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I was wondering if anyone here has trouble with diabetic gastroparesis...It is the worst complication of diabetes that I have to deal with, and that includes dialysis. I spent days (7or8) when my stomach won't empty, and just grows into a watermelon sized "pain". Then when finally the medication works, i spend the next 3 or 4 days vomiting and having diaherea. Afterwhich the cycle starts all over again. I've tried all sorts of meds, but to no avail. this problem really complicates my efforts to control my blood sugars, and makes having a social life just about impossible too. Any suggestions?
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Suregrl just gave you such great advice
Im only going to add a couple of things re: treatment of diabetic gastroparesis
1) Diet (as suregrl covered perfectly)
2) Exercise: Postprandial (after you eat) exercise (walking, biking) has been shown to increase the activity in the stomach, and thus may improve gastric emptying in some patients
3) Botulinum Toxin A Treatment: There is fair data (in some studies 43% of patients have a response) with Botox injection into the pyloric sphincter..worth asking your GI doc about. The response generally lasts about 6 months.
4) Meds (as you know): reglan, erythromycin, zelnorm (not FDA approved for this use), Domperidone, anti-emetics
5) Gastric Pacing: Or Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) has been used to treat patients with diabetic gastroparesis. This is an implantable neurostimulator sutured in to the wall of the stomach. Preliminary results were encouraging but longer term studies have not been so encouraging with the main problems being infection at implantation site and cost. Stay tuned about this because we will be seeing more long term follow up. Based in part on current results, the neurostimulator was granted humanitarian-use device approval from the FDA for the treatment of chronic refractory nausea and vomiting.
Dr O.
The reason I am a type 1 diabetic is because of being born with pancreas insuffenciency that lead to mild chronic pancreatitis which lead to type 1 diabetes.
I have always had a lot of troubles with my digestive system because of it. I especially have troubles in the colon area. Having a BM can be rather disturbing and alters when and where I go somewhere.
I dont know if the sickness in my digestive tract is all from the chronic pancreatitis or perhaps from gastroparesis from the diabetes.
In May they did another endocope on me to numb the pancreas nerves to block the pain, wouldnt they be able to see if I had gastroparesis then maybe?
And last week they did a colonscopy on me, would they be able to tell if I had gastroparesis then?
The drink one takes to clean them out before a colonscopy took 4 hours to work on me when it is supposed to only take 1 hour and 2 at the most.
I often have intestional pains, bloating, nausea and so on all of which might be caused by the chronic pancreatitis or perhaps gastroparesis.
If I dont eat I do better. I do well on liquid diets. But if I dare to eat normal foods Im in trouble. I have to take high amounts of pancreas enzymes so I can digest my food, without them I am in bad bad bad shape.
Ive been a diabetic for 12 years now. Im on the pump.
david
They diagnosed me with a gastric emptying test.
Last summer I was hospitalized with a colon blockage. I tend to have loose stools and had had a movement the same day I was hospitalized. Go figure.
Betty
Something low dose.
We did vitamin shoppe brand calcium magnesium complex for 4.99 one pill only. You can get it on their website or at store.
I dont know anything about betine hcl so Im googled it and found it to be something that might work. Im going to do more google research on it. Thank you :)
I was on Metozolv (A metoclopramide that dissolves on the tongue) but insurance wouldn't cover it, so it was over $100 a month. Can't figure it out, but I think i've stopped trying to.