How often do you have bowel movements? Is constipation/infrequent bowel movements a symptom?

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I am asking this because I am not seeing it mentioned in any symptoms, but my obvious question is that if food is stuck in your stomach, are you still having normal bowel movements?

IF i have gastroperesis, I know the cause is the migraine medicine, Qulipta. (it's apparently a pretty common side effect on this medicine)

I have been having abdominal pain, but that's not exactly unusual for me, but it has been more frequent, but I think most notably, I am only having bowel movements once every 3 days, maybe 4 days in some cases. This isn't totally and completely weird for me necessarily... but in recent years I have a bowel movement once every 1-2 days. But does that sound like a symptom of gastroparesis, or not really?

Posted Aug 7, 2025, 12:46 AM UTC

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