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This post is going to be information and some personal experience from me on gi motility disorders but specifically hypomotility for gastroparesis and digestive tract paralysis awareness month

Motility and hypomotility overall

Motility is the movement of food through the digestive tract which comes from a combination of nerves and muscles working together. Hypomotility means that it is moving slower and the muscle contractions that help the process have slowed or stopped. Motility disorder is an umbrella term for any disorder effecting motility

Esophageal dysmotility

There are multiple esophageal motility disorders they cause issues getting food from the mouth to stomach. A couple that can slow motility are achalasia and ineffective esophageal motility (IEM) . There’s various causes of esophageal motility disorders some being; neurological disorders, primary esophageal motility disorders, tumors, autoimmune diseases, and more. Symptoms include dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), odynophagia (pain while swallowing), feeling as if something is in the throat, acid reflux, and more. Treatment depends on what you have, for achalasia theres multiple procedures and for IEM theres dietary modifications and medication to control acid reflux. Feeding tubes are used in severe esophageal dysmotilty cases

I have ineffective esophageal motility with 70% of my swallows being fails most likely due to a neurological disorder (known to be neurological but not known what exactly it is yet). I deal with dysphagia and odynophagia, swallowing is almost always painful and hard. I have bad acid reflux and a near constant feeling of something in my throat. Often times i feel whatever i swallowed slowly falling down. I have an gj tube which has been helpful but was not placed for that, i am also on medicine for gerd and am going to see a dietitian

Stomach hypo motility (gastroparesis)

Gastroparesis is a disorder where food is not moved through the stomach correctly and slowly it causes symptoms like nausea and vomiting, stomach pain, loss of appetite, feeling full after a few bites and more. There’s also multiple causes for gastroparesis but diabetes is a common one, it can be idiopathic or caused by other things like neurological disorders. Treatment includes things like medication, dietary changes, procedures like the g-poem, enteral or parenteral nutrition and hydration

I have gastroparesis probably due to the same cause of my esophageal dysmotility. I deal with a lot of nausea and stomach pain and was throwing up every day for over a year. I couldn’t get enough nutrition or hydration and after failing medicine, diet, and 2 procures i now have an gj tube and am receiving iv fluids through peripheral ivs at an infusion center but am going to get a central line and start them at home but still do take medicine for it. I had frequent er trips due to complications of gastroparesis.

Small intestine hypomotility

It is harder to find things on small intestine hypomotility but it is a slow moving small intestine with symptoms overlapping with gastroparesis and colon dysmotility like nausea, bloating, pain, and more. It also can be caused by things like neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases, surgeries, and viruses. Small intestine hypomotility can sometimes cause small bowel bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). It was hard to find information on treatment but there is medicine and dietary changes and parenteral nutrition and hydration can be used.

I have small intestine dysmotility, again probably due to the neurological disorder, and it is definitely adding to my symptoms that experience with other motility disorders. I deal with a lot of bloating, nausea and intestinal cramps. I am on medicine for mine, do diet changes with what i do eat and my gj tube does help since its at a slower rate, my iv fluids also help since they bypass the digestive system but still hydrate me.

Colon hypomotility

Hypomotility of the colon (colonic inertia or slow transit constipation) causes a lot of issues with bowel movements like constipation and hard stools, it can also cause abdominal pain like cramps, nausea and vomiting, bloating, and more. Causes also consist of surgeries, neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases, ect. It can be treated with medicine and diet changes but also surgeries like a colectomy with or without an ostomy.

I have colonic dysmotilty as well from the same cause of my other dysmotility. I deal with a lot of issues from this including cramps that can stop me in my tracks and bloating. I use medicine and diet changes

Gallbladder dysmolity

Biliary dyskinesia is a disorder where the gallbladder does not empty correctly and moves bile out slowly, it is not always something patients with global dysmotilty have. It can lead to complications like gallstones and inflammation. The cause isn’t fully understood but some neurological disorders can cause it. Biliary dyskinesia causes symptoms like right upper quadrant pain that is intense but comes and goes and nausea and vomiting. It is usually treated by removing the gallbladder

I had biliary dyskinesia likely from ,you guessed it, the neurological disorder. I would have severe pain from it and it had lead to gallstones which lead inflammation in my gallbladder. Mine was taken out.

