I have not had it, but my mom has suffered with it severely the last 10 years or so. Ironically, Cleveland Clinic took over the hospital near us and she was referred to a satellite hospital of theirs in Cleveland Brookpark. She had a same day surgery to release the sphincter at the bottom of the stomach. When I say night and day difference!! Praise Jesus for giving someone the knowledge because she doesn’t vomit every day and every time she eats anymore. She just had it at the beginning of the month, but I was able to take her out today to shop with my hubby and granddaughter. We even stopped for a bite to eat. She was told it was due to her diabetes which resulted from years of prednisone usage. She was just diagnosed with lupus in 2018 . We were diagnosed weeks apart. Don’t suffer in silence if you can try a simple same day surgery for it .❤️

I was experiencing terrible heartburn, bloating, trapped gas, and stomach distention. At night it was like I was 7 months pregnant. My stomach would make so much noise it was embarrassing. It sounded like I was passing gas but inside my stomach. At the time I was following Weight Watchers to lose weight so I was eating quite healthy and had been for quite a while. This included many fruits and vegetables, low carb, high fiber, high protein diet. I was careful of processed foods due to inflammation and doing a lot of what would seem to be the right things. As it got worse I was gagging a lot and finding it difficult to eat. I never expected to receive such a diagnosis.

Though overwhelmed at first by the diet plan, I have found that I am feeling better now that changed my diet. If you have not had a GI consultation I would recommend it and ask them to include an endoscopy and maybe the GI transit study which would show the delayed food in the stomach which would cause excess acid. Let me know what happens.

Lupus causes loads of stomach and upper gi tract problems.

OMG! I just looked up esophageal dysmotility. Is THAT what was causing the lump in my throat that made it hard to eat and the terrible pain/heartburn after eating?!? 😳

Thanks for your feedback! I guess the most important thing is to get enough nutrition. Take a look at the FODMAP list of foods too. I was given this list to find the foods that irritate the digestive system. I tend to have IBS and noticed that even following the gastroparesis diet I am still having problems. It is overwhelming to try to combine both plans, but the GI doc I saw yesterday thinks the problem is more about my esophageal dysmotility and FODMAP foods. Like you, though, I am much better since eating small amounts of easily digestible foods.