Alcoholic Gastritis??

Hello, I am a 22 year old Male and have been drinking relatively heavily for about a year now. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself an alcoholic, but I drink almost daily with occasional days off. I’ve taken about a week completely off every few months or so, but no real long breaks. Regularly I would say I drink about 2-4 drinks a night, but not uncommonly I’d have 5-7 in a night if there’s a football game on or something, or I just want to get drunk. I never blackout, have killer hangovers, get withdrawals, or any other complications from my drinking. I only go HARD about a couple times a year, but still not to the point of blacking out or throwing up. I know this isn’t healthy at all, but I assumed I tolerate alcohol better than most.

Now, the real problem started about valentine’s day when my single buddies decided to go bar hopping because we were all single and wanted to still celebrate. I got pretty smashed that night, I had A LOT, over 10+ drinks for sure. Felt pretty awful the next day and didn’t want to drink again but I had a concert that night I was looking forward too so I didn’t listen to my body and had a couple drinks, didn’t feel great but I was fine. After that I took about two days off to recover and then tried to get back to my regular “chill” drinking habits. I only had about 2-3 drinks but I noticed my upper abdomen hurting when I drank, not unbearable but uncomfortable enough to not be able to enjoy a buzz. My dumbass then proceeded to order very spicy wings and that was game over. Wicked acid reflux and threw up in the night on myself, could hardly sleep. I figured it was the spicy food that did me in and ate bland food the next day and then just tried taking a few shots of vodka instead of my regular more acidic cocktails i make. Same pain when drinking my body was telling me something wasn’t right so i stopped after like 1 drink and took some tums. I had another night of throwing up, acid reflux and not sleeping much.

Every night since, I haven’t drank any alcohol at all, I know my body needs to heal, something isn’t right. First day after a sober night, my stomach still was turning and I felt pretty terrible overall, wasn’t able to eat much. Past 3 days I’ve started taking PPIs in the morning and tums after eating small meals, trying to avoid anything spicy or hard to digest. Pain has subsided and I feel a ton better over all but i can feel it in my gut (literally and figuratively) that I shouldn’t booze still.

Is what I’m experiencing probably acute gastritis, or am I overreacting and just need to give my body a break, and just irritated my stomach from going too hard? What should I do to treat this the best and fastest way? I’m okay with taking a break from alcohol to take care of this but to be frank, I have zero intention of quitting alcohol for good. Any advice is greatly appreciated.