Just got my second flare-up of gastritis in a month. This one was debilitating.

I was bedridden for three days. Literally, moving and trying to switch positions was extremely painful. My entire chest/abdomen/back has felt extremely bruised. Getting up also made me extremely nauseous. Can’t even stand up all the way straight because my abdomen feels so sore abd tight. Absolutely no appetite, Can barely get down just a few bites of chx noodle soup a day (I’m lucky to have a wife and two daughters to take care of me). Vomiting (a little).

I had to miss three days of work for this. They were supportive, worried and caring (I went back today), but this happening again will start to arouse suspicion. And I don’t get paid if I’m not on the clock so this is also beating my pocketbook.

I think I’m finally done. I did force myself to drink some throughout these days, which was awful. But I was worried about going into wd and not really being able to distinguish between it and the gastritis. Seemed risky. But good news is I could only stomach about half of my daily intake (was on 12 shots a day, for about a year — daily drinker on beer for about another year before that). So I’ve been doing 6. I’m halfway there. Not sure whether to just quit completely or continue tapering.

Also, I luckily already gave Prilosec and sucrafalte from my last gastritis flare-up so I’ve been taking that in lieu of going to the dr...for now.