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Finding encouragement
Having faith; looking for support; needing prayers, finding a purpose
New member seeking support
- By Wantonwonderer · New reply 2:39 pm
- 13 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 ...
Gastroparesis and Pregnancy
- By hwilson8 · New reply November 19, 2009
- 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 ...
Gastroparesis and depression
- By JeffS · New reply November 11, 2009
- 14 replies
- My apologies if this topic has been addressed previously, but I'm wondering whether anyone has developed depression along with gastroparesis or IBS. Every since having been diagnosed with GP/IBS a couple ...
A Year following Total Gastrectomy
- By gdmk · New reply November 5, 2009
- 18 replies
- My name is Glenn MacKinnon and I live in Cape Breton N.S. and am 39 years old.Last year I had a Total Gastrectomy followed by an additional surgery for a bowel leak and several post-operative infections.I ...
I AM OFF
- By plushy · New reply September 25, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hi, everyone, I leave for disney and i am really praying for a good trip, the nerves are still there and i look as if i am leaving for good with all the stuff i had to pack. It makes me feel like i have ...
Pregnant with GP
- By Sunshinebaby7806 · New reply September 9, 2009
- 21 replies
- Hi everyone.... I am waiting for a call back to see if i am really pregnant and if so, how far along. I took a pregnancy test on Sunday and it came back positive. I havent been feeling good... and I knew ...
Prayers for Loie
- By Gajudy · New reply July 28, 2009
- 69 replies
- I want to ask everyone for your prayers for Loie. Last week she got a bad diagnoses. She expects to be admitted to the hospital tomorrow (Monday). She may be there for quite some time. I'll let her share ...
Total Removal of the Stomach
- By sharronm55us · New reply July 20, 2009
- 13 replies
- I really do not have the strength right now to explain everything. I was 131 pounds on April 20th and am 112 right now. I did have diarrhea but now I just got out of ER because of being totally impacted ...
Multi-visceral transplant
- By heartmom · New reply June 23, 2009
- 2 replies
- Good Morning, all the tests have come back and I have been given a new subject to begin to wrap my mind around. I am grateful that I have an option that possibly will allow me more time to spend doing ...
Anyone have success overcoming rebound quitting Proton Pump?
- By tiger06 · New reply June 17, 2009
- 2 replies
- I am 24, was put on ppi's b/c I had a mild stitch like gnawing feeling in the middle of the stomach (brought on by stress)..I believe it was made worse by worrying what it was and when I was put on the ...
My Drs say my whole insidies are not working. now what do I do?
- By DGSTRICK · New reply June 16, 2009
- 9 replies
- I have been unable to eat now for almost two years since I had a carcinoid tumur removed from my small bowel. Since that time my stomach and small intestines became paralized or diseased with Motility ...
in need of some help
- By worship4lf1 · New reply June 10, 2009
- 5 replies
- i am 29 yrs old and have spent the last two months in the hospital. They finally found out that it was gastroparesis and addison's disease. I am in horrible pain almost all the time and now I can't keep ...
support for daughter
- By cookiesmom · New reply June 1, 2009
- 10 replies
- I am not a patient, I am a mother of an 18 year old daughter who has been suffering for over 2 years. She went to a Pedi. GI doctor who assumed she had IBS after alot of testing. Finally after a year ...
Colonic Inertia with Pelvic floor dysfunction
- By lmh196109 · New reply January 14, 2009
- 22 replies
- I'm a 46 year old female and I have been diagnosed with colonic inertia and pelvic floor dysfunction through every test under the sun. I am currently taking 5 full capfulls of miralax per day along with ...
Not sure if I belong here, but MDs don't seem to know?
- By clksh · New reply January 10, 2009
- 14 replies
- I am a 33 year old mother of 3 small children. 10 years ago I began to have what doctors described as 'gall bladder issues,' without any real medical evidence (no stones, proper functioning) other than ...
Out with the old
- By dansmom · New reply January 1, 2009
- 2 replies
- When wishing a person "Good health" for the New Year, I now know how important that wish really is. In years past I took that phrase for granted and never gave it any real consideration. To all patients ...
Scared about Mayo Visit
- By CookieLessMonster · New reply December 8, 2008
- 11 replies
- Hi, I am new to the group, and have only been newly diagnosed (complete paralysis starting at the sphincter at the base of my esophagus). After years of being told that I was constipated and/or had a ...
Improvements
- By Kate1 · New reply November 7, 2008
- 7 replies
- Hi, everyone. I haven't posted a discussion in a while, and I realized that it is probably because my GP has been better and it hasn't occurred to me to write. Then I realized it is just as important ...
16 with gastro paresis
- By damsssel · New reply September 16, 2008
- 9 replies
- well im 16 and have had gastro paresis for nearly a year. through everything i never had anyone my age to talk to and would like to find some one to discuss how they got through it or if anyone needs ...
Trying to cope with what looks like GP
- By Kate1 · New reply February 17, 2008
- 9 replies
- Hi. I found this site the other day and was so relieved to read about other people who may be able to relate to what I'm going through. I was diagnosed with GP a few months ago, but didn't have a severe ...
