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Hey Ewan! As a fellow redditor living with gastroparesis I applaud your efforts to raise awareness of this disease and its effects. Are you doing any better since being correctly diagnosed? All too often people have never even heard of it, or what our day to day lives really look like. When I was in high school I would get sick every single morning before school. Needless to say I missed a ton of days and ended up having to drop out and get my GED. My parents thought I was either faking it or addicted to hard drugs. Unfortunately they talked to a doctor who saw me one time, after having already made the decision that I was an addict. They sent me to a drug rehabilitation program in the wilderness of Montana based on his recommendation (later I would find that every kid in the rehab had seen the same doctor one time and then been immediately sent away), which made it even more difficult for me to be properly diagnosed. Eventually I would make it through this experience and finally they wised up that it was no act, and I was one of the first to participate in a new study using what is called "The Smart Pill" to test motility in the stomach as well as a number of other factors and eventually was diagnosed correctly. Do not give up! Do not let anyone tell you that you aren't in pain or feel like you are gonna get sick. Constantly I have people asking why it's taking me so long to eat, or why I didn't finish my food. People may think that every disease should be easily identified and treated, but this is not always the case. Since then, I have found that marijuana definitely helps my symptoms, and my GI Dr. straight up told me that he could not legally advise me to partake, but to do whatever I needed to do to feel better. Props for keeping your head up, and think long and hard about that implant before you do it as I have heard some horror stories both in physical and financial costs. If you ever want to talk shoot me a PM!

I completely understand, where I live it is not legal either. At some point you start worrying about your quality of life more than the laws. Don't ever let assholes like VIXX tell you that you should just suck it up, they have no idea what kind of hell you go through. Good luck with everything my friend and if you ever need any advice feel free to message me.

Hey Ewan, check out my post as I was in a very similar situation to you. I ended up dropping out and eventually getting my GED. After taking some time off I decided to go back to school and finish my education. I am now halfway through with college and I can tell you that no one cares at that point what your attendance or grades were in high school. One recommendation I could make would be to look into either the UK equivalent of the GED or online classes. At the moment I am split between online classes and in-school classes which helps, as I can do the online ones whenever I feel up to it. Keep it up brother and PM me if you need any help.

I msut have talked to a million pricks like you when I was growing up. You would not last one day in mine, or EwanBB's shoes without ending up in an ER. Waking up every morning to quickly become violently ill isn't the same as "oh no, I might throw up!" Maybe you should take some medical classes, since you clearly have no idea wtf you are talking about.