I was diagnosed with Delayed Gastric Emptying or gastroparesis, how can I cure this?

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I have been on medication that has not worked...including Domperidone
Personal accounts of overcoming this would help and outside methods would be useful as well....thanks
Hi Bthomas2,

This is a fancy word for a slower than usual stomach. All the things that give people diarrhoea will help to speed up your stomach. I hope you do not live in the US. It will mean big medical bills.

Here are some suggestions;

1. Keep yourself hydrated. Dehydration will make your condition worse.
2. Remain Physically Active. Physical activity will speed up your gut.
3. Spicy foods will speed up your gut.
4. Fibrous foods will help too.
5. Good, regular bowel habit.
6. Use laxatives sparingly. They tend to desensitize the gut and after repeated use they become less effective.
7. Avoid medications which cause constipation: Tylenol, antihistamines, aluminium preparations etc.
8. When travelling keep to your bowel routine.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

http://healthmad.com/aging/constipation-management-and-causes-in-adults/

http://healthmad.com/children/constipation-in-children-self-learn-series-8/  (+ info)

Good food for person with Gastroparesis?

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I have gastroparesis. It means my stomach takes 90 minutes to empty when a normal person's stomach empties in 30 minutes. I have to eat small meals that are typically low in fat to keep my stomach from hurting. I'm a picky eater and love fruit and veggies (but only like them raw and I'm not supposed to eat them raw it will irritate my stomach) So I need some help here.
You first have to determine what caused this problem. The Vagus nerve, according to doctors, is what causes the food to move through the intestines. This is a reaction diabetes can cause.

The primary reason food does not move quickly is low HCL. When you have low HCL, the pyloric sphincter will stay closed because it is waiting for the chyme in the stomach to reach a low pH of 3.0 or less. Eating lots of veggies and fruit and no meat will contribute to this problem because meat is what the stomach primarily is designed to break down with pepsin that stimulates HCL production. Our bodies were not designed to eat high carbohydrate diets. Primitive man ate huge amounts of animal fats and little carbs in most cultures around the world. He did not get cavities, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. Our genetics have only changed 0.1% in the last 12,000 years and when we eat all this refined sugar, high carbohydrates, low fat diets, it wreaks havoc with our digestive system. These so called "food experts" are nothing more than fancy marketing techniques created by high profit food companies and are promoting their products, not health.

If you have any tattoos, scars, or trauma that has happened to you, especially on the front of your torso to your head, this will sedate the parietal cells in your stomach and you won't be producing HCL efficiently. Hypochloridia is a condition that happens when not enough HCL is produced and creates this same condition.

Low fat diets are terrible for you because the body needs fats. If you eat a low fat diet, the gall bladder is way under used and the bile gets viscous and not watery like it is supposed to be. By eating lots of carbs (sugar & veggies & fruits), you do not give the liver what it needs to produce the bile. All your steroid hormones, bile production, and general health will suffer greatly. It is just stupid advice to not eat fats. It is important that you eat the right kinds of fats though, or you will damage the body. Raw foods contain lots of enzymes that contribute to good acid production. If you are not eating a lot of SALT, you will be prone to hypochloridia and not produce enough stomach acid. The CL- ion in the HCL comes from SALT! These low salt diets are ridiculous and are not founded on good science. Salt does not raise your blood pressure and there is not one study that has shown this is the case. Do NOT eat the salt you buy in those Mausoleums where dead food is stored (local grocery) because that salt is loaded with dangerous chemicals and has had all the nutrition bleached out of it. Get "pink sea salt" that is loaded with trace minerals and is good for you. You need to eat 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of this each day. This will up regulate your HCL production naturally.

You need to also go to: www.healthline.cc (not .com) and purchase the following:

Betaine HCL --- take 2 if you weigh less than 150, 3 if you weigh more than 150 AFTER each meal

Activator -- take 1 after each meal

Take 2 quantum digest DURING the meal.

