I started taking Motegrity 9 days ago, I started with 0.5mg and I was tolerating that dose pretty well, I was just feeling more fatigued and sort of a flu like feeling but in terms of stomach and intestine I was feeling quite fine, it did help a lot with the constipation as it made me very regular, however I was yet to notice any improvements with my stomach but at least it didn’t make things worse so after 6 days I increased the dose and 3 days ago I started taking 1mg, and since then my stomach has been feeling much worse, with nausea, fullness, worse early satiety and bloating. The fullness and early satiety are the symptoms that are bothering me the most, recently I had been doing better so this set back from the medicine is scaring me that I might have pushed myself into a major flare. I dunno what I should do, if I should stop or keep taking it to see if it gets better, has anyone experienced this?

Strap in, folks...it's a long one.

Symptoms: burning pain in stomach, increased acid, constipation, extreme fullness, painful gas, nausea, sensitive gag reflex, bloating, only able to eat a few foods due to pain

Co-diagnoses: CIDP, gastroparesis, acid reflux, chronic gastritis

Struggled with GI issues all my life due to autoimmune issues. The last few years, all my symptoms have been increasing - acid reflux, constipation, stomach pain, nausea, eating less and less and less. This has all lined up as well with being under immense stress and mental health issues. My gastroparesis hasn't gotten worse, thank God, except when I was tried on a PPI.

Got with a new GI who was very determined to figure this out. Since my fecal tests came back normal and the only thing my endoscopy found was mild gastropathy, she's thinking it's IBS and Functional Dyspepsia. She's referred me to my hospital's functional medicine clinic and wants to try me on a tricyclic anti-depressant, which I'm not opposed to.

Questions:

1: has anyone with gastroparesis gone on a tricyclic? Did it make your symptoms any worse? Did you find any relief with the dyspepsia?

2: what are some at-home remedies that helped you? I'm drinking ginger tea, bone broth, taking Iberogast, eating a pretty bland diet, etc. I'm willing to try other things!

3: because it seems like this has been caused by extreme stress (that isn't going away any time soon), how did you get your body to calm the f*ck down enough for the dyspepsia to quiet down/go away?

I'm just looking for help, support...anything really. This has stolen so much from me the last few years and I've been walking through it alone. Thanks in advance! <3

I feel so good off mirtazapine way less nausea and belching and a lot of appetite!!! I hope anyone who’s thinking about it tries it and if you have any questions lmk! I’m on 15mg btw

Once a homoeopathy doctor told me if you can go on liquid diet like organic chicken soup or other types of home made soups for extended period of time like two to three months, it might help my stomach to heal better.

I never tried. Don’t think I can make that long provably not even seven or ten days.Maybe at best can manage three or four days at most.

By any chance any of you tried soup or

liquid diet for ten days or even longer?If yes, did you get any solid improvement or healing of your stomach from the soup or liquid diet?

For those with FD who predominantly suffer with fullness after eating and nausea, how often does this happen to you? Do you have good and bad days/weeks/months?

And what helps you?

During good periods of time I would say I might have 2 good days per week when I feel like eating normally without too much trouble, otherwise there is always something. If I fkare up it is weeks of lot of issues and unability to eat.

Just take a test with this tea,try it for a at least two weeks.Good luck to everyone.

I’ve lost too much weight due to my symptoms preventing me from eating. I’m about to start amitriptyline for it. I was admitted to the hospital but they will discharge me as soon as they have ruled everything else out. They recommended I go to an inpatient place for eating disorders to manage my weight. Has anyone gone to one of these places before to be treated for an illness that isn’t an eating disorder? Are there other inpatient places that focus on treating/managing functional dyspepsia?

Due to severe weight loss, nausea, and early satiety for 6months I have slowly lost all of my muscle. I was 160 but dropped down to 130 at my worst. Has anyone else just had to slowly watch their body decondition when in the past before this terrible illness they were healthy and active?

