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Anyone diagnosed with Gastroparesis?

Digestive Health | Last Active: Apr 10 5:06pm | Replies (204)

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Can you please share some of the foods that you can eat? I have SIBO, GP, and Kidney disease, with diabetes and IBS-D. It sure is a balancing act. Never know what will agree with me and also be healthy. I eat a lot of cold wild salmon, shredded chicken and egg salads, tuna fish, shrimp, scallops, cod, rockfish, oysters, lots of fish. Butter lettuce and berries. I just discovered sugar free apple pie, which has NO potassium!! Tried kale last night and I was in the bathroom all night. Argh...

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@mrssddr, sorry I am so late answering your question about some of the foods I can eat.

Please remember I also am type 2 diabetic and have stage 4 CKD so I have had to compromise a lot since diets for those chronic diseases conflict with each other.

At the height of my 1st gastroparesis flare-up I was in the hospital on clear liquids for 2 days then on the 3rd day a light meal of radioactive scrambled eggs and strawberry jam on toast for a gastric emptying study (I couldn't eat it all.) I also had an endoscopy and a colonoscopy the 4th day after being NPO the day before except for the bowel prep.

After I was discharged I could eat nothing for several days but drank Boost, clear juices, popsicles, clean jelly (like apple jelly,) clear vegetable broth (I'm a vegetarian except for free-range eggs and a minimal amount of dairy cooked in certain breads, etc.) and other liquids. I was already nutritionally challenged and not being able to eat had a very negative impact on my stamina/energy as well as cognition and mood.

A week later I was able to add a very few soft foods such as soft-scrambled or soft-boiled egg, reduced fat peanut butter, vegan ice cream, soft breads, small amounts of mashed potatoes, vegan yogurt, etc., along with Boost and the other foods mentioned above.

It took nearly a year of very slowly re-introducing GI-friendly foods and some backing off from those that didn't agree with me but today I am able to eat much better.

I generally have 1/2 serving of Boost for breakfast and 1/2 serving of yogurt or 1/2 Boost and 1 tbsp peanut butter plus 1/2 banana.

Mid-morning meal is 1/2 serving of reduced sodium V8 and 1/3 to 1/2 pkg Lance peanut butter crackers.

Lunch is peanut butter and jelly on a soft slider bun or 50 grams of ripe avocado and 1/2 tbsp lite mayo on a soft slider bun or sometimes egg salad (boiled egg mashed, pinch onion powder, 1 tbsp lite mayo) on soft slider bun.

Afternoon meal is 1/2 serving mango juice (no pulp) and 1/3 to 1/2 pkg PB crackers.

Dinner is another 1/2 Boost, 1/2 serving mashed potatoes or 61 grams baked potato without skin, 1/2 serving well-cooked carrots or well-cooked pureed beets. (Next week I will add a very small amount of potato salad I make with 61 grams of cubed baked potato and lite mayo plus a pinch of onion powder and 1 low-sodium no sugar added pickle slice-skin removed-chopped up to see if I can tolerate it; also will try a half-serving of cooked-to-mush spinach-since I need iron and B12-to see if I can tolerate that.)

HS diabetic snack is 1/3 to 1/2 pkg PB crackers and a popsicle, sometimes extra if blood sugar is too low before taking bedtime insulin.

Please know, I am not recommending any of the above for anyone else, it's just what has worked for me so far.