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Kellye C · 10-21-2008, 09:10 PM

I am not a medical professional but I do have a decent knowledge of medical conditions either due to my own history or that of friends or loved ones. I wanted to be a nurse but have too weak of a stomach (no pun intended)

Anyway, there is a condition called gastroparesis (sp?) you may want to research. I don't know much about it except one of the symptoms is that the stomach fails to empty. I have seen members discuss it on a chronic pain and invisible diseases message board I am a member of and thought about that when I read your post.

I also have some personal experience to share on this. I had a period of almost a year of constant nausea back in the 90s and at the time I also had GERD and IBS. I lived off of phenergan. My gastro didn't know what to make of it. I had an upper and lower gi that were negative and some other tests and then came the gastric emptying study. Back then they had me eat an egg salad sandwich with radioactive particles in it and then lay perfectly still on a table while a huge camera sat right above me taking one picture a minute for an hour. At the end of an hour only seven percent of the food had moved through when it should have been about 70 percent! They gave me a diagnosis of gastric hypomotility and said it was pretty rare. They started me out on Reglan to empty the stomach and it helped some but then they came out with a drug called Propulsid. For me this was a wonderdrug and it emptied my stomach and gave me my life back. I ended up having weightloss surgery and the re-routing of everything solved my issues. Good thing because the FDA pulled Propulsid.

Anyway, from what I was told it isn't real common but maybe you could check out the term gastric hypomotility and current treatment options and maybe even look at the gastroparesis (sp?) thing just to see the symptoms and if they match.

I hope something I have suggested will prove to be of use in your quest for answers!! Sometimes its just trying to figure out where to START the search for answers that is the hardest or at least it was for me when I started suspecting fibromyalgia.

PM me if you have any questions about my experiences that I didn't cover here and best wishes!

Hugs,
Kellye

10-21-2008, 09:10 PM	#6 (permalink)
Kellye C Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Highlands, TX Posts: 1,164 Blog Entries: 1	I am not a medical professional but I do have a decent knowledge of medical conditions either due to my own history or that of friends or loved ones. I wanted to be a nurse but have too weak of a stomach (no pun intended) Anyway, there is a condition called gastroparesis (sp?) you may want to research. I don't know much about it except one of the symptoms is that the stomach fails to empty. I have seen members discuss it on a chronic pain and invisible diseases message board I am a member of and thought about that when I read your post. I also have some personal experience to share on this. I had a period of almost a year of constant nausea back in the 90s and at the time I also had GERD and IBS. I lived off of phenergan. My gastro didn't know what to make of it. I had an upper and lower gi that were negative and some other tests and then came the gastric emptying study. Back then they had me eat an egg salad sandwich with radioactive particles in it and then lay perfectly still on a table while a huge camera sat right above me taking one picture a minute for an hour. At the end of an hour only seven percent of the food had moved through when it should have been about 70 percent! They gave me a diagnosis of gastric hypomotility and said it was pretty rare. They started me out on Reglan to empty the stomach and it helped some but then they came out with a drug called Propulsid. For me this was a wonderdrug and it emptied my stomach and gave me my life back. I ended up having weightloss surgery and the re-routing of everything solved my issues. Good thing because the FDA pulled Propulsid. Anyway, from what I was told it isn't real common but maybe you could check out the term gastric hypomotility and current treatment options and maybe even look at the gastroparesis (sp?) thing just to see the symptoms and if they match. I hope something I have suggested will prove to be of use in your quest for answers!! Sometimes its just trying to figure out where to START the search for answers that is the hardest or at least it was for me when I started suspecting fibromyalgia. PM me if you have any questions about my experiences that I didn't cover here and best wishes! Hugs, Kellye __________________ *Kellye C.* *Sobriety Date 8/8/04 - By God's Grace and A.A.*