Gastritis Symptoms:

In most instances, it is difficult to tell if a person has gastritis if diagnosis will depend on the symptoms present alone. This is because most patients of gastritis do not manifest any symptom. As such, most people are not even aware that they have the condition until it becomes too late to treat the disease through medication.

• In any case, the first sign that is usually an indicator of gastritis is internal bleeding. However, even this is sometimes disregarded as a symptom of gastritis because there are other conditions that can also cause internal bleeding.
• Aside from internal bleeding, one indicator of gastritis is the presence of pain in the stomach. This pain usually originates from the upper central portion of the abdomen, commonly known as the pit of the stomach.
• In a person with gastritis, the pain in the abdomen can also be felt in the back. In fact, patients report that the pain seems to travel from the front to the back.
  The pain itself can be vague in description as well as in origin, but what patients commonly say is that the pain is very sharp.
• Moreover, belching doesn’t relieve the pain, or when it does, it does so only temporarily.