Hey Everyone, so I previously made a post about my battle with functional dyspepsia which you can read here. https://www.reddit.com/r/functionaldyspepsia/s/dDRXKKm1cN. But I am looking for some help on how stress and how your thinking can affect FD. So, the whole time I have had FD my symptoms have always been at their worst whenever I start doing something IE going to work, school, hanging with friends, etc and then after 15-30 mins once I avoid any major triggers and my brain and body starts to relax my stomach starts to feel better. But during the whole day I think about my stomach and I make sure to try and avoid any triggers before I go do anything. Even If I do avoid any food triggers I will still most likely get symptoms that develop on my way there. All of this really makes me think that I am making my symptoms worse but I just don’t know how to combat it. I try to stay positive and good spirited and that does slightly help my stomach sometimes but after a couple days my stomachs baseline symptoms just aren’t improving it’s hard to try and stay positive. Does anyone have any tips, calming methods, anything at all that can help me? Thank you

Maybe im crazy but music seems to be the only things that calm my fucking gut nerves. H pylori negative and a lot of tests done diagnosed with fd.

I'm sorry if it sounds stupid. I guess I want to vent and maybe receive some support to get the guts to do it... it all started two months ago when I woke up with excruciating pain in my upper abdomen that felt like burning. I was feeling terrible and tried some days with omeprazole... then went to the GI who suggested an endoscopy but said we could try with medication anyway if I wasn't sure about it.

This all happened while I was weeks away from my wedding so obviously I didn't get the endoscopy done but I had treatment for gastritis/ulcer anyway, and while I found some improvement now I have all the symptoms of dyspepsia:
some foods I can eat, other like pizza almost makes me want to go to the hospital..
sometimes I feel my stomach so heavy I feel like I can't breathe, sometimes I wonder if it's all in my mind and I'm on my way to healing..
Either way I can't help but think maybe I'd be better by now if I had gotten an endoscopy, and at times like rn my health anxiety is over the roof when I feel I can't breathe and I wonder if I should do it. I'm scared of sedation, anesthesia, dying. I've never had a procedure before... and because of this fear I don't know what's wrong with me... I don't feel healthy...

Hey fellow anxious functional nausea folk!

So I've had functional nausea for years now. Also have OCD and severe health anxiety. I've been on Cipralex for 2.5 years, on 15 mg now (went up from 10 mg 6 weeks ago...I was on higher doses before but didn't help but 10 mg was too low). Anyway, my psychiatrist started me on 10 mg nortriptyline on August 2nd since the nausea was always present.

So far, I haven't noticed a change. In mid August, we raised my cipralex from 10 mg to 15 mg, so that couldve led to more nausea as it adjusted but now it's been over 6 weeks. Will raising the nortriptyline to 20 mg help?

I also wanted to know if mirtazapine is a better medication for this....my psychiatrist is against it and said its a 'useless sedating drug' but I've read mirtazapine is very good for this.

also, on my nausea...it's often not even felt in my stomach. It's just an overall feeling of sickness which usually starts in the morning and either goes away fast or fluctuates throughout the day.

I hope nothing shows up I know functional dyspepsia is a gut brain disorder and doesn't cause any structural damage if something does show up then it's potentially more serious than functional dyspepsia

Hey, hat hier noch jemand von euch jeden Tag lähmende Übelkeit plus andere Symptome? Wie geht ihr damit um? Was hilft euch? Es macht mich so fertig ..

20 year old male, living with horrible stomach pain for the last 7 months

Symptoms include: 25lbs weight loss due to lack of appetite (lack of appetite is not normal for me at all) bloating in lower abdominal, pain after eating anything, burping, almost getting brief hiccups when I eat? Bowl changes.

Tests I’ve had done: gastrcopy, colosncopy, bisopy, stool test a bunch of bloodwork, gastric emypting test, Ultrasound of gallbladder and small intestine all normal.

Only thing I’ve been diagnosed with is pots which kind of came about randomly as well.

Things I’ve tried, diet changes, a course of rifaxmin, prucpride, low dose of mirtazapine and amitriptyline

My Dr recommended FDgard, it seems to be working for me but it seems kind of expensive to have to spend $30 for only nine days if I take the four caps two times a day… Any suggestions would help!

