How to do The Pie Face Challenge

 Some basics about Gastroparesis

The Cause

There is not enough research into Gastroparesis. The current medications don’t work well enough to stop enough people from ending up on one type of feeding tube or another. 

GP patients, like Ehlers-Danlos and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder patients, are subjected to Institutional Abuse such as accusations of drug-seeking behaviour.  

Some are even kept against their will in psychiatric units, where they are misdiagnosed as having an Eating Disorder and treated accordingly, while their actual physical symptoms and diagnoses are dismissed and ignored – even when experts call and try to intervene.  

The Rules

- Record someone else or yourself smashing a pie into your face and getting all #CreamyForGP.

- Challenge as many of your friends/colleagues/idols/enemies as you like to do the same thing.

- Post your video on your personal social media and on the official Gastroparesis Pie Face Challenge Facebook page.

- If someone you nominated doesn't take the challenge within 24 hours, they have to donate a dollar to GPACT, a 

   non-profit organisation that helps Gastroparesis patients, and those with other Gastrointestinal and Digestive   

    Disorders, and conducts research. 

In an ideal world, of course, you’ll get all creamy, nominate AND donate that dollar. To do that, go to GPACT's website, scroll down the page to the little yellow button above the big green box, click it and follow the PayPal procedure. 

And remember - you don’t have to wait to be nominated.

Smash yourself a good one and start a new chain of creamy challenges…

We can’t wait to see them!

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