What is Gastroparesis?

Gastroparesis is also known as "delayed stomach emptying". It is where the stomach doesnt work to digest the foods you eat as quickly as they are supposed to, or at all.
Symptoms include feeling fullness after eating little, nausea, vomiting, etc.
It effects over 5 million people in america, yet very little is known about it. There is no cure, and it is a chronic illness.
Imagine the feeling of eating thanksgiving dinner times 5, then vomiting 10 times worse than your worst stomach flu, followed by extreme fatigue for days.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

tired

i havent done the daily diary because i had another flare up.  It was miserable, as always.  I've gotten very little sleep, felt completely exhausted, have eaten almost nothing, and no matter how much gatorade and juice i try to drink, i still feel dehydrated.  The headache, fatigue, and dizziness tells me so.

This morning on the today show a segment was done on a girl with gastroparesis.  They made it seem like some rare disease that almost no one gets, and that once diagnosed, all the girl needs is a simple surgery with a pacemaker put in and she's back to new and can eat whatever she wants.
Not true.  Ofcourse the media has to twist it to make it a happily ever after story.
Then, in the same breath, they go to the next segment, on food.
How tasteful (sarcasm and pun in one- give naomi credit for pun)

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