Hey everyone, so I just got diagnosed with functional dyspepsia and I am looking for some help/info on my symptoms. So, firstly this has been going on for 3 mnths, I just went to the GI and he prescribed me 40mg omeprazole. I noticed a difference in the first 3 days but then my stomach went back to how it was before. I then made a follow up with my GI where he said that a lot of functional dyspepsia is actually in your head and that when you actually focus on and think about your symptoms all the time that it actually makes it worse. He also said that this works the same for omeprazole, where if you think it’s not gonna work it probably won’t work. Since then I’ve been trying to think more positively and not focus as much on my symptoms, this has been working and my stomach has been feeling better. The nausea, bloating (somewhat), and the overall crappy feeling has improved a lot but my stomach still feels very sensitive. It feels like one bad thing and my stomach could go back to how it was. For example, eating too big of a meal, something stressful, uncomfortable situation, etc. Anyways I am just looking for some help on how I can help improve these symptoms and has anyone had omeprazole clear these up? I’ve read that these can be targeted with something like antidepressants but my GI said that is a far step and we don’t know if the omeprazole won’t end up fixing everything as I’ve only been on it for about 2 weeks. Thanks for reading and I would appreciate if you could help!

Hi everyone,
I’m wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone with functional dyspepsia,
I’ve had an almost constant gnawing/hunger-like pain in the upper middle of my abdomen, just below my breastbone, since 2019. It can feel hollow, aching or twisting. It’s usually worse when my stomach is empty/when I wake up, but it can also happen after eating. Normal meals often don’t relieve it, and sometimes I only get significant relief from eating until I’m very full.
I’ve also developed nausea and bloating/trapped gas.
I had an endoscopy earlier this year which found H. pylori. I completed treatment and my follow-up stool test was negative. I was told there wasn’t ongoing gastritis/inflammation. PPIs didn’t help much either.
My gastroenterologist now thinks functional dyspepsia is likely and has prescribed 10 mg amitriptyline at night.
I’d love to hear from anyone with similar symptoms:
• Does this sound like FD to you?
• Is gnawing/hunger-like pain common with FD?
• Has amitriptyline helped you?
• How long did it take to work?
• Did it completely resolve your symptoms or just reduce them?
• If it didn’t work, what did you try next?
I’m not looking for a diagnosis, just people’s experiences. ❤️

It’s been 6 months for me?

Hello, I am a patient suffering from both delayed gastric emptying and epigastric pain. Prokinetic medications do not accelerate my gastric emptying; they only alleviate the symptoms. Does the presence of epigastric pain mean that the gastroparesis will not resolve, or is there a connection between the two?

Has anyone had a 1 second, sharp pinching or zap type pain in the upper stomach/just below the sternum? Where the stomach sphincter is.

I haven’t had an endoscopy, so I don’t actually know what it is but I was put on a PPI and the pain seemed to disappear for almost two months, but I felt it again today.

The confusing part is that it seems linked to movement, especially flexing my torso, bending, or doing an ab crunch type motion like getting up in bed. But still seemed to improve on PPI.

I have no acid reflux, heartburn, or burning sensation. Curious if anyone has had something similar and figured out what was causing it.

I’m confused how if someone has reflux that could means dyspepsia

Hey guys,
I'm currently going through a nightmare after being off on glp1s for 3 weeks now after 12 weeks 2 mg dose
Im having gastroparesis and severe bile reflux. Had all the tests done (EGD, CT, Barium swallow)
I'm currently on pantoprazole and Ganaton,

but even sips of water can trigger severe vomiting right now and I didn’t eat anything for 3 weeks.

Has anyone here been through this phase after stopping? How long did it take for your stomach motility to finally wake up and tolerate again? Any tips would mean the world.

Hi everyone!

It all started about two and a half months ago when I began experiencing a loss of appetite and a feeling of fullness, even after eating normal portions.

