@1950 i don’t know what MCTD is - but I do have Gastroparesis. Here’s part of what I posted on this thread a while back:
5. After much trial and error, I now eat at least 6 times a day – more like snacks than meals. I eat slowly and chew every thing down to nothing before swallowing.
6. I do not eat FIBROUS foods. (At first I avoided all fiber. But when my doc gave me the go ahead to try adding quick oats and iceberg lettuce to my diet, I started trying more things.)
7. This is my definition of whether or not a food is FIBROUS: If I can chew and chew and it almost turns to liquid in my mouth, it is not FIBROUS and I will eat it. However if I chew and chew and it still there is still texture in my mouth, it is FIBROUS and I do not eat it.
8. I steam the hell out of vegetables so that they melt in my mouth – Brussels sprouts for example. (I love broccoli too but no matter how long I steam it, it remains too fibrous for me to eat.)
9. I take domperidone twice a day. My prescription says to take it 4 times a day but I only take it twice a day. (I call domperidone my illegal drug from Canada!)
10. I take a probiotic twice a day.

I used to have a problem with constipation and took colace twice a day. But since I figured out I can eat foods high in fiber as long as they are not fibrous, that problem stopped.

I used to have a problem with sudden severe stomach pain with simultaneous diarrhea and vomiting. But since my gall bladder was removed, that problem stopped. (I will forever be thankful to the doc who decided to test my gall bladder function! Usually test results of 35 or greater indicate normal function. But my result of 93 was crazy high and not normal at all! Gall bladder removed! Life improved!)