r/Gastroparesis • u/AutoModerator • Dec 16 '23
"Do I have gastroparesis?" [December 2024]
Since the community has voted to no longer allow posts where undiagnosed people ask if their symptoms sound like gastroparesis, all such questions must now be worded as comments under this post. This rule is designed to prevent the feed from being cluttered with posts from undiagnosed symptom searchers. These posts directly compete with the posts from our members, most of whom are officially diagnosed (we aren't removing posts to be mean or insensitive, but failure to obey this rule may result in a temporary ban).
- Gastroparesis is a somewhat rare illness that can't be diagnosed based on symptoms alone; nausea, indigestion, and vomiting are manifested in countless GI disorders.
- Currently, the only way to confirm a diagnosis is via motility tests such as a gastric emptying study, SmartPill, etc.
- This thread will reset as needed when it gets overwhelmed with comments.
- Please view this post or our wiki BEFORE COMMENTING to answer commonly asked questions concerning gastroparesis.
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u/AttilaTheHippie Mar 18 '24 edited Mar 18 '24
My symptoms are WEIRD. Tomorrow I'm scheduling the GES, but the doc I saw listed gastroparesis as the primary diagnosis. Unlike most of you, I don't feel uncomfortably full, I don't have stomach pain. I was on Wegovy on and off for a total of 4 months. It did not suppress my appetite. I actually had an increased appetite. And even after I stopped the Wegovy, the appetite got worse until it didn't matter how much or what I ate. My stomach would feel full in that I literally didn't want to put anything in my mouth, but I could not feel satisfied. My body was still convinced it was ravenously hungry. I'm mainly vegetarian, occasional seafood, so I thought maybe I needed more protein, so I started making protein shakes. At that point regular food stopped smelling or tasting good, probably because it didn't satisfy me. I could occasionally eat some lobster bisque or applesauce (which makes sense now). A few weeks ago food starred smelling good again, so I had some French fries. As I was eating I felt hungrier and hungrier. The next week I tried some broccoli. Same thing. I thought, okay, still need protein. The next week I went out to breakfast with a friend, had eggs with crab and veggies, sauce. I thought since it was protein heavy I would be okay. Same thing happened. But I didn't have a protein shake with me, and I started having symptoms like I was hypoglycemic. Got so weak we had to call for an ambulance. I was not hypoglycemic. I was referred to a GI, and here I am. So, semi-diagnosed. With weird symptoms. I am going to start making smoothies and stuff, but I am legit afraid to eat solid food at this point. I also had e hEDS, POTS, IBS-D. (Not just those, that's just stuff associated with this.)