I’ve been dealing with gastritis on and off the last few months. Doesn’t help that I’m a huge hypochondriac. In July 2023 my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (thankfully he’s on his last chemo treatment next week and he will be in remission!) once I found out about my father I started to get gastritis from lots of stress and anxiety I was dealing with. I dealt with dizziness, nauseous at times and the pressure feeling on my upper left abdomen under my rib. I let it be for a few months till one day I decided to go see a gastro doctor.

Spoke with the doctor and he told me from the symptoms I’m telling him he’s certain it’s gastritis. I felt somewhat relived I at least knew what it was and he said an endoscopy could be done if I wanted but it wasn’t necessary in his opinion since my symptoms weren’t severe. He prescribed me 20mg of omeprazole which helped me a bit as well.

NOW:

I do vape (trying to stop), deal with tons of anxiety & stress (mainly because of my health anxiety) I overthink everything health wise with myself. Recently I’ve been trying to eat bland foods and it was working fine for maybe 2-3 weeks. I’d have minimal pressure on my side when I consumed alcohol so I completely cut that out my life. Most recently I took ibuprofen for a headache I had and the next morning woke up a bit nauseous, dizziness, the side pressure again & my panic attacks are at an all time high. I know this all takes times to heal and the symptoms are normal but I’m just freaking out.

I just need advice on what you all believe I could do to help. Thank you in advance.