Hi: I am glad I have found you all. I have had gastritis and IBS for years and have not gotten much help. Most of the time I am constipated but last year and this year, after taking some really strong pro-biotics I have gone into horrible diarrhea. It is just water. I finally remembered the last bout and how I went to a new gastro doc and he told me to stop eating dairy and stop taking immodium and it went away! It still seems as if it was at its end anyway but I realize that I have been eating dairy which I have been eating since last year. Only now it is causing the diarrhea. Then again maybe it caused the constipation over the years before.
I also have this pain that starts up by my rib cage and will continue down my stomach as if it a ball of food. I think though it is a ball of gas because if I take baking soda and belch it feels somewhat better.
The first time I had a bout of this I was in high school and I remember crawling on the floor in pain. My parents took me to hospital but all they did was give me an ant-acid to drink and sent me home. I was still in pain. Then it would happen only once a year or so. And then some doctor prescribed a really high dose of Ibupropen because I had a problem with my back and I took that suff for one day and the next day I was in pain and it has been kind of chronic since then. I don't touch those OCT drugs anymore and depend on opiates even though they cause problems too. I don't care. I can't stand the pain.