my husband has been sick for 6 years with severe abdominal pain, which one specialist compared to heart attack like pain after witnessing the spasm and inflammation in his esophagus during an endoscopy, and severe nausea and vomiting. This has contributed to 100lb weight loss, he is 6 3 and weighs around 125-130 lbs. Recently he has started to regurgitate foam on a very regular basis. Sometimes it looks like dry spit and other times he says it tastes and feels like vomit. We are being treated by the va, but they basically told us they were no longer going to be doing diagnostic treatment, but now only symptomatic. We moved from SD to OR with the hopes that we would be able to find a doctor with more resources to finally get a diagnosis and proper treatment but the va limited us and now we don t know where to go or what to do. He suffers all day everyday. We have 4 young children and I have to call out of work frequently to take care of him. One of the the tests that the va did run was a gastric emptying which they said that his motility was 90% less than what it was supposed to be. We are out of answers, but I feel that he is getting sicker by the day and like I said I dont know what to do. I hope to hear back and am grateful for any information or advice you can offer. Thank you! Sarah Kirsch
Hi. You already know the diagnosis of your husband. This is Gastroparesis. Is he diabetic or so? One of the best options is to go for gastro-enterostomy like Gastro-Jejunostomyto increase his gastric emptying time and help alleviate the symptoms. This helps a lot. In addition, he has to take small frequent feeds, avoid all the foods and beverages which increase his problem.