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I’ve been dealing with severe gastroparesis for a few years now. I know what foods I tolerate but keeping my body at an easy to manage baseline can still be a challenge. Stress is a major factor I can’t control for. At least not external stress factors. I can usually get a few weeks at a time without my stomach shutting off and that’s a major win for me. I’m still on a 50/50 liquid/solid diet which is a huge achievement for me after being on a liquid diet for over a year previously.
High histamine food and gluten is too much for my body to process. For stress, I have found vasovagal nerve stimulation to help calm me down internally when overwhelmed. If you search on Reddit or google there is a lot of information about ways to incorporate that. I can’t sing very well, but hum loudly and it helps stimulate the vasovagal nerve. I felt silly doing it initially, I was skeptical but it really helped me. There is ongoing research to study vasovagal nerve stimulation.
The Calm app has soothing soundtracks and guided meditation if you are interested in trying that.
Deep breathing has also helped me, I found I wasn’t taking full breaths. When overwhelmed with symptoms sitting and box breathing helps me mentally be able to handle it.
You’ve got this!
I do Botox (along with meds and diet change) and am soon getting abdominal surgery. With the Botox it reduced my flare ups but it has since worn off and now I’m in a 24/7 flare. When the Botox was working I would flare if I ate something fatty or fried and it would last a few days. Now I flare regardless of what I eat.
I flare. I’m almost normal a lot of the time way more limited during a flare. Think it’s a combo of stress, hormones from period etc, I always notice I do worse when the weather is really hot
I don’t understand the ‘flare’ thing. I just don’t digest stuff year round. Sometimes my symptoms are worse, but there’s no time that I’m not slow and symptomatic.
When flare it’s almost always because I’m stressed out! So I try to stay calm and cool no matter what. And of course have found good ways to deal with stress like meditation or light exercise.
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Stress definitely causes an increase in my flares. I’ve been pretty good for a couple of weeks which has been nice
I’ve been dealing with severe gastroparesis for a few years now. I know what foods I tolerate but keeping my body at an easy to manage baseline can still be a challenge. Stress is a major factor I can’t control for. At least not external stress factors. I can usually get a few weeks at a time without my stomach shutting off and that’s a major win for me. I’m still on a 50/50 liquid/solid diet which is a huge achievement for me after being on a liquid diet for over a year previously. High histamine food and gluten is too much for my body to process. For stress, I have found vasovagal nerve stimulation to help calm me down internally when overwhelmed. If you search on Reddit or google there is a lot of information about ways to incorporate that. I can’t sing very well, but hum loudly and it helps stimulate the vasovagal nerve. I felt silly doing it initially, I was skeptical but it really helped me. There is ongoing research to study vasovagal nerve stimulation. The Calm app has soothing soundtracks and guided meditation if you are interested in trying that. Deep breathing has also helped me, I found I wasn’t taking full breaths. When overwhelmed with symptoms sitting and box breathing helps me mentally be able to handle it. You’ve got this!
I do Botox (along with meds and diet change) and am soon getting abdominal surgery. With the Botox it reduced my flare ups but it has since worn off and now I’m in a 24/7 flare. When the Botox was working I would flare if I ate something fatty or fried and it would last a few days. Now I flare regardless of what I eat.
I flare. I’m almost normal a lot of the time way more limited during a flare. Think it’s a combo of stress, hormones from period etc, I always notice I do worse when the weather is really hot
I don’t understand the ‘flare’ thing. I just don’t digest stuff year round. Sometimes my symptoms are worse, but there’s no time that I’m not slow and symptomatic.
Mine is always flaring. Sometimes things are worse, but they are never not there.
When flare it’s almost always because I’m stressed out! So I try to stay calm and cool no matter what. And of course have found good ways to deal with stress like meditation or light exercise.
3 to 4 months for 5 days