Horrible pain after endoscopy

Hi everyone, I am new here! I hope I can get some guidance from you.
Dec 10th I had an endoscopy to see the reason of the pain I was having in my stomach. I was fully sedated and I didn’t know that the dr was going to take some biopsies. When I woke up from the anesthesia immediately I started feeling some pain and burning. When the dr came to see me I told her and she said that it will go away. Has been now 11 days and the pain is not minimizing at all. I feel like open sores in every area the dr took a biopsy (7 in total). I have gone to see her and she told me to take the antibiotics for h pylori since they found that in my stomach and sent me to have an ultrasound and all came back clear. I have done endoscopies before and never had felt pain after the procedure. I don’t know what else to do. My esophagus and my stomach are in so much pain. Like I said feels like open sores. I don’t have fever and I am not vomiting. Could it be an infection? Has anyone felt something similar? How long did you suffer and what helped to heal? Thank you so much for your replies!

Thank you so much Sharon. I haven't tried Gaviscon. Just taking antibiotics, Nexium, Probiotics and Buscopan. I am planning to go to the ER and ask have them do an MRI or CT-Scan just to make sure that there is nothing wrong.

Hi Gloria thank you for reaching out. The Dr diagnosed me with a chronic active superficial gastritis. No metaplasia or atrophy. After talking to another GI he said that it is not usual to have so much pain after an endoscopy and probably doing that (the endoscopy with biopsy) might have triggered something else. Unfortunately he can only see me in January.

GloriaD, thank you so much for the suggestions. So what do you then eat (breakfast, lunch and dinner)? Most mornings I also have been eating oatmeal with blueberries and chia seeds. For lunch what I eat is boiled sweet potatoes either with salmon or with chicken. Most of the times for dinner I have vegetable soup.

SaCB, breakfast- cream of wheat or cream if rice. Lunch and dinner - I make a vegetable soup and blend all vegetables after they are overcooked. I eat it as my dish or mix it with soup liquid and eat it as soup. I only use vegatables that are GERD friendly and are ok with FODMAP diet which are parsnip, carrots, spinach, collard greens, chard, kale is ok but I don't like it, potatoes, eggplant. Sometimes I will have eggs. Somebody on this forum was eating just egg custard while trying to heal gastritis. Baked fish is ok. I think salmon is too fatty. I noticed having more pain after salmon. I bake chicken, chop it in the food processor and mix it in vegetable soup. I am on carafate and occasionally take tums if the pain gets intolerable. I will give a couple of more weeks for carafate to do its job and will switch to ppi as I don't think the carafate is helping. I am pretty much in constant pain which goes up and down. I don't use salt or any seasoning. My case is really bad. It has been 2 years with no healing since I didn't aggressively treated it. from start. You might not have to be on the very strict diet. Btw, blueberries are acidic. I used to eat them and a lot when I was diagnosed. I also used to eat chai seeds, hemp seeds, nuts, all good stuff I thought. But turned out it is all bad for gastritis.

Hi SaCB. As GloriaD mentioned, blueberries are acidic. Here is the oatmeal recipe I have been using for a few weeks now on a low-acid diet. I eat it every morning. It tastes rather bland but is filling.

- 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 5 Tbsp (2 1/2 ounces) old fashioned oats
- 1/2 ripe banana, sliced or chopped *
- 1 Tbsp organic coconut flakes (optional)

In a non-stick pan, heat the almond milk over medium heat. Add the oats and stir constantly until thick and creamy. Remove from the heat. Add the banana and coconut. Mix well and serve.

* Try for bananas on the ripe side. Unripe bananas have a pH of about 6.5, whereas fully ripe bananas have a pH of about 8.0.

Hi GloriaD and SaCB,....thanks for the informative posts.

Could you describe your upper GI pains Do any refer to your sides/ ribs or down to your lower left quadrant?

damo123
Most of the times I have pain right in the middle, like just below the xiphoid. The pain sometimes radiates to both sides of the ribs, but most of the times to my left side. It also attacks my left quadrant and also my shoulder blade. Now I am dealing with a new pain after my endoscopy. I feel like little open sores especially on my abdomen. The dr said that it has nothing to do with the endoscopy as it was done in the stomach and not the blader. So he thinks that might have triggered something in my body. But it is just very weird.
I also have noticed that when it is close to my period the pain intensifies. Also, I have felt like my stomach is too full for me to eat anything and other times no matter how much I eat the stomach still feels empty and I have gnawing pain.