Hi all! Everytime I go on vacation I have delayed stomach emptying mainly at dinner time. I’ve done some research and have learned that it is quite common for T1Ds to get “vacation induced gastroparesis” or “acute gastroparesis” when we go on vacation.
Anyone suffer from this? How have you worked around this?
Hello @birdfran09 I have never considered “vacation induced gastroparesis” but I have some symptoms. I travel for work and I get “work induced stress travel” which I’ve had for 20 years. In my case it has never been overly painful or caused anything other than inconvenience. I do better when I set aside time to relax and make sure I’m hydrated. Exercise helps. Alcohol makes it worse so I’m a little more careful as I get older. Good luck I hope you find some relief! 
Hey friend I took have never heard of “vacation gastroparisis” haha no offense haha but that sounds funny, vacation as not watching what we eat. So back in 2016 I was diagnosed with diabetic gastroparisis I had to eat a radioactive egg and go back to office to get images of where the egg was in my digestive tract. I have type 1 and did a horrendously crappy job at monitoring it. Also I NEVER heard of such a thing, I was always threatened with you will go blind and you will have an amputation. There is no b.s. if you have it you need to watch what you eat the end. If I didn’t love meat I would be a vegetarian honestly hahaha however that is also bad for gastroparisis because fiber is incredibly difficult to break down for us it actually can turn into bezors I think is how you spell it. My best advice is to see a registered dietician with your endo. Here is why I didn’t and I ended up throwing up for multiple years multiple times a day and it ended up cause me to get copd, because I was aspirating food and acid which scarred my lungs and sent me on a irriversible course of self induced B.S. type 1 diabetes is no joke so please please please go and see a registered nutritionist, best of luck friend.
I’ve never heard of that. If had to posit a theory I was say that if you’re in a foreign country(?) different spices and ingredients might affect you in that way. And I think people in other countries focus more on fresh, healthy foods and sit and savor their meals and prepare them with care whereas we Americans tend to rush through meals that may have been frozen and have a lot of chemical additives. Maybe the whole process is slower elsewhere although in this case not in a good way.