I get occasional bouts of gastritis....had an endoscopy a few years ago which revealed inflammation in the neck of my stomach. I have GERD and a large hiatus hernia. If I’m really anxious and stressed, it flares up. Things are really stressful just now and I’m hyper anxious. I was also really ill over the holidays with flu which gave me awful diarrhoea. I’m now really constipated and have gastritis and I’m pretty miserable. However, I saw my GP yesterday and I’ve to start back on my Laxido, very gradually, to get my bowel moving more efficiently.
But the thing is, I’m super anxious and wondering why I have nausea. Is that normal for constipation and with gastritis? It’s a viscous circle - anxiety makes me nauseous and then I set off my guts 🙄🙄. Just need some understanding and reassurance right now, if anyone is out there. Xxxx
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Can you get help with your anxiety if that is a trigger for you? My OH had gastritis, diagnosed by endoscopy. Prior to treatment, he would just randomly vomit, with no prior warning. Obviously this was difficult to manage. Anyway, endoscopy and colonoscopy at the same time (spit roast if you will), revealed gastritis and polyps. Polyps were getting in the way of a valve closing, gastritis lesions in stomach were found. Polyps removed, Lanzoprazole for gastritis, all fine again.
I have a complicated history with Generalised Anxiety Disorder, OCD, depression and Complex PTSD 😕. I have had some talking therapy, but as I live in Scotland, each time i need Community Mental Health, I need to sit on a 12 month waiting list.
My husband is Mr Rational and has, over our 23 year marriage, become utterly impatient and horrible. So I’m living with no support.
It’s all a mess and there’s little I can do. I don’t work because I chose to be a stay-at - home mum to our two girls. But come September, my youngest will be away to uni (my eldest is living away at uni too). So I’m left with a husband who I plainly irritate because he can’t stand my constant mental and physical health problems. I’m feeling jolly sorry for myself today 😕
Community Mental Health is under resourced and over stretched in England too. My SIL was unable to make a psych appointment as he had been injured at work. So the psych signed him off into the care of my daughter for non attendance, saying if he couldn't attend, he obviously didn't need to be there. A very bad decision. They too are waiting to be readmitted into the system. It will be 12 months at best.
My OH was medically retired 30 years ago, and I have cared for him ever since. He had severe clinical depression plus a few other things going on. I admit, I sometimes I get a bit impatient with him, especially when I have to repeatedly remind him about simple things, like shutting the outside door to keep the heat in when it is mid winter...
I too was a stay at home mum, until his health collapsed, then suddenly after 17 years at home, I had to go to work full time to keep a roof over our heads, we were 18 months into a new house at the time. It was hard. Our youngest child was 7. We swapped places, he became a house husband, which worked OK for a few years until his health deteriorated further. But fast forward, we are still here!
Can you speak to your husband about his attitude, or is this not possible? My OH tends to inhabit the ground floor and I spend a lot of time on the 1st floor so we are not in each others pockets all day. Might not be an option for you, but I think it helps now I am retired and home all day.
In my area there are several groups that people can go to if they want to in my village (my man is not a group person), but just wondering if that is a way you could find some kindred spirits. We have family history , gardening, computers etc. Mostly during the day. Just a thought.
Yes, I have gastritis on and off, along with GERD, IBS, etc. I was originally diagnosed by endoscopy and over the past few years have had a further couple and am now awaiting a fourth. I now have to take a couple of PPIs daily or things flare badly. Things can also flare if I am stressed; if I eat a couple of very large meals in short succession (such as relaxing on holiday and thinking it'll be ok to stuff myself!); if I eat certain foods (I have had to cut out tomatoes, lemon, for example); or for no obvious reason.
For me, the solution - such as there is one - has been to get my PPI dose right and to work on anxiety reduction. I attended an NHS CBT for anxiety course, which helped me a lot.
Funnily enough, I had a tomato pasta dish for dinner and felt utterly awful after. No more tomatoes for me! I already don’t eat wheat, spicy foods, fizzy drinks, tea, coffee and have heavily reduced my dairy intake. Don’t eat red meat either.
I’ve been on a PPI for years, however while I had the flu and it affected my guts, one of the emergency doctors told me to stop taking the PPI and I literally can’t remember why because I was almost out of it. So I was without it for over a week, while also feeling super anxious. I’m also really constipated, which I honestly think makes everything in the gut worse. Since I’ve gone back on the PPI, I’ve had a really stressful problem to deal with (long story) and I suspect my husband and I are close to divorce. So, it’s no wonder I have a flare-up of this. It’s good to be able to talk to others with it, x
My long-time chronic Gastritis gives me persistent nausea which is related to my chronic Small Intestine Bacteria Overflow (SIBO) caused by my mouth to a*s chronic Slow Transit Dysmotility tendency to chronic Constipation...which is disguised by my chronic Viseral Hyperreactivity which causes overflow diarrhea when anything I’m sensitive to affects my GI tract
NHS Medics took decades to figure all this out! If I’d known all these GI conditions can be part of the same GI continuum MAYBE I could’ve got more convincingly diagnosed & more adequate medication + self help going sooner...would’ve saved me decades of suffering & bewilderment...
I’m really sorry you’ve been through all that 😞😞. What meds are you on now? I was really quite well gut-wise before I had the horrible flu virus that literally made my guts explode 😬
Thank . Yes, oh dear...viruses can trigger bad stuff 🤦🏼♀️
My case is v unusual due to my 4 childhood onset primary immune dysfunction & connective tissue disorder comorbidities + all their secondaries...I have to take a lot of long term daily prescrip meds for all these, but until my 50s I did my best to stick to lifestyle techniques/complementary therapies (I continue these now in my 60s alongside my meds)
Re the meds I take for my chronic progressively debilitating conditions: my autoinflammatory illnesses are involved, so rheumatology’s various immunosuppression meds help generally. For my PID ‘boy in the bubble’ illness, Immunology’s long term daily antibiotics reduce my SIBO-related gastritis, and 3-weekly IVIG may be helping the neurological aspect of my slow transit dysmotility. Gastroenterology has me on long term Exclusive Enteral Nutrition (predigested amino acids) because my small intestine has failed, so can no longer digest food (chronic intestinal failure is the rarest type of organ failure). Colorectal has me on methylcellulose (Celevac) for the constipation & diarrhea. I’ve been on other gastro meds long term over the decades (PPIs, domperidone etc) but increasing viscerally hyperreactivity means I’m now v limited re the meds I can tolerate & benefit from
But, remember: complex cases like mine are very unusual! I come here mainly cause there are a lot of expert patients seating tips re lifestyle management who have helped me a lot over the years
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