have to go this diet for a year, until your whole family is treated.

General doctors may not know what's wrong with you, the human body is very complex and doctors may oversee a lot of things, take the doctors advice but trust your own body too. This is your life and in order to be happy you have to get as many second opinions as you can afford. These bugs also sap your seratonin which makes you depressed. So its all worth it to find out whats wrong.

Good luck and i hope this cures you.

I literally was just diagnosed with a "bacterial overgrowth" in my small intestine. This was done by having a breath test, which was super easy to do. I've been sick since October 2016. It's been a nightmare of gut pain every day, especially since they couldn't find any h-pylori in my stomach after my endoscopy in December. But due to my symptoms they scheduled the test and it looks like they've been hiding in my intestines. I'm wondering if that's normal? Anyways they're putting me on biaxin for two weeks. I can't wait to heal up, and I'm especially happy to know I'm not crazy! Keep following up with your doctors folks-no matter how long you've been sick or how bleak your pain makes your situation seem. May we all start to feel better soon!

Hi Jenny your symptoms are very much like mine although I get very bad acid reflux too I was in a&he a couple of nights due to the pain in my stomach I had an appointment with a specialist the following day so the a&be department let me go so I could go to the appointment when I went there and described my symptoms they said it could be an ulcer or inflammation due to the amount of medication I take I am having an endoscopy done this Monday coming so hopefully I will get the results the same day I have not long had my dinner and my stomach is in so much pain I feel for you I really do I think your docter should have sent you for further investigations if you have got a diagnosis could you please let me know out of interest and if you haven't I will tell you my results after my camera too all the best to you just realised your post was over a year ago

My doctor prescribe me rantidine, you could try that, he said take it for two weeks twice a day half an hour before eating, not sure if that's helpful but it's worth a try.

I have been suffering so bad get 3 hours sleep then the pain comes on so strong in my abdominal it feels deep inside if I lay on tummy it radiates through to back laying on my side hurts I breath out hard and I can feel my sides hurting sometimes I go poo it feels better I've been on nexium 6 years for feeling acid had to sleep sitting up 6 years recently stopped nexium for barium was ok but 2 weeks later I'm in agony in my abdominal got a small amount of blood in poo protein in wee borderline irritable bowel I've had too lots of antibiotics recently and nothing have helped I've had camera down throats over and over and they found mild gastritis then nothing but nexium gave heart palpertations sweats in night and still pain im getting to point I want to die but I have to young children

Had no idea how many people have all my symptoms.  I am going to try the acidophilus plus you mentioned.  I have had this crummy pain since last August.  Had the Xrays, ultrasound, CT abdominal scan.  Finally I had a surgeon go in, laparoscopicly and look around.  NOTHING!  My gut is so sore, almost feels numb!  Hard to ride in the car because i feel all the bumps.  Thanks for your post.  Very helpful.  Misery loves company.

 

Hi Jenny my name is Jessica and I've been going through what you've been going through for almost 3 years when I first started I was about 250 lb and now I'm about 140 lb would mind first started and started with a lump in the very top of my stomach that made me get very nauseous and feel like I had to poop and it happened every single day all day long I threw up everything I was eating couldn't keep anything down and when I went to the hospital all they do was drug me out and I'd wake up 8 hours later mad because the whole day was gone this happened for maybe two years before I went online and tried to find other people who are going through the same thing that I was going through I finally found a form on gastritis that implemented some of the things that you should be eating in the things that you should stay away from and would that last I compiled a diet that worked for me basically I don't know if you guys have those smart one meals at Kroger's or the Weight Watcher meals but basically I would eat two of those a day I would have a banana and yogurt in the morning and then fill in my snack times with fruits and vegetables and that seemed to work with me I've actually broken my diet and my symptoms are starting to come back almost every day so I believe the diet really does help and I think if you want to start feeling better it starts with going on a diet it sucks but that's the solution to this problem.

Demand a ulta sound or mri, ct scan, my doctors fobed me of for years saying i had reflux and gave me lanzrapol not they done any good, i had exact same syptoms as you, finaly got a ultra sound done they showed gal-bladder stones, went for a camera and they removed some stones from my bile duct, the very next morning rushed back into hospital diagnosed with pancreatitius, stayed in hospital for week then they removed my gal bladder but again got panreatitus, then said i sycst on the pancreas sent home after few weeks now been for anohter ct scan and now awaiting the resluts  regarding the sycsts to see what is happenign with them, but i must say i do not get any pain for now since the removal, I do get a cramp that lasts for about 30 seconds thats it tho i can live with that  

WOW IM SO RELIEVED TO SEE OTHERS I CAN RELATE TOO IVE BEEN SO MISERABLE AND BREAKING DOWN CRYING IVE BEEN DEALING WITH THE SAME THING FOR A YEAR NOW THIS YEAR HAS GOTTEN WORST THE PAIN AND BURNING NAUSEOUS VOMITING ALWAYS FEELING SICK NOW I HAVE SHOOTING PAINS IN MY LEGS AND ARMS  CHEST PAINS AND LOWER BACK PAIN ON MY RIGHT SIDE SOMETIMES IVE BEEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER HOSPITAL DOCTORS AFTER DOCTORS IVE HAD NUMEROUS OF TEST DONE ENDO AND COLON CAT SCANS BLOOD WORK X RAYS AND NOTHING IM ONLY 30 AND THEY KEEP GIVING ME DIFFERENT MEDS TO TRY LIKE IM A GENIE PIG I JUST WANT MY LIFE BACK I HATE THIS HAS ANYBODY FOUND ANYTHING OUT YET MY LOWER INTESTINE WAS SWOLLEN AND THEY DIDNT ELABORATE ON IT IS THAT BAD ?