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Gastroparesis or psychosomatic chronic nausea
- By Leeandy · New reply yesterday at 11:59 pm
- Discussion in CIP - Testing · 8 replies
- I have kind of a rough history of the symptoms of GP and I am going to finally get tested for it next month. Please tell me if this sounds typical or if maybe I am just nuts - okay, I have anxiety disorder ...
Gastroparesis & Depression
- By Brklan · New reply yesterday at 6:22 pm
- Discussion in Gastroparesis - Treatment options · 11 replies
- Hello. My mother was diagnosed w/ GP in October 2011. With just a quick background, she was on Zoloft for 12 years. She was in her 50's and decided that she was getting older and wanted to be more "natural ...
Gastric Neurostimulator
- By TiffanySara · New reply yesterday at 6:12 pm
- Journal · 18 replies
- Yesterday, I had a doctor’s appointment with Dr. Flores. He increased my domperidone to 20mg four times a day. He said that's as high as he would go. He also gave me a drug to try, Kytril (Granisetron ...
feeding tube unplugging
- By maangier · New reply yesterday at 4:34 pm
- Discussion in Gastroparesis - Treatment options · 3 replies
- I am having problems with my feeding tube dislodging from my jejunostomy tube. You can plug the two tubes together and watch the tube (from the feeding bag) push it's self out. Like there is pressure ...
gastroparesis and build up of toxins
- By maangier · New reply yesterday at 3:51 pm
- Discussion in Gastroparesis - Treatment options · 2 replies
- Has anyone been given Xifaran for a build up of toxins. I have been on a j-tube for a year now. Since the treatment is over I have been so sick... I talked to the GI and he has put me back on Xifaran ...
My life of medical problems
- By Infernali · New reply yesterday at 3:30 pm
- Journal · 2 replies
- Since joing this group it has been apparent from reading the stories of people that I am not suffering as much as some on here. I have a long history of medical issues all starting from an operation I ...
Stupid insurance company!!
- By Cindylouwhoo · New reply yesterday at 2:59 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- I am still waiting on my IV steroids, which both my rheumatologist and internal med doc think I need. I have been on steroids for so long, I am dependent on them and don't make my own stress hormones ...
Gastric Stimulator Turning Off On Its Own?!
- By katienyc · New reply yesterday at 2:32 pm
- Discussion in Gastroparesis - Treatment options · 1 reply
- Hi All, I have had the gastric stimulator since last November and for the most part it has been an amazing treatment - i've had a significant reduction of my symptoms. This past month though I had surgery ...
Question about Botox (had it done yesterday)
- By KerstinB · New reply yesterday at 9:24 am
- Journal · 12 replies
- Hi everybody, I have a question about Botox injections. I had this done for the first time yesterday and the doctor has been a bit vague about what to expect, only that I am going back to him in two weeks ...
Doctors can be so annoying.
- By geckogirl · New reply yesterday at 4:17 am
- Journal · 12 replies
- I saw my PCP yesterday and he said he isn't comfortable prescribing phenergan IM without me talking to my GI doctor. I know my GI doctor won't do it. That's just how he is. I have been so tired since ...
CLEVELAND OR STANFORD
- By oshaughnessy · New reply yesterday at 12:10 am
- Discussion in CIP - Treatment options · 3 replies
- STANFORD OR CLEVELAND???? 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 ...
Warning about Charcoal Tablets! BEWARE
- By Jeremiah2912 · New reply May 19, 2012
- Journal · 8 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 ...
Sudden onset of GP
- By SamD · New reply May 18, 2012
- Journal · 46 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 ...
Upper Endoscopy With Botox
- By Sherri460 · New reply May 18, 2012
- Discussion in Gastroparesis - Treatment options · 2 replies
- Last week I had a procedure done that was an Upper Endoscopy with Pyloric Dilation and Pyloric Botox. I was wondering if anyone here has had this done? My GI told me it would take about two weeks before ...
Update - psychologist and new consultant
- By cmyk · New reply May 18, 2012
- Journal · 5 replies
- I made a video update of my most recent meeting with my consultant and where I'm at :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Ly77TCp V8 ...
Please share if you have a baby with CIP
- By claire_paul · New reply May 18, 2012
- Discussion in CIP - Newly diagnosed · 7 replies
- My baby boy has been diagnosed with a pseudo obstruction at 3 months old. Desperate to find parents who have experienced this ...
Limbo
- By GP-Mom · New reply May 17, 2012
- Journal · 3 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 ...
I'm still new but just an update
- By Sunraye · Posted May 17, 2012
- Discussion in Living with gastroparesis or CIP · 0 replies
- Things have not been going well. I was getting in the shower the other day and felt a strange pain in my side. I looked down and the tube was on the ground. So of course I go into panic mode cause od ...
Does anyone really know how the stomach works????
- By stillhungry4 · Posted May 17, 2012
- Discussion in Gastroparesis - Treatment options · 0 replies
- I have asked several docs several times what does it mean when when the stomach feels as though it has an alien in it? Kicking, gurgling, cramping in the lower stomach which kind of feeling like a menstral ...
GP and Gastric Reflux
- By Mumof3boys · New reply May 17, 2012
- Discussion in Living with gastroparesis or CIP · 6 replies
- Hi, My son was diagnosed with GP yesterday. He has been suffering with Gastric Reflux (Mainly regertation, not so much heart burn because he is on medication that helps with this) . It was because of ...
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