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excessive daytime sleepiness
- By horsecrazygal · New reply 12:47 am
- Discussion in Inability to eat · 7 replies
- Anyone else have this? I have trouble staying awake throughout the day. I don't sleep through the night very well due to bloating and abdominal pain. Some nights I only get 3 hours, others I get 6 hours ...
Limbo
- By GP-Mom · New reply yesterday at 11:56 pm
- Journal · 2 replies
- I saw my gastroenterologist today and she basically told me that, for now, there aren't a lot of options for me with regards to my gastroparesis. My j-tube may have flipped (AGAIN), and I can barely keep ...
My 8 year old son needs help!!!
wait and see
- By margamouse · New reply yesterday at 10:51 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- Wait and see is difficult for me. I have a tendency to look ahead and prepare for what I may face. So, trying not to worry about the possibility that my entire tract has slowed greatly and more to what ...
Anemia
- By kc5rnk · New reply yesterday at 10:47 pm
- Discussion in Coping with chronic illness · 10 replies
- Has anyone else had problems with anemia with their gastroparesis? I recently had to be hospitalized and have a blood transfusion due to my very low hemoglobin and hematocrit. My PCP believes it is going ...
GI Disorders / Rosacea
- By MaryPatRose · New reply yesterday at 9:28 pm
- Discussion in Understanding · 6 replies
- I have both GI Disorders (IBS) and Rosacea. The IBS I have had for many years, I just learned about the Rosacea a few days ago when I went to my Dermatologist, I felt like my face was on fire. I wash ...
botox and pyloroplasty for gastroparesis
- By shellshe2 · New reply yesterday at 9:22 pm
- Discussion in Open discussion · 7 replies
- my doctor has suggested try botox and then if it works go ahead and have the pyloroplasty surgery has anyone every had this and if so could you give me your opinion on it.. thanks ...
Warning about Charcoal Tablets! BEWARE
- By Jeremiah2912 · New reply yesterday at 9:17 pm
- Journal · 2 replies
- To start off I am not as bad as some of the others on here. I have severe GP according to my Gastric Emptying Study. I do not throw up and can still eat mushy and every once in a while soft solids, so ...
Can GP Disappear
- By pam44 · New reply yesterday at 9:10 pm
- Discussion in Understanding · 13 replies
- I have idiopathic GP...I went to the mayo clinic about 3 weeks ago and got a confirmed diagnoses of GP , the day I was traveling home I got extremely ill...got home and went in the hospital...they gave ...
Pain under my rib cage
- By Sarahbear1982 · New reply yesterday at 9:05 pm
- Discussion in Pain issues · 8 replies
- I am a 29 your old woman and I have been having a lot of pain under my rib cage. it starts underneath my breasts and its under my ribs as if it were like inside of my ribs. it also makes it difficult ...
Is It Motility Disorder?
- By EFBS · New reply yesterday at 8:21 pm
- Journal · 3 replies
- My life changed dramatically in a beautiful seaside town in New England back in August 2011. While on vacation, I woke up in the beautiful ocean side home with my large extended family and I was sick ...
Sudden onset of GP
- By SamD · New reply yesterday at 7:42 pm
- Journal · 34 replies
- Who else on here had a sudden onset of GP with NO digestive problems before? I am trying to figure out how many people literally just wake up one day and couldn't eat. This happened to me and it seems ...
Social Security
- By ElysiumC · New reply yesterday at 7:38 pm
- Journal · 2 replies
- So I have an appointment with a Social Security doctor for a mental health exam. Have any of you had to go through this ...
In hospital again...
- By Salfran · New reply yesterday at 7:10 pm
- Journal · 57 replies
- I didn't open my bowels for 5 days despite the prune juice. So the nurses suggested I have a small doses of pico prep to help. I did and I had a BM and then my pain on left side increased dramatically ...
MIRALAX AND KIDNEY DISEASE???
- By GAILRD · New reply yesterday at 5:34 pm
- Discussion in Open discussion · 27 replies
- IVE BEEN READING ALOT OF DISCUSSION ON THIS SITE ABOUT THE SIDE EFFECTS OF MIRALAX. I ALSO BELONG TO THE NEPHCURE SITE AS MY CHILD IS A KIDNEY PATIENT. THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME SUSPICION ABOUT MIRALAX AND ...
Need Advice Re: Small Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth
- By lizardgirl · New reply yesterday at 5:17 pm
- Discussion in Living with an invisible illness · 37 replies
- I would like to know how others have been diagnosed with and treated for SBBO. I was diagnosed based on my risk factors for SBBO; no actual diagnostic tests have ever been done. I don't even know if there ...
Bile duct cancer
- By kathrine00021 · Posted yesterday at 4:55 pm
- Discussion in Open discussion · 0 replies
- My father who is 66 was diagnosed with bile duct cancer about a year and half ago. It was a very small tumor at the time and he had the whipple procedure to remove the cancer. There was no cancer anywhere ...
Pregnant with a Gastric Pacemaker
- By carlykb829 · New reply yesterday at 4:54 pm
- Discussion in Open discussion · 3 replies
- I just found out that I'm pregnant, and my husband and I are thrilled! I have a gastric pacemaker-have had it for 10 years-and I am wanting to connect with anyone who has any experience being pregnant ...
STANFORD OR CLEVELAND????
- By oshaughnessy · New reply yesterday at 12:05 pm
- Discussion in Caregivers · 13 replies
- I have been on Inspire for over a year now and in that time I have seen many, many, many GI Drs and motility specialists, small town clinics and major universities and yes even a few visits to the mighty ...
Where to get mosapride?
- By SamD · New reply yesterday at 11:54 am
- Journal · 8 replies
- Can anyone tell me where to order this ...
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