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Does Gastroparesis have a cure?
Here you can see if Gastroparesis has a cure or not yet. If there is no cure yet, is Gastroparesis chronic? Will a cure soon be discovered?
Unfortunately there is no cure for gastroparesis yet.
As mentioned above in the Best Treatment section there is work being done to try and help us going forward but currently there is no cure.
People can experience remission periods and there are some treatment options that can make it seem cured but once stopped or if the illness progresses people often find they are sick again. Not always but more often than not.
Example:
There is an idea that domperidone can reverse it to a degree and then eventually you only need limited amounts of the drug to keep your stomach working. That falls under treatment, a continual treatment, not a cure. Some people will have a stimulator and see their life change but it's the same thing as above, if you take the stimulator away or the gp progresses you will actually notice a decline in health again if you ever noticed any help from those methods at all.
Domperidone reversing the motility issues and only needing the medication sometimes is not the common experience, my doctor told me it has happened though and so he always hopes for that instead of the person needing to be on domperidone, let's say 4x a day (that is my amount) every day for any relief.
The goal currently is to help relieve symptoms and give a better quality of life which is not the same as a cure. With a cure the goal is to cure not just give better quality of life to (despite the fact that you will have a better quality of life with a cure there is a difference medically speaking).
As mentioned above in the Best Treatment section there is work being done to try and help us going forward but currently there is no cure.
People can experience remission periods and there are some treatment options that can make it seem cured but once stopped or if the illness progresses people often find they are sick again. Not always but more often than not.
Example:
There is an idea that domperidone can reverse it to a degree and then eventually you only need limited amounts of the drug to keep your stomach working. That falls under treatment, a continual treatment, not a cure. Some people will have a stimulator and see their life change but it's the same thing as above, if you take the stimulator away or the gp progresses you will actually notice a decline in health again if you ever noticed any help from those methods at all.
Domperidone reversing the motility issues and only needing the medication sometimes is not the common experience, my doctor told me it has happened though and so he always hopes for that instead of the person needing to be on domperidone, let's say 4x a day (that is my amount) every day for any relief.
The goal currently is to help relieve symptoms and give a better quality of life which is not the same as a cure. With a cure the goal is to cure not just give better quality of life to (despite the fact that you will have a better quality of life with a cure there is a difference medically speaking).
Posted May 30, 2018 by Sabrina 1500
