Gastric motility in people with dysautonomia is often misunderstood because it isn’t always slow. While gastroparesis gets a lot of attention, autonomic dysfunction can just as easily cause rapid gastric emptying, and the symptoms of the two can overlap more than most people realize. Both slow and fast motility can lead to nausea, bloating, early satiety, and abdominal cramping. In dysautonomia, the underlying issue is disordered autonomic signaling to the gut, so it can swing both ways – too fa