Have name changed as am feeling a bit daft and tearful.
OK- long story short..before Christmas I had a bout of thrush, cleared up with a canesten pill and cream.
At around the same time I started to get stomach gripes every now and then. By gripes I mean a general soreness in the upper abdomen, not the intestines. No sickness or diarrhea. This has now gone on for almost 3 mths. It's not actually debilitating, as I said, it's just sore. I've been down the Gaviscon route, there is also a lot of stomach wind involved (burpy wind though, not intestinal wind) and a sort of permanent bloating.
The GP has given me PPIs to take for 2 weeks and says she thinks it's gastritis. (which I take to be a general medical term for griping belly!) Have now done 1 week of them, tomorrow am due to start another week at a lower dose, but haven't noticed any difference. Yesterday I felt quite good, today it's been particularly gripey. Sometimes the soreness is slightly to the left, sometimes slightly to the right, but more usually just the general stomach area.Sometimes it ever so slightly goes into my back...(kind of how I imagine babies feel when they need to be burped, like air is passing through me and making me sore)
It doesn't seem to matter what I eat- although eating something does make it feel a bit better. When I wake up in the morning, I'm fine, after a cup of coffee and breakfast it starts to hurt.
I think that's it. Of course I've been googling all the nasty things it could be hence feeling daft and tearful.
Thanks for listening.