For me personally, I've been struggling with mild chronic gastritis caused by HP since October, which has since been eradicated. However, the gastritis itself still feels like it's there. Even when I'm on high-dose PPI for months now, that burning sensation below my sternum can still be felt sometimes. I also got bad GERD symptoms, some of which have gone away with the PPI.
Come to find out recently, I'm also Vitamin D Deficient(11 ng/ml, borderline severe), which has been causing me a bunch of other symptoms. I know a part of it has to do with Covid-era environment and not being out in the sun much these days. But part of me wonders, could this possibly relate to the gastritis? I can't help but think of a cause-and-effect relationship here in a sense. Like could the gastritis have led to this Vitamin D deficiency(my diet has changed since the gastritis diagnosis but I still consume Vitamin D food such as eggs and fish), or am I healing slowly even after getting rid of HP because of the low Vitamin D levels?
If anyone has a good idea about how these two conditions relate to one another, I would greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts
