How I cured my gastritis

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Hello , ines just wondering how do you prepare your oatmeal. It has to be watery or a little bit jelly that oatmeal gives when we cook. I been feeling better, thank to your recomendations. Please it will be a good help. I make my oatmeal watery it is good but i want to make sure is good like this or jelly. During your diet how was. I lost 30 pounds im trying to keep but it not easy... What do you recommend. It will be nice your help. Thank you in advance

I don't think it matters how it is as long as it is cooked. I just boil 1/2 cup of oatmeal flakes with one cup of water and a pinch of salt, stir then let it rest for 5-10 minutes or so. Do whatever feels good to you.

I followed the instruction on the package

My schedule was similar to yours, sometimes I would change it a little bit if I was hungry earlier, following my feelings of hunger.

Thank you very much

... The weight is very hard to keep as a man hopefully i will get better... I have no pain i have just to be Patience... I wish i knew how to do the diet before...

I just read that high levels of fluoride are damaging to the stomach lining. If your tap water has a fluoride content larger than 0.7 mg/liter (like here in NYC where they add fluoride to the tap water), it might be good to drink bottled water until you feel better.

Hi Ines, I've been following your posts for 1.5 years now and it's been a great help! I had Hpylori induced gastritis and LPR at the end of 2014. The Hpylori has gone and I've healed for the most part but not 100%. I can eat most foods now etc etc. But I still do have a few LPR symptoms (I guess the gastritis is under control as I don't have any stomach pain or burning etc but I do burp a lot). I know you were pregnant recently. We want to plan for kids now. Can I ask how was your experience with LPR, gastritis and pregnancy? Did it get worse?

Hi sirivinay

I also follow ines recommendations. However i still think feel the same. Like how much water do you usually drink. Do you drink when you feel thirsty or try to drink as much as you can. Or try to drink at least a certain amount of water.. Everyday. I dont know if im doing right as i try to drink 5 glasses everyday. When i wake up i drink one glasse before breakfast 40 minutes then one hour later after my breakfast i try to drink 2 glasses up to lunch. After lunch i drink 3 glsses. Then my snack, and whe n i get home, i also drink 4 onzes until i prepare my dinner. Then one hour before bed another 4 onzes. Is like having 7 glasses everyday. I dont feel thirsty is just i keep hydrated. Do you think im doing good or just forcing my stomach to much work.... Please help. Thank you

Hi Henri,

I am so sorry to hear about your health issues. About water, I think you should drink atleast 8 (8 ounce) glasses of water everyday. That's the ideal amount I believe. I drink close to 10. 2 glasses as soon as I wake up (with zantac), 3 glasses between breakfast and lunch. I don't drink them continuously, as that would make me burp. I drink 1 glass 1.5 hours after breakfast and the other 2 glasses in another half an hour. I drink another 3 glasses between lunch and snack. 1 glass 2 hours post dinner

It got posted automatically! 1.5 glasses post dinner and if I feel thirsty before bed I sip 2 ounces slowly, but I would rather not drink water before sleeping.

Dont worry. Stay posting and focus on diet and healing. You will surely feel better with time. I can say this from my own experience!

Thank you so much... I just try to keep hydrate... And not force my stomach... With the dexiland is hard. As i have to always check how much i eat in order to have space for water.... Like this i still keep losing weight.. Not easy to keep up.. I just keep eating healthy.. Thank you for your recommendations

You are welcome! I managed to put on 20 lbs in 1.5 years (that I needed to). This disease is all about patience!

Hi Sirivinay,

My stomach was fine when I became pregnant and the pregnancy went well overall. I got a bit of nausea the first trimester but I believe this is common. The cravings were a bit hard to manage at times but I don't remember them having long term consequences. And the last trimester I had some LPR, but it is due to the baby pushing on the stomach. It went away after delivery. Overall I had a very good pregnancy!

Prenatal yoga helped a lot too with back pain etc, I totally recommend it!

Awesome! Thank you ines. That makes me feel positive I have an appointment with the gastro next month, just to see if I've healed, before getting pregnant. For now, as long as I am careful with diet I can manage, and zantac helps better than ppi if needed. But the only irritating thing is that I'm not 100% fine, if you know what I mean. My symptoms have minimized a lot, but it's never fully gone. Ugghhh. Anyway I am ready to bite the bullet if I get pregnant, coz I want kids! Do you still follow the LPR diet or can you eat anything now?

I follow the LPR diet at home but if I go to the restaurant once in a while I am usually fine so that is progress (I am careful at the restaurant though but they often make mistake which I am able to handle now most of the time). Also sometimes at home I eat small amounts of spices, tomatoes, yoghourt, peaches, mangoes, berries, pickled carrots, a square of chocolate and it is all fine. I just can't overdo it and if I feel the slightest irritation I go back on a strict diet for a few days.

I keep wondering if the added fluoride in the tap water has a bad effect on my stomach. As a precaution I drink bottled water now. I have been feeling good lately but I don't know if it is related. It is probably just months/years of a non-irritating diet that builds up progress.

Also my doctor found out that my iron levels were in the normal range but on the low side and she gave me iron supplements. Apparently it is not uncommon to have iron levels low with low stomach acid. With the iron supplements I have much more energy! I can feel they are a bit tough on the stomach but thankfully my stomach can handle it now.

