Dr. Bharat Pothuri is a board-certified gastroenterologist and the founder of GastroDoxs. With extensive experience in digestive health, he specializes in advanced endoscopic procedures, chronic GI disorder management, and preventive care. Dr. Pothuri is dedicated to providing expert, patient-focused insights to help improve gut health and overall well-being.
He examines your diet and the development of the symptoms, weight change, gastrointestinal operation history, management of diabetes, smoking, drinking, and does a concentration on the abdomen to feel its tenderness, bloating, or palpable lumps.
We screen anemia, infection, inflammatory clues, metabolic (thyroid) as well as nutritional deficiencies to exclude systemic factors of premature satiety and epigastric pain.
In complicated situations, the assessments of the stomach contractility can be done in the form of gastric manometry or wireless motility capsule examination. In rare cases of diagnosing laparoscopy may be done to determine any adhesions or external causes of compression.
Dr. Pothuri has treated more than 1.1K patients, helping individuals improve their digestive health and overall well-being through expert, personalized care.
With over 20 years of experience, GastroDoxs has been a trusted provider of gastroenterology care, focusing on delivering the best outcomes for patients
Dr. Bharat Pothuri is a Board-Certified Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist. With extensive experience in digestive health, he specializes in advanced endoscopic procedures, chronic GI disorder management, and preventive care. Dr. Pothuri is dedicated to providing expert, patient-focused insights to help improve gut health and overall well-being.
Early satiety can result due to slow gastric emptying (gastroparesis), stomach ulcers or gastritis, tumors that press against the stomach, nerve damage (especially as a result of diabetes), and previous stomach or esophageal surgery.
A combination of dietary changes, prokinetic drugs, acid blockers, and, when necessary, minimally invasive surgery is highly successful in improving many patients, as developed by Dr. Pothuri.
Yes. Without timely intervention, premature satiety may result in inadequate nutrition, unwanted weight loss and a low quality of life. Complications are prevented by early diagnosis and treatment.
Whenever you always feel full after a few helpings of food, experience unexplainable weight loss, experience repeated nausea and discomposure, or, conversely, you notice a quick and persistent weight loss, make an appointment to find out what has been causing the problem and start medication.
Yes. Continuous elevation of blood sugar levels may destroy the vagus nerve responsible in regulating the emptying of the stomach leading to slow digestion and early satiety.
The majority of the patients discharge on the same or the following day. It will take you some weeks before you begin to overcome some of the symptoms since the device will assist with the regulation of the contractions in the stomach.
In mild stages, small and frequent meals of soft and easy to digest foods and mindful eating can be enough. In case of persistence of symptoms, Dr. Pothuri can include drugs or prescribe endoscopic procedures in order to provide the best relief.
