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Can?diabetes cause digestion problems or lose of?motion?
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Yes: Long term uncontrolled diabetes causes what it is called diabetic gastroparesis, a condition in which your gastric emptying time and your intestinal transit is affected because of damage to the nerves that control how your gastro and intestinal muscles move.
Answered 5/27/2016
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