Appointment prep
Prepare for a gastroparesis or GI motility evaluation
Nausea, early satiety, bloating, and vomiting are often dismissed as 'just anxiety' or eating disorder. Medvo helps you describe the mechanical nature of symptoms and request gastric emptying studies and motility referral.
Symptoms patients describe
- · Feeling full after only a few bites, persistent nausea
- · Vomiting undigested food hours later, severe bloating
- · Weight loss, malnutrition, and need for feeding tubes in severe cases
Tests & referrals to request
Framed as evaluation — your clinician decides what is appropriate.
- · Gastric emptying study (scintigraphy)
- · Referral to neurogastroenterologist or motility specialist
- · Discussion of prokinetics, dietary management, and ruling out mechanical obstruction
If you've been dismissed
- · Told it's psychological or 'all in your head'
- · Offered only PPIs or antidepressants without motility testing