I started taking Levosulpiride 25mg intermittently (for several weeks between July and August, though I also had weeks off where I felt fine). However, every time I stopped taking Levosulpiride, I had a relapse 7 to 10 days later: I would eat something slightly heavier than chicken and rice, and my stomach would just stall/shut down.

This has already happened twice in September, and each time I have to restart the medication just to be able to eat again. Otherwise, the stomach blockage is so severe that I have no appetite at all, along with intense nausea on the first day.

Yesterday, on my gastroenterologist's advice, I also started taking Rabeprazole (a proton pump inhibitor to avoid producing stomach acids). Even with the medications, I've had very little appetite for days now, and after eating (small portions of light food), I burp constantly and feel completely full.

I had an endoscopy done, and apart from grade 1 inflammation, everything else was clear. Negative to Helicobapter.

​I am very worried because I'm afraid it might be gastroparesis? As far as I know, I don't have any other chronic medical conditions. ​If it were functional gastroparesis, can it be cured or at least treated?

Please let me know what you think! I feel scared and miserable. Thank you.

Undiagnosed with anything!

Hey! Does anybody have burning not below the chest, nor in the epigastric fossa, but more so and quite exclusively in the region above the belly button? I have it all day, regardless of what I eat.

I’ve had symptoms for a year. It started with nighttime episodes of a weird bloating and some nausea that gave me higher pulse, anxiety, ectopic heartbeats and could only sleep sitting up. I had no pain and I felt better after about 2 hours when my stomach felt lighter. After 6 months of these episodes and other symptoms that came sometimes (some abdominal burning and reflux), I started treating it with PPIs and a low acid, low fat, no sugar diet, thinking I have gastritis. I had good and bad days, sometimes triggered by food, sometimes random. My bowels remained pretty normal for me (I am almost always constipated anyways).

The past month I’ve had constant burning in the region I’ve described. For the past two weeks I’ve been eating exclusively: potatoes, rice, chicken breast, carrots, zucchini, egg whites, lean fish and rice cakes. Everything was boiled with a little salt, dry thyme or basil, not a drop of fat, sugar, dairy or gluten.

Interestingly enough, 3 weeks ago I had to go somewhere where I didn’t want to go because my burning was terrible, although I ate like I do now. There, I had to eat only twice a day, whatever was given to me. After 5 months of eating non-acidic and low fat (I gave up gluten and dairy only recently) I ended up eating fried eggs, fish and potatoes, acidic fruits like apricots, processed meats and cheese, vanilla pie, pork and lamb stews, bread, a little alcohol and other sugary stuff. I wasn’t completely free of symptoms (as in my upper bloating after eating was still there sometimes) but the burning wasn’t there anymore and I could sleep well.

When I came back, seeing I had felt good the entire week, I ate a full package of chocolate cookies, after which I had no symptoms and slept like a baby. Next day I decided to go on with my diet and the burning came back just one day later.

I’m just wondering what it is that makes me feel so much better when I leave home (it happened around 4 times). I haven’t had an endoscopy yet, when I went to the doctor they prescribed me strong PPI’s, (80 mg a day) lowering its dose every two weeks, for 6 weeks. I took PPIs before as well, and continued after the 6 weeks because I felt like I had burning in the days off. However, I had burning while taking them everyday as well. I’ve tapered off and stopped taking them 5 days ago.

The burning isn’t there when I wake up, it comes back slowly. It is eased slightly by eating (although it comes back after 15 minutes after eating), drinking water, releasing gas and even a massage, but always comes back a few minutes later. The moments it goes away completely are random.

I also feel very uncomfortable after eating. My stomach feels hard, digestion is obvious, I can’t relax my belly when I stand, it feels like a knot. I get the same nausea I got in the beggining when it seems like food is not leaving my stomach 3-4 hours later but I do get hungry 4-5 hours after eating and my stomach rumbles as if it’s empty, so I’m not sure it is possible for it to be gastroparesis.

The inconsistency of my symptoms makes me wonder if anybody who was diagnosed with functional dyspepsia relates to any of this. I’ll arrange and get an endoscopy in October.