Gastrointestinal Disorders - Diagnosed with mild gastritis don't know what this means anyway if you?

Dear Pattishan-Yes, diet- They're called "food triggers" that set off cramps and diarrhea or make constipation worse. Let me make a complete trigger list-the doctors change it every so often-but it goes back to the basics-I call it the no "C" Diet- 7 triggers
#1-No CARBONATION-no COLAS-the bubbles make the gas worse and sodas have an acid so both make GERD worse.
#2-No CERVAZAS (beer) or COCKTAILS-Alcohol causes the stomach to relax too much and interferes with vitamin and nutient intake-many alcoholics are skinny.
#3-No CHOCOLATE- Again it causes the stomach to relax too much-and the sugar in it doesn't help.
#4-NO COLD FOOD-NO HOT FOOD either-Our mixed up stomachs can get really crazy when we eat something piping hot and have an iced drink-this includes ice water. That's why we can eat a safe food and still get horrible cramps or worse. ICE CREAM is bad because of the temperature and sugar content. Even ice cubes alone

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#5- No CHILE or other spicey food-
#6-No CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, CARROTS or other roughage-especially gas causing roughage. Everybody is different-and the same stomach reacts differently at different times-as health and stress causes the stomach to be different. Also some doctors tell patients to avoid anything with lots of peels or skin. One woman at the USN hospital in San Diego, CA decided to eat green peas and got worse, while on a bland diet. We had the same doctor.
#7-No CAKE, no CANDY-as sugar is a diffinite trigger. Another thing is ARTIFICIAL SUGARS-many are made from ground up, bleached fruit peels, which sets off IBS. It can actually make fine cuts in a very delicate stomach. I kept telling them that it made me sicker than a dog-So this also could be under No CHEMICALS. I don't put any type of sugar on my cereal.
#8-No CRISPY FRIED anything- the fat in pastries-pies-french fries, etc.
#9-No CUSTARDS or CHEESE-Milk products set many people off-during the 1990s some doctors thought that IBS victims were allergic to milk because of the severe reactions. I had an allergy test, and knew that I wasn't allergic. We often have a sweet like a cookie with a glass of milk or sugary cereal. I can drink milk, but I avoid sugar.
#10- No CORN or CORN products-Well, we pretty much knew that hot crispy tacos were bad.
#11- No CAFFIENE-Coffee, iced tea, energy drinks, etc can all over stimulate a cranky stomach.
I'll stop before you feel like crying with me. I'm 69 and had this horrible thing since the 1960s. With diet and exercise I've been living a decent life. I'm a cycler that goes between constipation to diarrhea, mostly diarrhea. A great family practitioner had me take metamucil-citracil (which causes less bloating)even a little bit while having diarrhea-it kept my stool from getting hard and causing diarrhea.
Another thing is that bran helps but wheat shorts cuts your stomach. I kept complaning to my military doctors that many times buying bran cereals, muffins, often caused really bad reactions. But if I made my own from scratch there wasn't a problem. I ran into some Hill Billys at a Georgia feed store that explained the problem. A grain of wheat has 2 coverings-outer-called wheat shorts, and inner-the bran. Wheat shorts can cut the stomachs of horses, cows, sheep, and humans, but bran is safe for people. Hogs are the only animals that can safely digest shorts. Guess what? The cereal companies and bakeries used shorts as bran to reduce costs. The Air Force investigated this, as I wasn't the only one complaining very loudly about doubling up cramps after a few days of bran cereal. The AF put pressure on the FDA to pressure the "cuss word" companies-and military units refused to buy the cereals and breads to serve troops. Any time you see a Southern Redneck with a mullet, a hound, pickup truck, and in overalls or jeans-give a mental note of thank you for your stomach and to military at the feed store doctors that listened to the wisdom of the "Good old boys" in Appalachia. I fed bran to my horses to help them digest, and they were out of bran-they also noticed that I bought sweet feed for my horses. Like they say in "The Dukes of Hazzard" - "Thank God for good ol' boys."

hey new friend Meyati, thanks for that as well. I just have the GERD, so far very lucky I know, no IBS. I would not have to travel very far to see a feed store, red necks or hill billies, can I say that without getting you upset. It is an expression of my wish to be friends with you and is meant as an example of my humor in a way. I am glad someone appreciates the hill billies , I live In LA, as in Lower Alabama, and i promise i am joshing with you and trying to be friends, i really actually do live in Alabama, in a suburb of the larger city know as Mobile. I have met the sweetest people on this site and they are from all over. My boyfriend is from Philly, PA, but lives in Grand Bay, Alabama, there are 2 feed stores by his house.

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I have found that life really is a "rich pageant," don't know if you are familiar with the band, REM, but the title to one of their albums was "LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT," and i fell in love with that saying as for me it expressed that each person, place and thing we experience should be embraced and was put in our lives for a reason, many of which i end up learning from. The was a Prayer set to music in the early 70's called "Desiderata," the Prayer was by the founder of the Unity Church, the song featured a man named Les Crane. The chorus was ,"you are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars, YOU have the right to be here and whether or not, it is clear to you, there's no doubt the Universe, is unfolding, as it should. I might have been 11 when it came out and that song was a powerful influence on me. Welcome to our site, Meyati, i am honored you chose us, you will fit in nicely, and add much support and info. I friended you, friend me back if you choose to. Sorry you have IBS, i have heard it is quite awful. I am treated my Gerd, but had that one symptom you mentioned and i read your answer thoroughly, it is excellent, THANK You. Hope others see it soon, pattishan61

Dear Patti, I live in NM. I've had IBS since the 1960s. I got to meet some wonderful and goofy doctors in the Navy. Most of them liberated concentration camps with the Brits in Germany, after they realized that inmates got diarrhea and died from food-that seemed to set up IBS for life. These same doctors then went to the Pacific to help liberate prisoners of the Japanese. Then they realized that POWs, pilots, special forces, etc seemed to set up IBS-the stress, lack of meals, dehydration, forced marches-so the military has really helped the IBS and GERD community.

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I went to a feed store in Applinging County, closer to home, etc. One day we went in to get feed, and one of the good ol' boys asked me if we lived in Baxley County. We said, "yes." Then he said that since we'd been there for a bit, that it was time for me to get a permit to shop in another county, as that's what they did in Georgia. I told him that in New Mexico we had to get permits to enter other counties and shop. The Ol' Boys all leaned forward with their eyes bugging out. "Really" "god damn Bubba, did you know that?" I said that since we were a military family that we actually had to have a national shopping permit for feed stores. That got them choking on their chaw. I asked them if they wanted to see my federal and Georgia permits. "yes." and they were whispering and poking each other. I pulled out a wad of $20 bills-American and my Georgia drivers license. I said the federal issued currency was my pass anywhere in the US, as nobody would sell me anything without it. We all had a good laugh-and I was and still am considered a good josher-a good old boy-my hounds are rigged up for Harlan, KY, and the West Virginia statue of the mountainman in front of the state capitol building is a distant ancestor of mine. I appear serious-and I try to be serious when writing-as nobody can tell-Well, they can't tell anyway. You can joke me any time.