If you are planning to get pregnant soon, ask your obgyn for a good prenatal vitamins to build reserves for the baby and get started now! I really liked citra-natal but vital-one were good too (by prescription).

I meant get started now with the prenatal vitamins ;-)

It is good to start in advance.

Hi Ines.  I have gastritis (verified by endoscopy) and reflux, too. I completely eliminated tap water for almost two years.  I was buying reverse osmosis water from my local co-op, and that was the only water I drank during that period.  It didn't help one bit.  After much experimentation over the past four years, I've found that my symptoms (stomach burning and reflux) are almost nonexistent if I stick to a low-fat diet. I eat lots of protein (poultry and fish) and plenty of starch, fruits and veggies (cooked). It's also low acid -- bananas and melons are the only fruits I eat (though I do have a small amount of blueberries mixed with my oatmeal). And it's low FODMAP. I don't take any medication. The only supplement I take is a probiotic -- it seems to have helped quite a bit. If I try to add olive oil back to my foods, I begin experiencing stomach burning within a couple of days.  So I've given it up.  I'm feeling so much better than before.  I began drinking tap water again back in December.  Still no problems.  So for me, chlorine has no effect.  I'm convinced it was some kind of GI infection that caused this.  And I think I've accepted that this is probably a life-long condition.  My ex-wife has the same condition.  We both picked it up around the same time.  Several months before our first symptoms, we both had a bad case of stomach flu -- severe vomiting.  It was awful.  So perhaps that was the cause.  I wish you all the best.

Thanks Scott! That is good to know about the water!

You did not have h pylori, did you?

It is strange that both you and your wife got this after having stomach flu, where did you catch the stomach flu?

Do you think it is due to some sort of unknown bacteria/virus?

Or do you think it could be an auto-immune condition triggered by the virus that gave you the stomach flu?

Do you have other auto-immune problems?

I am still wondering what caused my gastritis, why I was fine and all of a sudden I get all these problems. For me too it seems to be a life long condition even though it seems to become better, at an extremely slow pace but still, I tolerate more things than before.

Hi Inez.

After my symptoms first started, I got tested for h pylori and it was negative.  But then a year or so later I was tested again and this time it was right on the border of being positive.  So my doctor gave me the standard triple antibiotic therapy.  Boy did that suck -- I felt so tired and just not well while taking those.  And the end result was no benefit whatsoever.  It wasn't until I had stayed on a low-fat, low-acid, low-FODMAP diet for a month or so, and began that probiotic supplement,  that I realized my symptoms were almost completely gone.  I also eat every three hours -- I've found that if I go to long without eating, that can sometimes cause an acid stomach or reflux.  And I wait three hours after my last meal before I lie down.

Yeah, I can't be sure that we both got this problem from that bout of stomach flu.  But it seems like a possibility.  I don't know what else could explain it.  My ex-wife contracted the illness at a Christmas party.  Probably something she ate.  Then I got it a day or two later.  But it was several months after that before I began to notice the first symptoms of LPR -- and I was eating a very high-fat, low-carb diet at the time.  My wife's LPR symptoms began several months after mine (she wasn't on a high-fat diet -- she was eating the same way she always has).  So her symptoms probably began a year or more after that infection.  So maybe it wasn't the cause.  Neither she nor I suffer from any autoimmune diseases.

One other possibility -- when I first began noticing symptoms, I was eating sauerkraut every day (along with my high-fat diet).  And my ex-wife was eating it, too.  So could it have contained some kind of bad bacteria?  That's possible.

There could be so many possibilities.  I'm sure I'll never figure it out.  But I know that my diet (and probiotic) helps tremendously, so that's comforting.  I'm glad that your diet helps you, too.  

I would think sauerkraut is good for you if prepared correctly. They talk about it in the documentary "cooked", the episode about bacteria. Aparently fermented foods likes pickes and sauerkraut are full of lactobacillius and other good bacteria that figths the bad bacteria.

I just saw in the NYT a new article  called "educate your immune system". They compare two or three populations, one of them in rural Russia. Apparently the population in rural Russia develops less auto-immune problems (type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, ...) and the only difference they found was that people there drink their water from a well. Apparently the development of autoimmune problems in the other countries studied follows a disturbance in the microbiome. I wonder if  all the chlorine/fluoride we drink in tap water has a bad effect on our microbiome and if that would explain the difference. They think the difference might be due to the lack of exposure to all sorts of germs early in life.

To anyone with stomach lining gastritis or infection in order to maintain a good bacteria in the gut use 2-3 Tbls of 😄Apple Cider Vinegar in a glass of water with a tsp of honey. Can be taken after the meal. If it is irritating cut the amount of vinegar and see if it helps. I drink it each day and feel better. Raw ACV is best.

"Stopped ACV with water in the morning and Kefir yogurt. Made my stomach feel better."

"I take a little baking soda in water for acid reflux. "

"Too many foods are acid but tomatoes can be cooked to remove a lot of it. "

Your earlier posts seem to be against adding acid to your stomach, your post today seems to support adding acid to your stomach, could you let us know what experience made you change?