Abdominal Pain and Chronic Opiate Use in Patients with Gastroparesis

• Published in: Gastrointestinal disorders (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 765 - 773
• Main Authors: Ifrah, Abraham, Ebeid, John, Parkman, Henry P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2024
• Subjects: Abdomen; abdominal pain; Analgesics; Antiemetics; Back pain; Benzodiazepines; Data collection; Diabetes; Emergency medical care; FDA approval; gastroparesis; Health services utilization; Hospitalization; Hypnotherapy; Marijuana; Morphine; Motility; Narcotics; Nausea; opiates; Patients; Pregnancy; Quality of life; Vomiting

Introduction: Although opiate narcotics may worsen gastroparesis(GP), patients can take these for abdominal pain (AP) or other chronic pain syndromes. This study aims to evaluate medications patients with gastroparesis use for AP and compare patients who use opiate analgesics for AP to those using o...