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cannabiscomrade · 10 months

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hi there, i want to thank you for talking about gastroparesis and sharing your experiences with tube feeding. i may or may not have gastroparesis as well, my gastric emptying test was inconclusive, but my stomach issues are pretty disabling and i have wondered if tube feeding might someday be necessary for me. hearing about your experience makes it a lot less scary sounding! i wonder if you would be comfortable sharing a little more about how tube feeding has improved your health, and impacted your daily life (for better or worse)? are there things you can do now that you couldn’t have done before tube feeding, or vice versa? feel free to take your time answering, or not answer at all if it’s too personal. either way, i appreciate you!

I'd love to talk more about it!

I can empathize with your GES results. They can just end up being just a snapshot of your entire experience, and unfortunately they can just catch you on a "good" day where your emptying times are better. I know some people will intentionally trigger flares to get more accurate numbers on their study.

I'll preface with a little more information about me. I was misdiagnosed for 16 years with Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and dealt with that and other vague GI diagnoses like GERD and IBS-D episodically and it gradually got worse over time. I was never given a GES until 2022. After I got pregnant and gave birth in 2020 I drifted into this pattern of daily morning vomiting, then I went into a flare last August that I never left. I was diagnosed with gastroparesis in Nov 2022, caught covid for the first time at the end of Nov, and got my tube Jan 2023.

Tube feeding has significantly improved by health. I was slowly dying from starvation ketoacidosis in December 2022. But even when I was eating orally I struggled with severe gastric malabsorption for years and often felt symptoms of malnutrition and saw minor malnutrition on labs and never understood why because I was eating, but because of fatphobia I was never given a GES and I was never taken seriously until I lost a significant amount of weight. In the most severe moments I was having constant diarrhea and vomiting and I've had so many hospitalizations due to dehydration and vomiting alone when I was eating orally.

I'm about 7 months in and I'm getting about 1300-1500ish calories a day, which is not my goal and it needs to be increased. But the difference with it being in my jejunum is that I'm absorbing 100% of those calories and it has helped my energy and my immune system so much. I've been able to significantly slow the weight loss while we investigate the root cause of my gastroparesis, as well as test for intestinal dysmotility. My hair is growing back, my nails are stronger, and I'm having general improvement of my IBS-D.

That being said, being on feeds and fluids, especially continuous feeds, it does impact my lifestyle a lot. I need accommodations at work. I can't let my feeds get over room temp or fluctuate temp too much. When my bags are full and it's in my backpack I'm carrying 2L of liquid and a pump, plus an additional medical bag with supplies. I even have to sleep at an angle to prevent aspiration. And the fun of stoma care. Cats also seem to have a taste for formula and tubing, which has banished my fur children from our bedroom at night. My medical supplies take up half of my dining room. It's certainly a major life change.

But without all of that, I would be dead. For a lot of us, being without alternate nutrition means either death or severe suffering from symptoms of gastroparesis. This is my symptom tracker for vomiting over the past year. You can see the stark difference between July-December and January-now.

This alone was enough for me to justify for myself that a medical device was necessary. Even without the starvation, I still have two hernias from vomiting and developed chronic gastritis secondary to the GP.

The one thing with tube feeding is that your digestive system is like a muscle. If you don't use it, you lose it. And I've definitely noticed a decline in my capacity to tolerate anything in my stomach for long, even liquids. I'm grieving this and learning how to live with this because there isn't an alternative for me at this moment. I'm still trying, I use the gastric port to drain a lot just to keep what little of my stomach's function it still has.

#gastroparesis #disability tag #disability awareness month #emetophobia warning

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problematic-andpretty · 1 year

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hi lovelies! i just made this cute lil calorie tracker for january 2023. hope you all enjoy it, and best wishes <3

#ed but not sheeran #tw ana diary #coquette #calories #ed bllog #ana trigger #tw ana shit #tw ana related

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medicaldevicesindustrynews · 3 years

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How will Growing Geriatric Population Propel Wearable Fitness Trackers Market?

One of the key factors responsible for the surge in the demand for wearable fitness trackers is the rising adoption of smartphone-based fitness tracking apps across the world. These apps, owing to their ability to provide a wide array of useful features, functions, and designs that help the consumers in their fitness journey, are witnessing a ballooning demand. Furthermore, the support granted to these apps by all the major smartphone operating systems, such as Android, Apple, and Blackberry, is resulting in their easier accessibility, thereby leading to their high utilization.

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sustainhealthmagazine · 4 years

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Here’s Why Fitness Trackers Are Money Well Spent

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53% of gym-goers regularly wear a tracker.

55% said they increased their motivation, 53% said they exercise more frequently and consistently.

48% said their self-confidence was increased with the tracker.

61% of users say they enjoy their gym workout vs only 30% who said they enjoy the gym without a tracker.

By FITNESS EDITOR FOR SUSTAIN HEALTH

PUBLISHED: 04:22, 23 January 2020 | UPDATED: 05:28, 23 January 2020

Over half of UK gym-goers (53%) claim to regularly wear fitness trackers when working out at the gym, with 28% claiming to always wear one, according to a survey by Better.

The charitable social enterprise polled 2,000 UK gym-goers to find out how the gadgets affect motivation.

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Since using a fitness tracker, over half (55%) of respondents experienced increased motivation, 53% noticed they are exercising more frequently and consistently and 48% started to reach their goals. Overall, the most frequent users of fitness trackers were men between the ages of 45-54.

Those who used fitness trackers are twice as likely to enjoy their gym workout (61%) compared to those who don’t (30%). Additionally, those who always use fitness trackers claim to be more confident in the gym (48%) than those who don’t (13%).

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When asked about the main reason for monitoring fitness activity respondents claimed tracking progress was the most important reason (71%). Nearly one in three (62%) do so for increased motivation to reach fitness goals and just under half (46%) track their activity to understand their body better. Almost a third of users say they track activity to give training a competitive edge when measuring results against their friends.

The Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends 2020 named wearable technology as the Number One industry trend, as it has been since 2016. Additionally, by 2023, the Global wearable fitness tracker market is set to be worth £47,552 million by 2023 according to the latest Global Wearable Fitness Tracker Market Research Report.

Better spoke to Dr Haider Raad, wearable tech expert and professor at Xavier University in Ohio, USA, to find out why fitness tracker have such a positive impact on a person’s exercise life. Dr Raad stated “The consistency and motivation experienced by the respondents are attributed to the immediate feedback and useful data available while exercising…the user could instantly get a sense of how their performance metrics are contributing to their fitness goals.

The real-time data provided by these trackers about the workout intensity, heart rate, number of calories burnt, kilometres walked, etc. could be highly effective at creating an engaging workout experience.”

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