Jasmine’s Personal Story
Jasmine’s Personal Story: A Journey with Gastroparesis and Unwavering Strength Hello, everyone! My name is Jasmine; I am a 30 year old single mother of 2 boys, and I was diagnosed with gastroparesis on March 16th. My story is long but I’m hoping to meet people in a similar situation as myself, and to […]
Stephen’s Personal Story
Stephen’s Personal Story: Finding Relief from Gastroparesis I am 43 years old and I was told I have gastroparesis about 10 years ago. When I was around 25 is when a tumor was found in my stomach which I had removed along with half my stomach at MD Anderson in Houston because it was […]
Leon Briggs’ Personal Story
Leon Briggs’ Personal Story: Gastroparesis Hi my name is leon i was diagnosed with Gastroparesis 2011 my second year in college i was 19 im now 26. Ive learned a lot over these past 7 years from going to the hospital once or twice a month to hospital to now only about once every two,three […]
Amy Frojd’s Personal Story
Amy Frojd’s Personal Story: Supporting Briana’s Battle with Gastroparesis, GERD, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome Hello my name is Amy my daughter Briana is 17 with Gastroparesis, GERD and irritable bowel. She has had stomach problems off and on her whole life. She has had 16 surgeries and 2 of them were open heart surgeries. Because […]
Veronika’s Personal Story
Veronika’s Personal Story: Idiopathic Gastroparesis I wanted to tell my story of gastroparesis to try and help other people that are going through it. I had idiopathic gastroparesis, which means the cause was unknown, but the doctors believed it was caused by some damage to the vagus nerve. At the time I was in fifth […]
Alyson’s Personal Story
Alyson’s Personal Story: Seeking Hope After a Gastroparesis Diagnosis My name is Alyson, only 21 years old and very recently diagnosed with gastroparesis. I’m hoping posting my story will help me connect with others who can offer me a little hope to my life. Ive had on and off symptoms of IBS my entire life, […]
Michaella’s Personal Story
Michaella’s Personal Story: Coping with Gastroparesis, GERD, and the Mental Struggles That Follow I was diagnosed with gastroparesis and severe GERD about a year ago now. For a year and a half I went undiagnosed. I couldn’t get anything down my throat and was losing weight fast. I was 40 kgs and depressed at life. […]
Kristen’s Personal Story
Kristen’s Personal Story: Navigating Her 2-Year-Old Son’s Gastroparesis, Redundant Colon, and Reflux Hi! This is partly my story, but really my son’s story. See my 2 year old has gastroparesis, a redundant colon, reflux and a dairy intolerance. Gosh, i feel like a GI specialist now! I don’t know where to start and I […]
Nicolle’s Personal Story
Nicolle’s Personal Story: Diagnosed Gastroparesis After Severe Weight Loss I was a young, fun, athletic 37 year old, relatively healthy, living in the heart of Chicago, with an amazing job and awesome social network, when my weight started to suddenly plummet…and rapidly. Test after test, revealed nothing except a clinically deficiently low level of vitamin […]
Brigitte’s Personal Story
Brigitte’s Personal Story: Living with Severe Gastroparesis After Hiatal Hernia Surgery 7 years ago I had surgery to fix a hiatal hernia. Straight away I was unwell and within 3 months I went back to the surgeon complaining of problems with my bowel. I was told it was because I was still recovering from my […]
Paige’s Personal Story
Paige’s Personal Story: Functional Abdominal Pain and Possible Gastroparesis My daughter Paige is 16 at age 13 she had a thoracic arachnoid cyst on her spine went from t1 to t 12 after surgery was paralyzed for awhile at age,15 had to have rods fused in her spine to keep her,from falling over which they […]
Shannon’s Personal Story
Shannon’s Personal Story: Severe Gastroparesis After Unexpected Onset How do you tell the story of how your life fell apart? You went to the doctor thinking you just had some weird stomach illness but medicine and the doctor would make it better. In the fall of 2015 I had the worst seasonal allergies I had […]
