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Social impact
Impact of disease on social life such as, smaller social perimeters due to illness; unpredictable nature of motility diseases; having to be near a bathroom; school problems; dating; intimacy issues, working
ostomy bag
- By rileysmom · New reply September 27, 2009
- 5 replies
- My daughter's doctor is talking about an ileostomy bag. She is still an infant but I am worried about her growing up like a normal kid. Anyone out there living with an ostomy bag? How do you manage? Am ...
Book Recommendations, Anyone?
- By busyteacher · New reply August 19, 2009
- 20 replies
- We all spend a little more "down time" than most people. I think I've plowed through twenty books this summer. I have fallen upon Ellen Hopkins (although her books can be dark), and my favorite author ...
If you have GASTROPARESIS we NEED YOUR HELP!!!!
- By carebear169 · New reply July 17, 2009
- 4 replies
- GDPA~ www.digestivedistress.com *Request an informational package, of pamphlets, useful information, informational papers of how to deal with this and this is very important, they will also send you politcal ...
Yahoo Messenger?
- By proudmom2x · Posted March 23, 2009
- 0 replies
- I was wondering if anyone with CIPO has yahoo messenger. I would love to find some people that I can chat with on a daily basis just to offer support to someone else and so they can help support me also ...
GP in public
- By ktmorong12 · New reply February 2, 2009
- 10 replies
- I haven't posted in a LONG time. (sorry) I have had gp for 7ish years now so I had it all through high school and now college. I had to take leave of absence/withdraw from college after a month due to ...
Facial Scabbing
- By DolphinRider · New reply January 28, 2009
- 4 replies
- A year ago my face started scaling. Searching scaling faces it turned out my husband had an ulcer. This led to all kinds of studies done on me and came up with the GP diagnosis. I have IgG (autoimmune ...
Pooping
- By sprite · New reply January 25, 2009
- 12 replies
- I haven't seen any direct focus on... Well, BMs. I've had chronic diarrhea for years and years but NOTHING like this. It comes on fast and strong and noisy. I had my gallbladder out a year ago and experienced ...
Harassment
- By pumpkintummy · New reply September 18, 2008
- 9 replies
- I have encountered some harassment at work and also abuse from manipulative people in my family. It seems everyone simply cannot believe that there are chronic diseases. People assume that you have issues ...
It's hard
- By edmund302 · New reply April 29, 2008
- 2 replies
- hi everyone i just found this group a few minutes ago and decided to join. i'm 19 and have had motility disorder for 3 years now, but just recently have i finally gone to the doctor for it. so far they ...
New Medical Insurance and Gastroparesis
- By DazeYaVoo · New reply April 21, 2008
- 2 replies
- Hi y'all. Just joined this group.... I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with getting new individual health insurance. I'm not talking about workplace group policies or changing jobs, but having ...
Bowel incontinence
- By serlin · New reply September 30, 2007
- 1 reply
- Found out in April I have lymphoma with a tumor at the base of my spine. Ironically, the cancer is 'highly treatable' and after some chemo I'm supposedly 'cancer free'. Only thing is, the nerve damage ...
