Question:
Has anyone else been diagnosised with acute gastritis after having surgery?

I was diagnosed with acute gastritis. I had my surgery 7 months ago . The gastroenteritis recommends I have my surgery reversed. Has anyone else developed this complication? I am so depressed and scared. I will try anything before I have to have this reversed. thanks Dawn    — Dawn T. (posted on April 23, 2002)

April 23, 2002
Whats your surgeons opinion?
   — bob-haller

April 23, 2002
hi dawn i am one year out and i have acute gastritis, it is terrbly painful but my surgen is treating it with prilesec and malox 2x a day and it has gotten better, i have a oppointment tommarrow and i will find more out then, could you email me with what it feels like when you have a attack? mine feel like i am in labor i have alot of back pain and adominal pain, in my oppinion a reversal is alot easier said then done i would not do it i hear it is more life thretning than the first sugery and it doesn't always work meaning you old stomak my never work right again, i would look into how this can be treated that is what i am doing right now, please email me maybe we can give each outher support as we go through this:)
   — sandra M.

April 23, 2002
I've had gastritis on & off, depending on the stress level of my life. BUT THEN, I also had it pre-op. I guess you'd have called it a "nervous stomach", which became a nervous pouch. Oh well, we know it, so we're on top of it. When it acts up, my surgeon hits it with Prilosec (which works well for me), Carrafate and Maalox. I keep Carrafate on hand because sometimes it can knock it out before I have to go much further. You didn't say what kind of surgery you have or how it was done. Any chance your staple line is disrupted? Marginal ulcer? One wonders what's going on that makes it "untreatable" in this doc's eyes. I'm with Bob. What does your surgeon say?
   — vitalady