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Esophagus issues
Hello I'm not sure this is where I should ask or not but I need help understanding what all this is telling me and if...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Jan 31 8:10am
Mic tube, GERD & GI's suggestion??
Hello, my dad has a mic tube b/c of oral cancer reconstruction. He believes the excess mucus in his throat is because of GERD. The...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Aug 28, 2024
diagnosed with Mobile cecum and redundant colon
For several years now I have been experiencing severe pain in my lower right abdomen that only lasts a minute or too and then goes...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: 5 days ago
Gastroparesis or slow modility colon
I was diagnosed with gastroparesis with one doctor and he sent me to a bigger university for a pacemaker. The next university said it was...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Jan 13, 2024
Multiple GI issues
I have been adding new diagnoses to my already numerous this past six months. My former gi dr just thru meds at me mostly. So...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Feb 9, 2024
SIBO and Rapid Gastric Emptying or Dumping Syndrome
Does anyone els have these 2 diagnoses together?I read more about gastropheris accompanied with SIBO.I am 9 months into this sickness triggered by food /water...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Aug 15, 2023
Hiatal Hernia and Gastric Ulcer
18 months ago my hiatal hernia was surgically fixed. Have since been told the motility of my esophagus is not good. A gastroscopy also revealed...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Dec 13, 2024
What alternative milks work for you?
I've always loved milk but within the past six years have become lactose intolerant. I can eat ice cream and cheese but very small portions....
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: 4 days ago
How to Wean Off MiraLax
I've been on MiraLAX every day for several (5-ish) years and am anxious to get my system functioning naturally again if possible. I tried really...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Aug 20, 2024
Importance of diagnosis: MALS? Gastroparesis?
About two months ago, my 16 yr old daughter (who has hEDS) began experiencing severe dizziness, fatigue, and nausea, making it difficult for her to...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Jan 8 2:22pm
Esophageal disorder - don’t know what to eat
Hi I’m a 39 year old woman and I’ve got ineffective esophageal motility disorder, with spasms. My manometry showed 90% failed swallows. I can eat...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Aug 15, 2023
What to Eat When I Don't Feel Like Eating?
Hi, I'm having motility issues and am trying to figure out the best way to cope. Most days aren't terrible, but some days I get...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Oct 12, 2023
Gastric Bypass after Nissen Failures
I had a LINX in 2020, a Nissen in 2021, a Nissen re-do and a pylorplasty (for gastroparisis) in 2023. All of these have failed....
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Oct 2, 2023
Just Miserable
Ughh, I have been having such a tough time. Almost a year ago, I had a partial colon resection and rectopexy. I was recovering well...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: May 7, 2023
Stomach pain and bloating for 4 months after eating frozen pizza
Basically four months ago (April 9th) I ate a severely undercooked frozen pizza and have felt like something is stuck in my stomach ever since....
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Sep 5, 2024
Trying to find answers after cecopexy - tortuous colon - mobile cecum
It’s been 7 years since my cecopexy. The first couple of years I felt quite well. I had suffered from constipation, bloating, cramping and Auden...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Apr 7, 2023
Digestive disorders after heavy lifting
Started out as a pinching pain in lower left abdomen after lifting a motor at work 6 years ago after 3 days no bowel movements...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Jan 13 5:05pm
Need to get off miralax
gastroenterologist is no help, he says it's fine to take every day. I'm a healthy 75 except for hemorrhoid I got that has put me...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Oct 10, 2024
Any ideas on what having fatty stools is indicative of?
I am unable to have a bowel movement on my own, have a rectocele, had stool in my vagina, and an inability to digest food....
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Apr 6, 2023
Gagging + coughing w/saliva only (possible cricopharyngeal spasm?)
Newbie here… I’ve been to too many doctors and specialists (and even tertiary centers), and nobody has a clue what’s going on. Because my case...
Support Group: Digestive Health
Last active: Jul 3, 2023