u/BeenaDreamer

About 6 months ago, one of my doctors started me on iron supplements. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, and I had bloodwork done to see how they were working.

After, I got a message from my doctor asking if I was taking the supplements (which I definitely have been, so obviously, that's a good sign /s). I've looked at the results, and some related things went up while others are pretty much stable. Having looked on Dr. Google, for what that's worth, it appears that I'm likely having absorption issues.

I've also realized that I do have a couple new symptoms, including intermittent pain in the upper right of my abdomen (not my gall bladder, I had that removed about 2 years ago) and my stools are almost all kind of diarrhea-ish (like watery and stuff).

So my question is basically wondering if anyone has had similar issues with iron supplements in particular, but really I'd be curious about other supplements as well.

So, I just came across this and I thought it might be helpful for people in this subreddit. It's one of the more concise and easy to follow guides that I've come across. I think it's probably better for people that are more in a maintenance phase of gastroparesis, but it could also be beneficial to more newly diagnosed individuals who are trying to figure out what foods to even test for tolerance with.

Check out the guide here

(I tried to post it directly, but I didn't have the option)

Hope this helps!