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Topic: Pain from Eating: Medical Mystery - WashPost

Keebler
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/pain-kept-this-young-woman-from-eating-for-5-years-and-doctors-didnt-know-why/2016/09/26/399211a6-6df9-11e6-9705-23e51a2f424d _story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_medmystery-1235pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Medical Mysteries

Pain kept this young woman from eating for 5 years, and doctors didn’t know why

By Sandra G. Boodman - Medical Reporter
The Washington Post - September 26, 2016

Excerpts:

. . . “We’ve done all these tests, and they’re all normal,” . . . .

1/3 way down:

. . . Extraordinary coincidence [section heading]

. . . A condition called MALS — median arcuate ligament syndrome . . . .
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Keebler
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A four-minute VIDEO accompanies the article above.

This is an extraordinary account of events. And it resonates for anyone with any medical complexity or anyone who might every be faced with such.
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Keebler
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For anyone with lyme who has GI issues, this is such important information to consider:

http://www.practicalgastro.com/pdf/April06/SherrArticle.pdf

“Bell’s Palsy of the Gut” and Other GI Manifestations of Lyme and Associated Diseases

Dr. Virginia T. Sherr, MD

Practical Gastroenterology - April 2006 issue

Eleven-page pdf
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Keebler
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http://flash.lymenet.org/scripts/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=119808;p=0

Topic: Treatment / Support for Gastroparesis

Many great links here
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HW88
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Thank you. This info is helpful for me!

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