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New Symptom

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · Posted September 6, 2008
  • Journal · 4 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Health Master-Montel Williams

mphotographer
  • By mphotographer · Posted June 22, 2009
  • Discussion in Nutrition · 3 recommendations
  • Hi everyone- Has anyone heard of this gadget? I just watched an infomercial about it and it sounds interesting. You can see more info. about it @: myhealthmaster.com. It looks like a heavy duty blender ...

This is working for me!

GeorgiaCath
  • By GeorgiaCath · Posted January 14, 2009
  • Discussion in Alternative therapies · 3 recommendations
  • After my GP diagnosis the dr prescribed Reglan. The side effects were too risky for me so I went ama. I didn't know what to do, but my symptoms, like those that so many of you are sharing, needed treatment ...

Colonic Inertia

cmullenix
  • By cmullenix · Posted April 10, 2008
  • Discussion in Coping with chronic illness · 3 recommendations
  • I have recently been diagnosed with colonic inertia. My doc is having me try different meds. He started me on Amitizia and when I called them and told them that it made me feel like I had the flu. They ...

This Is Great!

Zacolton
  • By Zacolton · Posted March 24, 2008
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • I'm so pleased to see this site finally active, and I must say it is even greater the plan of action I suggested last conference in Cape Cod. I'm happy to have helped if even in just suggesting this and ...

A Creed to Live By

nanascorner
  • By nanascorner · Posted September 25, 2009
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • A Creed to Live By Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others, It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important, Only ...

Recipes For Gastroparesis

wannacheaven
  • By wannacheaven · Posted August 4, 2009
  • Discussion in Open discussion · 2 recommendations
  • Would anyone be interested in starting a recipe group or page containing recipes from the group?It may even be a possibility that we could have one printed and available to members like our church had ...

Jake

shan789
  • By shan789 · Posted November 7, 2008
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • So we ended up at the ER last night, with a very clogged NG tube. The dr. had a nurse try to unclog it, but it wouldn't budge. So they ended up putting in a new one. This one is a little bigger, and last ...

Another Day more pain

DGSTRICK
  • By DGSTRICK · Posted August 18, 2008
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Gastroparesis after Nissen Fundoplication.

ajonesy
  • By ajonesy · Posted April 16, 2008
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • Has this happened to anyone? Help ...

recently diagnosed with gastroparesis

Lucy_M
  • By Lucy_M · Posted November 6, 2009
  • Journal · 1 recommendation
  • 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 ...

Its so hard to keep on going

beachbum16
  • By beachbum16 · Posted September 15, 2009
  • Discussion in Depression · 1 recommendation
  • Hello everyone, Well I have had a huge struggle battling depression in the last year. Over the last few months I told myself that I wasn't going to live my life in fear anymore. I was going to get up ...

Amazing what a nap can do!

spiritlove
  • By spiritlove · Posted September 15, 2009
  • Journal · 1 recommendation
  • Slept 2 hours and feel a bit better. Finally did my 7:00 am exercises at 3:30 pm. Cheated a bit, just the laying down ones! Did hike down and got the mail. Will try again after supper, maybe I'll be able ...

Fighting back

Sunshinebaby7806
  • By Sunshinebaby7806 · Posted July 6, 2009
  • Discussion in Open discussion · 1 recommendation
  • OK, Since talking to my motility doctor about how I got GP.. he says its most likely due to my gall bladder surgery. Well, My mom and I were talking about what happened after the surgery and we both remember ...

Other Diseases Recently Diagnosed - could they be linked to GP?

Goldie512
  • By Goldie512 · Posted June 7, 2009
  • Discussion in Coping with chronic illness · 1 recommendation
  • I was just diagnosed with GP at the end of May. This is only one of several other diagnoses that I have recently received. In the past two years, I have been diagnosed with the following: 1. Rosacea (presents ...

New and obviously need more information

Goldie512
  • By Goldie512 · Posted June 5, 2009
  • Discussion in Coping with chronic illness · 1 recommendation
  • Hi! I am brand new to this site. I was just diagnosed with GP in May. In February, I started having symptoms of some pretty severe constipation that wasn't clearing up on its own - along with some blood ...

SEVERE Pain with Gastroparesis

jill3409dallas
  • By jill3409dallas · Posted May 5, 2009
  • Discussion in Understanding · 1 recommendation
  • He was diagnosed with GP about 6 months ago. Every since his diagnosis he has been having severe abdominal pain. We are in and out of the emergency room every other week. When he goes into the hospital ...

Breakthrough Digestive Research - Free Preview

audrey
  • By audrey · Posted April 24, 2009
  • Discussion in Open discussion · 1 recommendation
  • I subscribe to this site found alot of interesting information to share with the group . I also have posted ways to diet with digestive diorders in the past that have worked for myself . I don't like ...

Deadly medication combinations

Carol88
  • By Carol88 · Posted April 19, 2009
  • Discussion in Open discussion · 1 recommendation
  • Last week I went into cardiac and respiratory arrest. I was sleeping and my huisband came to check on me. I was purple. He immediately gave me CPR and got me breathing enough to call 911. I was rushed ...

The medications you take and the side effects Drs ignore

audrey
  • By audrey · Posted April 4, 2009
  • Discussion in Open discussion · 1 recommendation
  • I was at deaths door in 2007 and I blamed it on the medications I was on and the ignorounce of Drs Because they didn't listen to me . Sometimes the side effects are worse then the illness. I'm not saying ...

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