My fight with Gastropareisis by Ann Gunter
The beginning of April of 2016 , my stomach issues got worse and at that time no doctor of mine would even listen to my issues at all, they judge me and even put down in my chart that I was faking my symptoms. I was dealing with abdominal pain and nausea at that time, what I didn't know at that time that was just the beginning for me. In May my symptoms were nausea, dry heaving and abd pain . My Gastro doctor did a gastric Empting study test on me and it was normal but my symptoms kept on emerging . My weight start dropping as well, first it went from 170 to 150 my Gastro doctor wasn't shocked at all but she decided to do a upper GI just in case and of that was normal. By the end of 2016 my symptoms were weight loss ,nausea,dry heaving,throwing up and abd pain. I was being treated by pain management doctor In December he tried pain medicine first and that knocks my pain down from a 10 to a 6 . In January finally my GI doctor had no idea what I had , she redid tests and they came back normal. I started seeing another Gi in late January and he ran multiple tests on me , he didn't do a Gastric Empting Test on me though, my weight was 125 at that time I had lost over 40lbs at that time. Eating was a task to do every time I ate I regret it, they put me on marinlol at that time and it seemed to help my nausea some what. In March I got my diagnosis of Gastropareisis, I also had a feeding tube in at that time to help me with nutrition meant. vintage styled items to wear for cocktail party
In April my weight got less and my feeding tube was taken out because I couldn't handle any feeds. My New Gi tried me on Erythromycin which cause way too many side effects. Then they kept trying other medicines that didn't work on me. In June my Gastro doctor put me on Azithormycin that seemed to work for awhile but then it stopped working , I then lost more weight. I'm on Domperidone 10mg three times before meals and I have been on that medicine for two weeks in half and that doesn't seem to be helping my symptoms either. My Gastro doctor is repeating the Gastric Empting Study on me, I go for that test next Friday, if the medication is helping my stomach then my Gastro doctor said he might up the dose, if my stomach is still slow he will either do botox injections or the gastric stimulator. In the mean time a new symptom came up while I was in the hospital last time. Left side abd pain, I could handle all my symptoms before hand , but now I got to deal with both sides of my stomach hurting and nausea,dry heaving, my bowel movements vary daily, I'm trying to eat as much as I can but when I do either two things happens. The more I eat in calories, I have to right away to the restroom and it goes out of me or later on I throw it up and have intense pain after I eat now. What else can I do besides wait and hope for answers. I'm at 115 again in weight.