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By jove this does sound like what I have. I do have less issues with smaller, lower-fat meals.
Since gastroparesis has to do with dysfunction of the vagus nerve, has anyone (Lisa?) read anything to do with biotoxins and the vagus nerve? Obviously there are a lot of potential reasons for vagus nerve dysfunction, but I dealt with no gastric emptying issues before/during/long after antibiotics, photons, and herbal formulas for lyme and co-infections. This just developed in the last 6 months or so, so it definitely feels like it's more a cumulative-damage issue and more likely to be toxin-based.
I have friends with gastroparesis and was thinking of mentioning that to you--but someone beat me to it!
I know of one person who has an exceptionally bad gastroparesis deal going on and hers started after getting way too many vaccinations all at once when she volunteered as a tsunami relief worker. She went so far as being tested with a temporary vagus nerve stimulator (think wires coming out of her mouth for 3 days) and all her symptoms--gastroparesis and the rest of them--disappeared.
The next step would have been surgery to implant a device but she balked as it is risky surgery. What the experiment did do was pinpoint the vagus nerve as the source of most of her symptoms.
The ANS specialist I used to see also pointed to the vagus nerve as a culprit for me--after analyzing my tilt table test.
How to deal with the vagus nerve is a complicated question. Seems like, for the moment, diet stuff would be the safest route to deal with motility. Another friend has some success with psyllium after every meal. Helps make the train chug along in the right direction.
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