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hi everyone. I have had gastritis-like symptoms for 2 months now, and they have been quite strong, but now they are very slowly starting to improve after I stopped my PPIs.

I did an endoscopy and the histology showed I had gastritis type c.
I don’t know what caused it, I haven’t had a drop of alcohol in my life, no NSAIDs for 2 years, never smoked, I had a healthy diet, played sports and I don’t drink coffee.

One symptom that I just can’t wrap my head around, and it’s making me think this issue might be caused by something else rather than gastritis, and is keeping my gastritis worse, is that I can never sleep on my stomach or my belly, or even on my right or left sides, I can only sleep on my back. I also can not put any weight or pressure on my abdomen, especially after eating or drinking water, and I feel pain on my lower left side when bending down; otherwise when doing all that, I would feel a very uncomfortable and irritated stomach from the inside, with a weird liquid feeling in it, which stays like this for hours after that and is extremely annoying. I also feel fully quicker than usual and with some foods rather than others. I also find sitting in some positions uncomfortable to my mid left abdominal side.

Is this maybe functional dyspepsia, or are these regular gastritis symptoms? I live in Germany and it’s very hard to get appointments if any at all, they are all months apart. So that’s why I’m asking to see if anyone here also has these symptoms, maybe so that I can self-diagnose. I really can’t rely on doctors nowadays at all. I appreciate you guys!

hi everyone. I have had gastritis-like symptoms for 2 months now, and they have been quite strong, but now they are very slowly starting to improve after I stopped my PPIs.

I did an endoscopy and the histology showed I had gastritis type c.
I don’t know what caused it, I haven’t had a drop of alcohol in my life, no NSAIDs for 2 years, never smoked, I had a healthy diet, played sports and I don’t drink coffee.

One symptom that I just can’t wrap my head around, and it’s making me think this issue might be caused by something else rather than gastritis, and is keeping my gastritis worse, is that I can never sleep on my stomach or my belly, or even on my right or left sides, I can only sleep on my back. I also can not put any weight or pressure on my abdomen, especially after eating or drinking water, and I feel pain on my lower left side when bending down; otherwise when doing all that, I would feel a very uncomfortable and irritated stomach from the inside, with a weird liquid feeling in it, which stays like this for hours after that and is extremely annoying. I also feel fully quicker than usual and with some foods rather than others.

Is this maybe functional dyspepsia, or are these regular gastritis symptoms? I live in Germany and it’s very hard to get appointments if any at all, they are all months apart. So that’s why I’m asking to see if anyone here also has these symptoms, maybe so that I can self-diagnose. I really can’t rely on doctors nowadays at all. I appreciate you guys!