Probiotic -- take 1 in the a.m. and 1 in the p.m.

If you find that you are having problems still, you should purchase the Stomach Complex from the same company and take 2 to 3 of these during each meal. This side steps the issue of interference fields that may be sedating the parietal cells from working correctly.

When you get enough stomach acid in the stomach, you should find that your digestion will move more quickly and you won't get that bloated feeling. Unless you had a severe trauma or a severe diabetes reaction, the vagus nerve issue is most likely a bad diagnosis. The low HCL should solve the problem when you take the above goodies.

Stay totally away from ALL vegetable oils, except Olive Oil. These very unstable, polyunsaturated oils are rancid when you buy them and they polymerize when slightly heated from the "cis" configuration to the "trans" configuration to form trans fats and your body cannot make endocrine hormones if you are deficient in good fats.

The correct food ratio should be: 40% carbs, 30% fats, 30% protein for each meal. The 30% fats should be broken down into: 60% monounsaturated fats (olive oil); 30% saturated fats from (butter made from raw cream - not pasteurized, coconut oils, beef from grass fed animals only, not commercial grain fed from feed lots), 10% polyunsaturated oils that have a 1:1 ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 fatty acids.

You can get raw, fermented vegetables that are very good for you at the following site: www.healingmovement.net or call them at: (310) 829-4283. They sell organic vegetables that have been fermented. Very, very good for you. 1/2 cup with each meal and you will see a great difference.

Also, avoid ALL HYDROGENATED OILS and ALL SOY products unless they are fermented like soy sauce and miso.

good luck to you  (+ info)

Has anyone been diagnosed with Gastroparesis with unknown etiology?

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I have been diagnosed with Gastroparesis. I have been told that gastroparesis is mostly found in people with diabetes. However, I do not have diabetes.
This girl has (see link)  (+ info)

Does anyone out there have gastroparesis?

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Have been diagnosed with gastroparesis. Does anyone else suffer from this disease?Would like feedback
Gastroparesis literally translated means “stomach paralysis”. Gastroparesis is a digestive disorder in which the motility of the stomach is either abnormal or absent. In health, when the stomach is functioning normally, contractions of the stomach help to crush ingested food and then propel the pulverized food into the small intestine where further digestion and absorption of nutrients occurs. When the condition of gastroparesis is present the stomach is unable to contract normally, and therefore cannot crush food nor propel food into the small intestine properly. Normal digestion may not occur.

Causes of Gastroparesis

There are many causes of gastroparesis. Diabetes is one of the most common causes for gastroparesis. Other causes include infections, endocrine disorders, connective tissue disorders like scleroderma, neuromuscular diseases, idiopathic (unknown) causes, cancer, radiation treatment applied over the chest or abdomen, some forms of chemotherapy, and surgery of the upper intestinal tract. Any surgery on the esophagus, stomach or duodenum may result in injury to the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is responsible for many sensory and motor (muscle) responses of the intestine. In health, the vagus sends neurotransmitter impulses to the smooth muscle of the stomach that results in contraction and forward propulsion of gastric contents. If the vagus is injured during surgery gastric emptying may not occur. Symptoms of postoperative gastroparesis may develop immediately or even years after a surgery is performed.

Medications may cause delayed gastric emptying, mimicking the symptoms of gastroparesis; this is especially common with narcotic pain medications, calcium channel blockers and certain antidepressant medications (table 1). It is important to have the names of all your medications recorded and with you when you see a physician for evaluation of gastrointestinal symptoms. People with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia may also develop gastroparesis. Fortunately, gastric emptying resumes and symptoms improve when food intake and eating schedules normalize.  (+ info)

anyone with gastroparesis know of a natural, prescripton, inexpensive way to treat the nausea?

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I don't have this condition but I have read that ginger is effective in treating nausea. It is boiled and then the tea is drunk. Sometimes honey is added for taste. You can also obtain peppermint oil from a health food store. Depending on the brand and quality, it can be under $10. It is added to water and drunk. The best brand I have used is Young Living. It is somewhere between $40-$50 a bottle but you only need to use one drop and it is powerful!  (+ info)

Does gastroparesis ever return?