Global dysmotility

Global dysmotility is when it effects the whole GI tract. It is complex and leaves me needing surgeries like gallbladder removal, tube feeds, iv fluids, specific diet, multiple medicines and more.

Sources and more information

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Before we learn about trans feminism, we need to learn about feminism. Does it include us? Not often. Is it all trash? No.

We need to learn about the history of sexism and the struggles people with uteruses have to be seen as more than property. We need to be able to empathize and realize that we are co prisoners, not enemies.

I think this hatred of trans men and denial of their pain is rooted in a lack of understanding of feminism. We spend so much of our energy suffering, and trying to find help and community (which is good), that we stop being able to understand other people's problems (which is bad).

It's also rooted in the top down system. The biggest feminists tend to be the most privileged, so they see ultimate privilege man as the default. You can add black or trans or disabled to him and he becomes more oppressed.

Kimberle Crenshaw thinks of things the opposite way. In her 1989 intersectionality essay, she describes a room where everyone is trying to get out by the ceiling. She says that white feminism wants to put a ladder down from the ceiling to the bottom. Only the people near the ceiling (more privileged people) benefit. They might not keep building the ladder. They might fight over it. What she is doing is building a staircase from the bottom to the top. Everyone gets out. (Her essay is much better than my bad memory attempt to explain it. Go read it.)

Cis and man and rich and able and white and etc. can't be the default. They are already the way we see the world. We need to look from the bottom up. If we help the most vulnerable people, we help everyone.

Example. We make law that says no discrimination against women. That doesn't help Black people.

Versus we make law that says no discrimination against any marginalized person. That helps everyone.

The people who hate trans men see it as them stepping up on the ladder, and trans women stepping down. This doesn't reflect what happens. And it isn't helpful to fight over who has it worse because we're just fighting over the ladder.

We need to build the staircase. We need to build the stairs according to what everyone needs. Laws against trans discrimination. Laws against racism. Laws against body discrimination. Laws for bodily autonomy. Laws decriminalizing sex work. Converting hotels into shelters so homeless people can stay safe and not have everything stolen from and have showers. Universal basic income and healthcare so people are never hostages. Etc.

* transandrophobia

* anti transmasculinity

* transmisandry

* transandromisia

* isomisogyny

And while I think these terms are useful, I don't think they encompass the whole scope of oppression and discrimination against transmascs. Whether it be that:

* They simply express prejudice prejudice was the best word I could find for what I meant, forgive me if it comes off wrong, like anti transmasculinity, transandromisia, or trans misandry.

* Commonly misused, like transandrophobia, as its definition is "How the fear of men impacts the material reality/physical health of trans men"

I actually don't have any issues with isomisogyny, given that its definition is "The intersection between transphobia and misogyny specifically directed at trans men and other transmasculine people". But I feel like we should have one word that encompasses all of transmasculine discrimination and oppression, including the concepts previously mentioned, to be able to make ourselves better understood.

I do think anti-transmasculinity had the potential to be this word, but it's been used along with transmisandry and transandromisia to the point of synonymization.

And I believe the two are not enemies.

Many times we hear Sodom and Gomorrah used to condemn us. But we forget the other verses:

"Love your neighbor as yourself"

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged"

"What you do to the least of these, you do to me"

God created all of us. He did not make mistakes.

Transgender people, gay people, lesbian people - we are also God’s children.

In Gorom Camp and everywhere, denying someone food, shelter, medicine, or dignity because of who they are is not faith. It is cruelty.

Tomorrow it could be your brother, your sister, your child.

So today, let’s choose compassion.