It has been 7 hours since my last meal and I still feel extremely full. My stomach looks enlarged and feels heavy. When I burp I can taste food. It's so uncomfortable I can't sleep. I feel nauseated. I just had a bowel movement but it has not eased much. Does this sound like gastritis? Does anyone else experience these symptoms with gastritis? I was on Omeprazole (PPI) to help reduce stomach acid but my supply recently finished. I then switched to a milder tablet Tagamet (h2 blocker). I think I need to go back on the PPI which was stronger and more effective. I thought my stomach would have been healed by now but I guess I was wrong. Now I'm starting to wonder if I have something else like gastroparesis or hiatal hernia. We had a birthday dinner for my uncle and right after was when the bloating started. I would really like to be able to celebrate and enjoy meals with my family without suffering these effects. I've been going through this for over a year and I'm desperately seeking a solution. Please help. Give me some advice. Thanks.
Have you had an endoscopy at all? If not I would definitely suggest you get one as it’s the only way to diagnose any of the issues you listed. Bloating can come from so many different things and also keep a good diary and try to stay away from food that makes you feel worse this will help tremendously.
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Hi Farah
A lot of things can cause this, but yes, it is a symptom of Gastritis, the bloating. I’ve got chronic Gastritis, I’m at my wits end with the full stomach feeling and bloating. I’ve recently lost weight, yet my stomach is bigger due to the bloating. 😕
I would go back to GI Doctor. They scoped me and found my hiatal hernia. I can only eat very small meals, maybe 6 bites. I usually eat once per day, usually a soup or mashed potatoes. For a snack, maybe 6 goldfish crackers. I am also on PPI.
Tell your Dr. What's going on and see if he/she can help.
I find that if I put a spoon of baking soda in a glass of water, stir and add ice. It neutralizes the acid in your tummy, basic chemistry. It will allow the vomit to taste better or settle your stomachache.
Keep me posted.
Hi, you ate something your body can’t handle - maybe too fatty, too much salt etc. or you ate too much too fast.
And you can’t heal your body with those medications - you need to change your diet and give your body the right food to heal. As a rule of thumb - eat every that is not processed then you are fine (so cut out man made food as much as possible )
And if the doc didn’t test it, be careful with thinking you have too much stomach acid - you will have the same symptoms with hiatal hernia or low stomach acid.
If you’re not getting better, ask for an endoscopy.
No, I have not done an endoscopy. I'm not even sure if it's done (or done properly) where I live. I may have to go overseas for that. I kind of self-diagnosed the gastritis because my symptoms matched the description. My doctor agreed and put me on omeprazole which helped, but when i came off it, problems returned. Maybe I came off it too early, before my stomach could heal properly. I made diet and lifestyle changes but the problems just wont go away fully.
I think I have a lot of gas in my stomach. I'll try some GasX and ginger tea.
Same with me!! I'm also at my wits end. Been suffering for over a year now and it's been rough. I too have lost weight but my stomach looks big. Have you done tests? What treatment are you on? Can you suggest some foods that are gentle on the stomach?
Thanks for your response. I'm sorry to hear you have to eat like that. Sounds rough. How is a hiatal hernia cured? Do you need surgery? What PPI are you on and does it help?
I'm definitely going back to my doctor and get more tests done.
Thanks for the tip on the baking soda. I have a pretty good antacid that works. It usually helps to settle my upset stomach, so I don't have to throw up. The last time I threw up (about a year and 1 month ago) i remember the taste was horrible. Extremely acidic. Since then I've been taking this antacid. I was doing pretty well when I was on omeprazole, but since I came off, problems returned - bloating, gas, upset stomach...and every time my stomach gets upset I feel the urge to have a bowel movement and sometimes it's soft and runny. I feel better today though I don't have much of an appetite.
Keep me posted on your situation too.
I do have a diary. I've found that I've gotten sick when I ate spicy food, drank coffee, over-ate or skipped a meal...so I avoid those things.
Please suggest some foods that would be good for me.
I need to have an endoscopy but I may need to go overseas to get it done properly.
Too much bloating recently, since I came off the omeprazole. I'm going back to my doctor and will inquire about the endoscopy. I've heard it's not done properly in my country. I may have to go overseas for it. Did you have one? Did you feel anything during the procedure?
I’ve had an endoscopy, it revealed inflammation of the stomach (Gastritis) and small bowel. I didn’t feel a thing with the endoscopy. They put me on proton pump inhibitors, I was on them for 2 years, on and off, but they made me worse. The best foods to eat are plant foods, lots of vegetables with olive oil, wild rice, fruit, try to eat fermented foods such as kimchi and sauerkraut. Try not to eat acidic foods such as meat as it takes between 7/8 hours for the stomach to digest it, if you have to eat meat, try to eat organic meat that is from grass fed cows.
I didn’t have a good experience with it at all. I felt the tube going down even under sedation and felt panic although I couldn’t react because of the medication. This upset me I developed severe depression within 24 hrs which lasted two weeks, cleared up and on the third week came back. I react this way to any procedure involving sedation and medications prescribed by my GP often affect me badly. I am hyper sensitive to anything medical and have had to avoid getting treatment for previous injuries I have had and so they didn’t heal properly.
However, everyone’s experience is different and some cope well with endoscopies. I have autism which causes me to be hypersensitive or sometimes under sensitive. My mum also had these medical sensitvities too. My metabolism is just not very strong when I need any treatment.
The other option is a throat spray which is better if you can’t cope with sedation. I thought I was going to get the spray instead and so I saw no risk to me in having the procedure. I got a shock when I heard I was getting sedation. I kidded myself on that it wouldn’t be as bad as general anaesthesia because you are awake although drowsy. I soon realised that twilight sedation was even worse at least for me,
I don’t know what country you’re in. I’m in the US and had an awesome experience the sedation was great lol I didn’t remember a thing and woke up right after they finished and was completely alert. After the procedure tho is uncomfortable I was really bloated and had to pass had a ton! I burped a lot after too but that because they have to fill your tummy with air in order to look at it properly.
Hi gillian, did you ever get back pain with your gastritis?
Yes Heather, lower, middle and upper back pain between shoulder blades, in fact I had pain everywhere, upper right, left quadrant, chest pains as well. 😕
I’m having the same exact pains! I’m so glad I’m not alone I was just diagnosed with gastritis