small bowel series tomorrow..
#207297 - 08/21/05 08:04 PM
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and I know virtually nothing about it.
do you just lay there for three hours while they take pics. I'm a little nervous! wish me luck
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Hi Ashley, No, usually not. You sit somewhere near the X-ray table and read magazines and they make you get up on the table every half hour or so. They also make you drink enough barium to choke a horse. Good Luck with it! It was bad for me because I was really constipated when I had it, otherwise I don't think it will be too bad. -Bob
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thanks.. i'm back from it now.
It took a little under 2 hours and I seriously thought I was going to throw up drinking all that barium. She gave me two waterbottles full of it, and I cringe now thinking about it. YUCK.
I spent the rest of the time reading, and feeling like I was going to puke at any minute. The lady tried to be nice and said pretend its a yummy macdonalds vanilla milkshake, but that made it worse bc I've always hated the taste of milkshakes!
I'm not sure if they'll find anything. If they do.. do they usually tell you on the spot.. or does your gastro tell you about it?
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I'm supposed to have this procedure done 9/8/05 and I'm "praying" they don't stick anything up inside you. If I'm understanding these postings correctly, you drink the barium and they just x-ray you?
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I don't know about that test specifically, but my understanding for tests in general has always been that technicians are never supposed to tell the patients what they've seen, good or bad.
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I know. It's horrible. They kept telling me that the barium would help constipate me. I darrhea'd barium for 10 days straight afterward! They did not understand when I told them that the barium was going STRAIGHT through me. I sympathize. The other girl that was drinking barium beside me kept puking it back up. It did not help the experience at all. What we do for doctors these days. It seems like any bodily hole is open game. Sigh.
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Heidi, Yes, they make you drink lot's of barium! As I mentioned in the other post enough to choke a horse. They also make swallow crystals which form lots of gas in your stomach and esphogas, and watch your peristalsis on a TV screen. However, they don't stick anything up you. -Bob
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I know.. before I started my stomach felt rumbly and like I needed to D.. but I held it in because if I figured if I went to the bathroom while drinking the stuff i'd have to keep drinking more and more to replenish what came out.
Anyways.. as I left they told me i'd probably be constipated for days.. but I've already gone 3 times since I've been home.
anyways.. the stuff did taste nasty.. and it kept getting worse and worse. The first bottle I could handle, but by the second bottle I was on the verge of throwing up the whole time.
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thanks for the info. The guy questioned my symptoms and seemed to concentrate on one spot but who knows what that means. I have an appt with my GI on friday so I guess maybe i'll find out then?
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Ashley, It depends on the Radiologist doing it. My guy thought he was a comedian and said while watching my esphogas,"Whoa.. Hey buddy, did you know that the bottom third of your esphogas is dead, you must be drinking too much beer, eh". I said," What, Are you joking? with IBS, yeah right!" He also said my small intestines were indicative of someone who has chronic D. I told him that it was just due an allergic reaction I had with Zelnorm, but he didn't listen. My GI doc just completely dismissed his report anyway knowing it was mostly erroneous due to the Zelnorm reaction. -Bob
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I would think so - 5 days seems like long enough to get a report. And I know it's pointless to say, but I wouldn't worry about what the tech seemed to be saying or doing. I hate to promote the whole doctor mystique, but there actually is a reason why the tests have to be "read" by a doctor who's an expert in the tests and/or by your GI guy - things that look weird sometimes mean nothing and things that look normal sometimes aren't.
Take care.
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I just had one 6 months ago- the worst part was the drinking of the barium.. YUK!!!! And it just seemed to make my constipation issues worse for a couple days. It is mostly time consuming.But doesn't hurt at all! Good luck!
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This was also my latest test...and i hated it. I liked the barium enema better lol. My results came when i called my family doctor for an appointment for something else and she said, "oh yah, you have IBS" lol i was like..."ohhh gee...thanks"! lol Yes, the barium is quite gross. I gagged with each swallow...but doesnt it feel good to get it over with! Have fun with the snowy poops! *tee hee!* Melissa
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My gastro told me- they didn't tell me anything there. Waiting rots though doesn't it?? I hope it comes back okay!!! Melissa
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