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What treatments are available for gastroparesis?
There is a drug called metoclopramide (Reglan) that you can take as a pill about thirty minutes before your main meals. It stimulates the muscles lining your stomach walls to contract more vigorously and opens the muscle at the lower end so that food leaves your stomach and gets passed into your small intestines more easily.
How would I know if I had gastroparesis?
When your stomach muscles get flabby and weak, it can cause some unpleasant symptoms. You may feel bloated, even after small meals. You might even be able to feel and hear that there is food sloshing around down there. It can cause you to belch up unpleasant smelling gas and be embarrassing socially.
What is gastroparesis?
This medical term means “sluggish stomach” or maybe “flabby, weak muscled stomach.” To understand why that can happen, let me explain a bit about how your stomach works. The stomach is like a stretchy bag with openings at both ends. There are muscles woven into the walls of the bag and other muscles wrapped tightly around each end of the bag to keep it closed.