Suffering from gastritis/oesophagitis

pensierobello
pensierobello Posts: 285 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hoping for some guidance - having been feeling awful for days, went to doc and was diagnosed with the above, meaning my oesophagus lining is inflamed and leaking acid. I have been given two weeks worth of pills but am struggling with eating at the moment because everything seems to make me feel awful.

In the wake of some horrible experiences this weekend, I have decided to avoid spicy foods (obviously!) and dairy and most vegetables for the next couple of weeks until I'm better and stick to plain and starchy foods that I think my body can tolerate, like plain bread, plain chicken and so on. But I don't want to lose weight through starvation - today my friend forced me to eat some of the aforementioned and bumped my calories up to 550ish. Any ideas for really, really plain stuff that won't make it worse?

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  • andreawees
    andreawees Posts: 2 Member
    I had the same thing about 5 months ago...it was the worst feeling ever. I would feel so bloated and have bad stomach pains all day, every day. During the days that I had no idea what it was, I survived on crackers, Greek yogurt, bread, rice, oatmeal, bananas and hours with my heating pad. After my endoscopy and diagnosis, I took prescription strength Zantac and Prilosec (one in morning and one at night). Went away after about 3 weeks of that.
    Unfortunately, I dont have any suggestions on what to eat to not lose weight and not cause symptoms! . I just wanted to let ya know that I feel your pain!
    Hope you feel better soon!!
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Depending on how you feel: rice, applesauce, yogurt, potatoes, bananas
  • pensierobello
    pensierobello Posts: 285 Member
    I had the same thing about 5 months ago...it was the worst feeling ever. I would feel so bloated and have bad stomach pains all day, every day. During the days that I had no idea what it was, I survived on crackers, Greek yogurt, bread, rice, oatmeal, bananas and hours with my heating pad. After my endoscopy and diagnosis, I took prescription strength Zantac and Prilosec (one in morning and one at night). Went away after about 3 weeks of that.
    Unfortunately, I dont have any suggestions on what to eat to not lose weight and not cause symptoms! . I just wanted to let ya know that I feel your pain!
    Hope you feel better soon!!

    Weirdly, I had an endoscopy two weeks ago to check for something else - I'm wondering if this was set off by that, as they didn't find anything like this then! Thanks so much for the sympathy - I will give the crackers and the rice a go :) Even bananas are scaring me right now! I've been put on metoclopramide (3x a day) and omeprazole (2x a day) for the next two weeks.
  • pensierobello
    pensierobello Posts: 285 Member
    Depending on how you feel: rice, applesauce, yogurt, potatoes, bananas

    Thank you :)
  • jenn3365
    jenn3365 Posts: 26 Member
    I myself am suffering greatly am on medication once a day for the stomach/esophagus and septrin. I also am taking librax which is helping a lot with the pain. My doctor said eat steamed or boiled foods like potato and other veggies. Plain pastas things like this. Hope you feel better. I have been on for 6 days still have pains but not like before.

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