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Taking a moment for ourselves
- By nanascorner · New reply 5:30 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- Chamomile Tea Outside the sky is light with stars; There's a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree. How little I thought, a year ago ...
TPN
- By Sunshinebaby7806 · New reply 5:27 pm
- Journal · 7 replies
- Ok, So I am 18 weeks pregnant and have been seeing a nutritionist... I have been mostly on liquids for the 18 weeks.. with about a week of "cheating." SO far the one week of cheating let me gain 4 pounds ...
got my g-pact card!
- By my4heathens · Posted 3:48 pm
- Journal · 0 replies
- I got my g-pact card the other day. Already put it to use and saved a couples bucks when they tried to add $3 to my order for ordering off the kids menu. I'm like nope, got a card to order off the kiddie ...
New GP diagnoses, many questions and concerns
- By jmullen · New reply 3:44 pm
- Discussion in Understanding · 1 reply
- I have been recently diagnosed with gastroparesis after many of tests; my doctor has seemed to dismissed it by telling me "there are not always answers." And concluding our visit after confirming my question ...
New member seeking support
- By Wantonwonderer · New reply 3:37 pm
- Discussion in Finding encouragement · 7 replies
- Hello everyone. I am a new member and I have been browsing the board for about a week. I was so relieved to stumble upon this website. I am 24 year old woman living in Northern California. I have been ...
Marijuana has helped me eat and keep the food down.
- By daytoday · Posted 3:32 pm
- Discussion in Inability to eat · 0 replies
- I have had gastroparesis for over 5 years and have really struggled. About 2 months ago a friend that uses medical marijuana for his chronic back pain (I live in Canada) suggested I try it for my stomach ...
Kind of test for obstruction
- By texascowgirl · New reply 3:31 pm
- Journal · 6 replies
- I'm trying to find out info on what kind of test they do to find obstruction in your small bowel? Just got back from Baylor in Dallas and surgeon will not do a Rouen-Y Reversal. The Gastro Dr and the ...
Ate some apple jelly today
- By cookielover86 · Posted 3:19 pm
- Journal · 0 replies
- I ate some apple jelly on water crackers about a half hour ago. My stomach is handling them well. I just have to wait until 1 pm to have my ensure with more crackers. I am having to help my mom with my ...
Need advice regarding antibiotics and GP!
- By Lauren2006 · New reply 2:28 pm
- Discussion in Open discussion · 6 replies
- Hi. For those of you that know me, I was dxed with GP (even though my GEs was normal at earlier this yr. My symptoms were very bad at the end of last yr and early this yr, but thankfully *knock on wood ...
Wow found out something interesting
- By Bekadawn1 · New reply 2:24 pm
- Journal · 3 replies
- I was feeling so good yesterday. I have been watching what I ate like a hawk. So I was really up for it when I won tickets to see the Songwriter's Showcase with Kelly Pickler, Joe Nichols, Bucky Covington ...
chiropractor for gastroparesis?
- By DawnTB · New reply 1:31 pm
- Discussion in Inability to eat · 11 replies
- Has anyone tried a chiropractor for gastroparesis? I am thinking about having my 15 year old see a chiropractor to see if they could manipulate the "vagus nerve" to help this condition. I have never used ...
Idiopathic Gastroparesis/ Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- By deathofurheart · New reply 8:19 am
- Discussion in Understanding · 23 replies
- Hi everyone. I'm new here. I am interested in talking to anyone with gastroparesis caused by Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. I was diagnosed with idiopathic gastroparesis a year ago and waiting on insurance to ...
Stomach Spasms?
- By yweinst · New reply 4:28 am
- Discussion in Pain issues · 6 replies
- My son is 3 and half years old and his whole life has been suffering with pain attacks. Since he has been able to speak we have asked him what they feel like, hoping that this will help us get him diagnosed ...
Bad Day
- By naivelittlemiss · New reply yesterday at 9:30 pm
- Journal · 12 replies
- I know with GP you have good days and bad days, but why do the bad days have to be so BAD! =[ I feel like I'm being immature but really I don't quite know how to deal with GP bad days yet. I am still ...
Gastroparesis and Pregnancy
- By hwilson8 · New reply yesterday at 8:30 pm
- Discussion in Finding encouragement · 13 replies
- Hi everyone! My name is Heather, and I'm new here. I was diagnosed with GP in November of 2008. I had an emptying scan in the middle of November that apparently showed that my stomach emptied 7% of it's ...
Physicians List
- By msc · New reply yesterday at 7:34 pm
- Discussion in Understanding · 19 replies
- Im looking for GI specialists who specialize in slow transit constipation or colonic inertia. Anyone care to nominate their physician? Name of physician and where he/she located. thx ...
I need some help with this......
- By Lauren2006 · New reply yesterday at 6:31 pm
- Discussion in Dealing with the fear · 2 replies
- Okay, so ever since I was dxed with GP based on symptoms (GES was normal) almost a yr ago, even though things have improved *knock on wood*, I am by no means symptom free. At the end of 2008 (dec was ...
What about Fiber Supplements for people with GP?
recently diagnosed with gastroparesis
- By Lucy_M · New reply yesterday at 10:00 am
- Journal · 10 replies
- Hello everyone I am a young biologist that has just been diagnosed with gastroparesis, a month ago. I am not sure how I should feel about this diagnosis and I am having trouble accepting my situation ...
GP and Constipation
- By Toho33 · New reply yesterday at 9:09 am
- Discussion in Pain issues · 11 replies
- I started have stomach issues since last year and have had every test known only to come back with first the H. poly bacteria, then gastritis then gp. I was put on reglan and that didn't help. I go back ...
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