update on bad abdominal pain

Last night shortly after I posted the pain became unbearable so I went to the ER.  After a three hour wait to be seen my pain started to get better.  The Dr. said it was gastritis  and gave me some pain  medicine.  I had called my surgeon and he requested a cat scan.  This showed everything was normal and I was sent home. I am feeling much better today.  I don't know how I can be in pain that rivals labor and told that I don't have anything wrong.  I am very frustrated with the whole experience.

Gastritis is a very real thing and can cause horrible pain. If that's what the ER Dr said it was they should be following up w/ a endoscopy to verify what is causing the gastritis. I believe helio cobacter (or something like that) is a bacteria that can cause gastritis and if that is the case you'd need antibiotics to get rid of it. I had gastritis but it wasn't caused by the bacteria. My surgeon then put me on a prescription for prilosec to help keep the inflamation in my pouch down.

I agree with the first reply!  You need to be scoped.  I'm an RN and have worked in the ER for several years at a time.  That seems to be a "catch-all" diagnosis that is given, at times, when they don't know what's really going on.  Generally tho, you have to scope to a true diagnosis of gastritis.  That pain is pretty horrific though.  Doesn't it seem that you should get a diagnosis of something like "huge boulder in your gut that we had to remove" with something that painful?!