There's a lot that remains unanswered so it's hard to say anything with certainty. I agree with my colleague - IV nutrition is reserved for people with no gut, or a biologically nonfunctional gut.However, if erosive gastritis is the issue preventing you from eating, and you have lost that much weight in 6-12 months, you may be a candidate for a feeding tube placed in your small intestine, past the level of your stomach.I don't understand why the gastritis has been this refractory to treatment (it is usually fairly simple to treat). In general the answer would be fixing the stomach problem. But a feeding tube could be used here while trying to solve the medical issues.
Yes, I was diagnosed with an endoscopy, and I believe there were erosions in 3 places. At first I was on sucralfate 3x daily, Pantaprazole 1x daily, and dicyclomine 3x daily. That hasnt worked, so Im now on Pantaprazole 2x daily, sucralfate as needed, and dicyclomine 1x daily. That might change, however, as I have sought out a new gastro after the last one dismissed me passing a lot of blood in my stool and colon pain (likely from a large amount of antibiotics I had been prescribed).My symptoms have been strange, and I dont at all understand them. On MRIs they have seen torn ligaments, but there were no reasons for it to be torn; they have seen inflammation in my eyes, but there was no reason for it to be inflamed; and they can feel the popping/tightened muscles and described them as being constantly kicked on. But, the bloodwork comes back fine; the silver lining is that maybe Ill get something named after me?