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Thanks @picowgirl & this is in regards to my 20yr old daughter whom was just diagnosed not even a year ago I believe. She just recently had what apparently was a really bad episode! She was vomiting, had terrible lower stomach cramping, had much diarrhea, back pain & continuous headache but only a low grade fever, never over 100.00 degrees, over the course of about 4-5 days. Prior to all these happenings, the week before she felt nauseated and didn't really have much of an appetite, she rarely does anymore; she has now lost over 6lbs in less than 2wks. and over the course of the past year lost over 30 some pounds. NO she's not a soda pop drinker, the kid LOVES water! After a few days, symptoms kept getting worse, things were coming out of her at both ends so-to-speak that I've never seen before. I took her to the ER; tests were ran and came back as NOTHING being wrong and they even of course tested for Covid which came back negative as well. We did a follow-up with her family physician the next day, again ran plenty of test and took in samples of what was coming out of her, which changed to blood when they got another sample there at the Lab and AGAIN - NOTHING! Only conclusion was it was all related to this Gastroparesis! Now we hear, there's NO CURE or medication to treat other than heartburn medication and they want her to set up an appointment with a GI doctor, again; though she doesn't get heartburn very often. I'm very concerned for multiple reasons, 1st of all, this is NOT my normal kid, I hate to see her sooooo sick and feel helpless. Secondly sounds like this is going to be a whole new lifestyle for her, so got on the internet and started doing research and trying to figure out a diet for her to follow. 3rd I'm very concerned, as for myself I have heartburn and then read that it's common for diabetics to get Gastroparesis as well, so that puts me in that category too, but I'll do the diet with her, whatever it takes! & lastly my mother too had heartburn all the time, long-short, she passed away from having Esophageal Cancer, which all started with much of these same symptoms 🙁