Eat pain and vomit

sometimes this happens if you have a virus, if you eat too much, if you drank too much.

Oh, you didn't say that you vomit every day and have diarrhea. Do you have blood in your stool or in your diarrhea? Have you lost weight?

Your regular DR is right to send you to a GI. I am sorry you have to wait until February. I hope you can find an earlier appointment.

Jon,

I don't know if this will help you, but when I was first diagnosed and was having trouble with foods, the doctor told me to start off with bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast only. He called it the BRAT diet. I was hoping he wasn't referring to how cranky I was . He told me to add one thing at a time slowly. I was told to avoid anything with citrus, acidic, spaghetti sauce, chocolate, and coffee particularly.

It took a while, but I was able to find a few things to eat to add to my list. Eating the bananas helped me quite a bit as they seem to settle my stomach. I've had a couple people tell me it was because of the potassium, but I'm not sure if that's correct.

I did some times throw up while I was first getting my diet settled. I did not go off as much as it sounds like you are. I just wanted to share that method of adding food in case it is helpful for you. Each person seems to be a little different as to what they can tolerate. I have IBS with diarrhea and my daughter has IBS with constipation. She can eat Citrus foods at will, and I only eat citrus if I really want to spend a few hours in the bathroom. Some foods I can only eat after a good meal so that there is something else in there. For instance, if I want to have a glass of wine, I have to order it with the meal and make sure that I don't start it until after I have had some food.

I wish you luck working through this. I still remember how frustrating this was when I first had to find out my tolerances 16 years ago. I still get forgetful today to convince myself that I can eat some things that I should not. I hope some of this information can help you.

Sounds like gastritis, inflammation of the stomach wall which is irritated by acid causing pain after you eat. Have you tried tums or gaviscon when the pain comes on? Chocolate and coffee are two massive triggers for stomach acid so that could be the problem if you improved after stopping them.

Do a google search for good/bads foods with gastritis, getting your diet sorted will improve your symptoms dramatically. Dont drink soda, in fact pretty much just drink water, and avoid salty foods, again it stimulates acid production. Also make sure to check your stools, if they are black or bloody then you probably have a stomach ulcer and need to see the dr asap.

If you still have problems on a restrictive diet your doctor will probably prescribe a PPI to limit stomach acid production to let you heal. If you do go on them then I cant stress enough to gradually ween off them when you are better and want to stop. Stopping them cold turkey will likely bring all the problems back but drs never seem to realise this and will tell you to just stop them.