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I don't really know if anyone else has any knowledge regarding gastroparesis [paralysis of the stomach motility] but I struggled immensely with it, and lost over 30 pounds. After trying numerous medicines, I believe that it is fixed, but my question is will it ever come back, or, is it truely gone? Thanks in advance!
I am struggling badly with gastroparesis - mine isn't responding to medications or other treatments and I've lost around 20kg (45 pounds), to the point that I am close to skeletal.

I don't know about recurrence of symptoms - I would guess that if you got a GI upset, or even ate a large meal or food that didn't agree with you, that it would possibly flare your symptoms up but that really is just a guess. For your sake, I hope not - it's a horrible, horrible thing to deal with.  (+ info)

i have gastroparesis so i really need to be carefull on what i eat.so i want to maintain my heath i dont work ?

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so i started taking whey protein to keep my weight maintain,is taking this protein shake will maintain my weight and make me gain weight or what.
Whey protein is nothing more than a protein supplement that has fewer calories than a Slim Fast. Because it is low in calories, you are unlikely to maintain or gain weight. However, if you are working out (which you should be doing), you will find that you will increase muscle mass and therefore weight because the whey protein will help you...provided you're getting protein from other sources as well.   (+ info)

Do you have gastroparesis? If you do please tell me about it as I have it and need some facts ...?

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Any information about gastroparesis from someone who knows about it? Do you have it? How are you physically? How has your life changed?
I've answered your other question, but shall answer this one as well. My gastroparesis is at the very severe end of the scale, but has made me very, very ill. I'm 5'4 and at my worst weighed barely 30kg because I could keep nothing down at all. Even now, when I'm probably the best I've been in a year, I only weigh 35kg and I still have days running where I vomit up absolutely everything, where I'm in severe pain, etc. That said, I have more than one severe chronic health problem (I also suffer from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) and I suspect that the two complicate each other.  (+ info)

Gastric pacemaker for treatment for gastroparesis?

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My doctor is recommending that I see a specialist for my gastroparesis to get a gastric pacemaker implanted, does anyone have any experience with this? I've found some sites on the internet about it but I was hoping for some personal experiences. I don't have diabetes, my doctor thinks I developed it from a lap band surgery gone bad.
I don't NEED advice about weight loss surgery. Please read the question before responding! I have gastroparesis FROM the weight loss surgery that went horribly wrong, I have lost enough weight! I"m trying to repair my stomach.
well i guess nobody here has an experience with a gastric pacemaker 'cause nobody has answered yet..all i can say is goodluck and hope your stomach goes back to normal!  (+ info)

I have gastroparesis but no diarrhea?

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My symtoms are as follows

Nausea
early satiety
pain in my stomach

Have I been misdiagnosed? I never vomit, or diarrhea.
Your symptoms could be related to many things. Gastroparesis is when there is a delay in emptying the stomach. It is associated with nausea/vomiting after eating and early satiety. Diarrhea is not associated with gastroparesis. It is usually caused by abnormalities in the nerves (neuropathy) that supply the stomach and the most common cause is diabetic neuropathy. So if you have diabetes then it could be gastroparesis. If you do not have diabetes then it is highly unlikely it is gastroparesis. I think the more likely cause for your symptoms is stomach irritation, called gastritis. Other possibilities include stomach ulcers, gallbladder disease, and pancreatic disease. You should see your doctor to have this evaluated if you have not already. Gastroparesis is diagnosed with a gastric emptying study in which they have you drink some contrast and they monitor how quickly it empties your stomach by taking X-rays. Unfortunately there are not many good treatments for gastroparesis. The most commonly used medication is Metoclopramide (Reglan), but there are concerns over it's long term use. Talk to your doctor and good luck.  (+ info)

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