#gi disorders

[us-being-us2]

I have dysautonomia and gastroparesis, but can you vomit just from your resting heartratr spiking to like 150? Because I'm on a liquid diet and wasn't expecting a gastroparesis flare, and my heart rate just spiked to 150, and I got really nauseated and vomited right after, but there wasn't much in my tummy.

[eldrai]

Love looking up IBS because it's just like may cause [symptom doctors never mentioned was related] [symptom doctors never mentioned was related] [symptom doctors never mentioned was related] [symptom doctors never mentioned was related] and abdominal pain!

Like wow. Thanks. Glad I spent so much time as a literal child worrying there was something seriously wrong with me because I had other symptoms.

Anyway, here's a few symptoms in case it is ever useful to someone:

The ones you probably know

Constipation

Diarrhoea (including mucus)

Bloating

Abdominal pain/cramping

The ones you might know

Bloating

Nausea

Indigestion

The ones you probably don't

Headaches

Fatigue

Dysmenorrhoea (heavy periods)

Pelvic pain

Back pain

Interstitial cystitis + other bladder problems

Sleep disturbances

Joint pain

[likeawildthing]

I didn’t realize, when I was first diagnosed with a chronic gi disease, the huge “disability tax” owed on any kind of modified diet in money, energy, and time.

The time it takes to look up new recipes, shop at four stores for obscure or specialty ingredients, pay the exorbitant markup, only to bring them home and be too tired to make the thing, or anything. The emotional cost of not eating out, or enjoying holidays, or explaining, yet again, that it’s not a diet to lose weight, it’s to prevent serious illness. The impact to your body when you accidentally eat something you thought was safe. The financial cost of food that goes bad because you did buy it, but it tastes awful. Opportunity costs of making so much from scratch when a standard version could be picked up in a grocery store. The stress when a “safe” food start making you sick.

We are human beings who need food. It’s that simple . Food is not good or bad, or clean or dirty, but for some people it is safe or unsafe. But it’s still necessary for survival. And there is a real cost when you are constantly—multiple times a day—forced to navigate this choice matrix. It’s inescapable.

I’m not sad or depressed about it anymore, but I wasn’t aware of this before diagnosis and thought it might be important for others to hear.

[er-cryptid]

[cripple-cryptid]

So the surgical center that shoved a camera up my ass called yesterday. I guess the biopsy of whatever they did came back.

Fuck.

I have Barrett's Esophagus. Basically my stomach has sent so much acid into my esophagus that the cells are changing and they can eventually turn into cancer. Right now they aren't worried about it because it's early and we can keep an eye on it so it doesn't become cancerous. Add some extra supplements and I guess I'll be fine?

The kicker for this though is the fact that my maternal grandfather died from esophageal cancer that was caused by Barrett's. I asked if this can be genetic but I guess not. Just the reflux.

They also said that my stomach isn't emptying properly so guess who has to do a gastric emptying study? This guy.

Yaaaaay.

[ghoulslug]

[ehlers-danloscircus]

"Normal" people: Eating and enjoying veggies to stay regular.

Me with GI dysmotility: Poopin' the asteroid that murdered the dinosaurs because I decided one time that I missed green beans & mixed veggies too much to say no.

[followyourheartandkeepsmiling]

One of the joys of GI disorders is that everytime you have a bad day everyone's first question is "What did you eat?"

Nothing guys, my stomach is just like that.