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Anyone experience gastroparesis post esophogectomy?
Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: Mar 15 6:11pm | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
@lionsfan, I wanted to follow up. How are you doing now? Have you been discharged from hospital?
@podrunner1 @aheid @ken82, along with @deedive1967 might also have some tips to share here about managing gastroparesis after treatment for esophageal cancer.
Geoff, have you been able to make changes to your eating habits that help to manage the gastroparesis, like smaller meals more often? Or other changes?
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As soon as I started to take Linzess it helped my (motility) gastroparisis and constipation/bloat by at least 90%. It was a wonder drug for me, I was miserable and almost immobile due to this condition. It's my experience after taking it for 8 yrs that it has trained my modified digestive system to work on it's own again.
I'm back home doing pretty well, but soft foods for now. My Doctor thinks the immunotherapy treatment may have caused the gastroparesis. This would be rare, but possible. I'm hoping it isn't immunotherapy as I want to continue that. I have follow up in a week with my Doctor. I stopped the Optivo treatment about two weeks ago and have improved immensely on the gastroparesis. Thanks for following up.
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I'm out of the hospital after almost a week's stay. I put myself on a liquid only diet to see if the gastroparesis subsides such that I can move back to a normal diet again. I'm going in the hospital two or three times per week for IV hydration. Wish me luck.