A member asked:

Gastric study showed early rapid gastric emptying. no prior surgery so not sure why i have it. i also have pots. could my pots symptoms be from rapid emptying or vice versa? i'm otherwise healthy eat eat healthy but terrible symptoms.

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Dr. Rebecca Gliksman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

POTS / rapid GI move: POTS is a condition of autonomic dysfunction and our GI tract movement is autonomic in nature. See article below from mayo clinic 48% of POTS had rapid gastric emptying f/u/ w/ doc https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286289/ Disturbances of Gastrointestinal Transit and Autonomic Functions in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2015 Jan; 27(1): 92–98

Answered 1/5/2019

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