August is Gastroparesis Awareness Month. In February 2015, Medivizor received a guest post by Melissa Adams VanHouten sharing her journey with this disorder. Since then, Medivizor has tried to bring light to this disorder. There are a few articles on gastroparesis in the Medivizor library. These include Diabetic gastroparesis: what treatment options are available?, Traditional Chinese medicine for diabetic gastroparesis, Does gender affect your chances of getting gastroparesis in type 2 diabetes? and Treatment options for diabetes-related neuropathy in the gut. Please check out these posts to learn more.
There are treatments of the symptoms but as yet there is no cure. According to the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, the funding for research from the NIH on this condition is at the same level it was 15 years ago. Although the prevalence of gastroparesis is 24 in 100,000 people, it may be under diagnosed as one author names it the gastroparesis iceberg.
This is brilliant, Thankyou! Is Gastroparesis still considered rare or is it generally rarely diagnosed? & what connection is here between nervous damage & connective tissue disorders like Scleroderma & Ehlers Danlos syndrome
Very well done and informative.
I have had these symptoms and have been telling my doctor, he just keeps trying bulking me cations, I don’t think he s listening, I am almost screaming at him my tummy doesn’t churn, , will make him acknowledge t next time, I have gone nearly ten days without the loo, the only thing that shifts me is a combination of morphine, lactalose and sena cot, taken after my tummy starts refusing the food, he blames it on my fibromyalgia and lack of exercise because I’m wheelchair bound, but weird how it churns when I have morphine though,
There is a new field of autoimmune gastrointestinal dysmotility or sometimes hypermotility and the symptoms are much the same of what is talked about it eh article above but this doesn’t allow food to stay in you and it was discovered at the Mayo clinic in Rochester Inn and they are the only ones that are able to do the test but I’m not sure about the treatments they do them there but I’m hoping they can send it to my doc so he could do the treatments here where I live
i have pain in my stomach that goes away when i sit down. When i stand up it come back. This does not happen all the time but has been going on the quite a few years. I have had test but doctors have no idea what it is. They just tell me to take tums or other medicine. Something is causing it. I wake up at night half of the time with nausea. I get up and read for an hour and it goes away. I had lung cancer 11 years go with bottom rt lobe removed. it had not spread to the lymph nodes and recovered. Any possible suggestions help would be appreciated
I’ve been suffering with Gastroparesis for nearly 23 years. Symptoms started at 11. I take reglan for it but doesn’t help much. I had a recent flare up. Food doesn’t digest. Just sits in the stomach rotting til I start belching rotted egg taste then end up vomiting. Have to have a bowel movement regularly..or it will end bad. Can’t eat much but liquid foods.
Has anyone ever suggested you try domperidone? This saved me
How long did it take to start working? I’m using that now – tiny change, but it’s only been a few days