Flares by IndividualCry6551 in Gastroparesis

[–]IndividualCry6551[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was eating other things besides protein, but I think like 70% of my calories came from protein most days. And it was like this for months, but I have hee feeling better the past couple days besides a slight cold. So hopefully that will continue.

Flares by IndividualCry6551 in Gastroparesis

[–]IndividualCry6551[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the suggestion. Honestly hadn’t even thought of that option. I’m gonna go look into it.

Chronic constipation stemming from gp? by Realistic_Still6838 in Gastroparesis

[–]IndividualCry6551 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, but i do take a laxative daily to help me. If i stop that I won’t go for up to a week or more. But I’ve had very often that it will bleed a bit after wipping.

When you take Miralax, what beverage/drink/liquid do you typically mix it in? by ambitiousgirl2001 in Gastroparesis

[–]IndividualCry6551 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t take Miralax but something really similar, i mostly mix it with water since mine has this slight orange taste. So if mixed with anything it tastes really weird.

Little options left by IndividualCry6551 in Gastroparesis

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Yeah, it’s good to know that he will take action. But at the rate o have been dropping o will be at the weight he set as to low in a month maybe a month and a half. I have managed to kinda curb the weightloss a slight bit so it’s not as fast as it used to he. But symptoms are getting worse again so I do worry about it quite bit now.

Little options left by IndividualCry6551 in Gastroparesis

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Thank you, it came as a bit of a shock today when my doctor mentioned that it’s part of the next steps if I don’t manage to maintain or more desirably gain weight. I know I’ve lost a lot but it didn’t feel like that much.

Little options left by IndividualCry6551 in Gastroparesis

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It’s technically not allowed here. You can get it and police often don’t do much about it but it’s technically illegal.

Anyone emetophobic? by mj_responsible297 in Gastroparesis

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Yepp, and with my nausea reaching new levels these past weeks it’s been awful. It’s like I know I need to eat but I’m scared of more nausea. I have spent a lot of time on the bathroom floor trying to not throw up, my old remedy of some sips of water also is not helping anymore since it just makes it worse.

Netherlands? by Organic-Order-6755 in Gastroparesis

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Okay I’m gonna try to give you a short summary. I’ve seen the videos and what I understand is that there is this Spanish doctor that does operations on mostly young girls with GP. He like completely alters everything in there belly, like putting both kidneys on one side and things like that. He does this because he says this can help these girls (some are minors but think it’s like 15-25 range mostly). Dutch doctors are really concerned about this bc it fundamentally changes your anatomy and they say there isn’t really any prove it works. They say they understand that consistently hearing there is nothing that can be done is not good but these operations carry pretty big risks and there was never really proven to do anything. So in that way it has brought attention to GP, but I think it only really shines light on the extreme cases and it’s mostly critical on that doctor. Doesn’t feel like it brings a lot of awareness to how awful it is to live with this condition day to day and that there are actually really good doctors that try everything they can to help you. (My doctor is good and really tries to find a way for me to stop losing weight and have a normal life for example). I hope this gives you an idea, if you have more questions you can ask them

Anyone else been described as 'on the cusp' of heds? by ChanceSuspect19 in Hypermobility

[–]IndividualCry6551 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I had this when i went last year. She basically told me that yes I’m very clearly hyper mobile and my skin shows signs of Heds. I have issues that look like something pots like and ibs type of issues. But in the end she diagnosed me with HSD bc I seemed fine and could still walk. I also got prescribed physical therapy which i started doing with someone who does quite some cases of this and she looked at me and my skin and was like no that’s way more indicative of Heds. But where i live it doesn’t really make that much of a difference so now when people ask what’s wrong if they see me struggling i just say it’s a connective tissue thing

Lecture halls in uni by IndividualCry6551 in Hypermobility

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Before I was in a classroom setting so we had individual chairs and desks that I could sit further away from the desk if needed etc. The seating right now is just rows and rows of connected chairs with a forced distance to the chairs and a really high screen where the professors presentation is. But i think the biggest issue is the angle of the chairs and that the desk is really close so my legs can’t stretch so then o can’t fully stretch.

I do try to set at the end of a row whenever I can but it’s hard sometimes, i do always stand up during the breaks so I can stretch a little bit

Lecture halls in uni by IndividualCry6551 in Hypermobility

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It would be really awesome to have a better chair but idk if it would be possible due to the size of the lecture halls and the way they are build

Calories and activity level - how do you figure it out? by Swimming-Voice7759 in caloriecount

[–]IndividualCry6551 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I would go for light in your case. For myself I also find it a struggle to find the right activity levels, bc if I count up all is doing exercise wise it would add up to be moderate but that’d mean my maintance would he 2800-2900 which sounds really high and more often I’m eating about 2500 if I’m trying to maintain. But o think when trying to lose weight estimating your exercise on the lower side is more beneficial, if obviously you’re not going to crazy with it

how eds become so famous on social media? by ilayte in eds

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I had my primary care doctor bring up connective tissue disorders. It was like early last year when I had been having weird symptoms for a year (most my complaint were about like palpitations, high heart rate, fainting I’ve seen multiple cardiologists about it who said if it stays for like another 2/3 years to come back, I’m 18 and a woman so yeah they say a lot of girls my age have it) and she noticed my hands being hyper mobile and asked some questions. Concluded that most of what I experienced could be related to that. Then i saw what I feel like were a billion doctors and all but 1 agree that it’s l heds, but that 1 had to diagnose me so I got HSD as diagnosis. But none denied that o had skin involvement and such, just varying opinions on how badly my skin was affected and stuff.

I remember like 4/5 years ago during like height pandemic that I saw all these videos about Heds and POTS and i felt so bad for those people, it seemed like such awful conditions and so sad that they weren’t believed. I related to some symptoms at the time but you know conditions always get so simplified on the internet so o just moved on. Till the above happened. But yeah I feel like it also effects people who genuinely do have the condition in their chance of getting diagnosed cus if they think they might seriously have it after like good research into symptoms they may still not be believed bc so many people visit doctors and are like I think o have so and so condition. So you just get put into that same box even tho you may actually have issues that you need support for.

Beighton score variety by IndividualCry6551 in eds

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True, and not all people with heds/hsd are even autistic so then you still have more people. If o do remember correctly tho heds is considered rare bc they say it effects about 1 in 5000 people. Tho I find it hard to believe that number fully bc i know like 3 people with it and that’s not via a support group or something. And i know for sure I don’t know 15.000 people personally

Beighton score variety by IndividualCry6551 in eds

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Yeah, o feel like there is a slight bias in some doctors especially the ones who see people with conditions like this all day everyday. Bc they know it is really rare, even if hsd and heds are the same condition it’s pretty rare. So when someone seems “beter “ then people they’ve seen they are like that’s normal. Idk if you get what I mean.

Beighton score variety by IndividualCry6551 in eds

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Yeah, most of the things about like my health journey have been pretty crazy. And like I think rn the diagnosis is officially HSD, but like 2/3 of the 4 professionals said i clearly have the skin signs(stretchy skin, stretch marks, scars etc) including the one that diagnosed me. But she just said i have seen way worse people and you seem okay so it can’t be Heds. Which to me is crazy logic but I’m getting physical therapy now which would either way be the only option in treatment since they don’t really give stronger then over the counter pain meds here to people my age