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JoAllison
  • By JoAllison · Yesterday at 6:32 pm
  • 0 replies
  • There have been changes since the stuff I transferred to that original entry. I'm still trying to live the best life I can. I still don't have it as bad as many - never developed the vomitting symptom ...

At First

JoAllison
  • By JoAllison · Yesterday at 6:14 pm
  • 0 replies
  • I decided to take some of this stuff out of my profile & start a basic journal with it as it's changed since I started. This initial entry will have the stuff I took out of my profile. I know right now ...

Severe Global Colonic Inertia-suffering terribly

JCatGuy
  • By JCatGuy · Yesterday at 2:23 am
  • 2 replies
  • Hello, I've been in and out of so many GI MD offices, ER's and hospitalizations in the past 1 3/4 years that it sickens me to even think about worse yet, I'm heading right back. Living in the outer boroughs ...

another ER visit

shan789
  • By shan789 · September 6, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • Jake has been sick for over a month. He was seen at the Er last Monday and we found out that he had an unusal bowel infection in his cecostomy site. They started antibiotics, flagyl and k-flex, and said ...

New Symptom

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · September 6, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • Well, I am not sure where this one is coming from, but.... I have recently come down with a new symptom.. of what, I am not so sure. My ankles hurt soooo bad.... It feels like I have two sprained ankles ...

Trouble with the medication Ciprofloxacin

Andrea1
  • By Andrea1 · September 5, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Last weekend I went into my urgent care center for a urinary tract infection. The doctor prescribed me an antibiotic called Ciprofloxacin (Cipro). I went home to take it and read the paper with the side ...

Drug Card to help offset the prescriptions and feeds?

DGSTRICK
  • By DGSTRICK · September 5, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • I just had my Ontario Drug card expire. Now I have to pay full price for presciptions. my monthof feeding is over 600 alone not counting the endless pain killers and other medications. I figure over $1200 ...

UPDATE.....URGENT...NEED INFO ON 6YR OLD WITH PANCREAS PROBLEM

KathyG
  • By KathyG · September 3, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • Today I had to take my 6 yr old grandson to the emergency dept. He has been sick for 2 days. In my earlier post I explained that he has a pancreas problem and is taking enzymes. About 5 weeks ago the ...

shelley50

shelley50
  • By shelley50 · August 29, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • i was recently diagnosed with GP. I have not had my period for 2 months now and feel tired all the time. I started taking domperidone 2 months ago. it has helped me but after reading thecother stories ...

Is he ever going to well?

shan789
  • By shan789 · August 28, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • Well Jake had his c-tube replaced with a Mic-key on Tuesday. He's having blood draining from his cecostomy site, the more active he is the more drainage. Then he woke up this morning throwing up. I know ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · August 27, 2008
  • 48 replies
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

Worried mom

shan789
  • By shan789 · August 23, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Jake started 7th grade oon Thursday. He was so scared and worried that his friends would find out about his c-tube. I tried talking to him about it but he will not talk to me. He is a great kid and is ...

Looking for food advice

GenGen
  • By GenGen · August 22, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • Hi Guys, I'm new to this group and I've been reading through the posts. I've been suffering with GP symptoms for 2 years and was diagnosed with GP 3 months ago. My main symptoms are constant nausea, bloating ...

Went to Doc today

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · August 20, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • Well, I went to the Doc today, first time in a long time... I know, I know, I should have gone a long time ago... bad me. The doc refilled my presecriptions (Thank the Goddess that he refilled my vicodin ...

Really good news for GP sufferers

docandkate
  • By docandkate · August 20, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • I see the DRs at Cal. Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco Ca. They have a Center for Neurogastroenterology, with Dr. Wm. Snape and Dr. Linda Nguyen. The NIDDK is coordinating a study on Gastroparesis ...

Went to State for assistance

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · August 19, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • Well, I finished my appl for State Assistance and sat/stood/walked, etc... there for 3 hours. Now it hurts like *#&@*# !!! The 'good news' is that I got a 'Pending Medical' slip so I could go see a doctor ...

Back from Mayo

Kerri-ann
  • By Kerri-ann · August 18, 2008
  • 16 replies
  • I'm back from minnesota and was diagnosed with yet one more thing actually 2, pelvic floor dysfunction and retal evacuation disorder. Anyone know about this stuff? I'm upset because they said the only ...

Another Day more pain

DGSTRICK
  • By DGSTRICK · August 18, 2008
  • 8 replies
  • Well today is another day of pain and agony. I tried to increase to speed of my feeding pump ( Kangaroo Joey) but it hurts too much. I woke up last night in soo much pain and I had to turn the setting ...

Back to Day-to-Day Stuff

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · August 18, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • Well I thought that I was on the mend from the other day, but alas, I was wrong... or it's just the day to day stuff getting to me again. My hips are bad today. My left side is the weakest, thanks to ...

Getting a little nervous...

Trixie617
  • By Trixie617 · August 18, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Hi GPers - I haven't posted in a while... but I have been increasingly nervous about my parents coming to visit. They haven't seen me in a little over a year & I have lost so-ooo much weight. I don't ...

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