Ok, it's actually my small intestines. I went to the gastro dr on Monday. By the way, he was a total a-hole (pardon the pun). I'll have my results on the Celiac blood test next week, but he wanted me to get small bowel and UGI tests done today. This took several hours. First I had to drink the Barium mixture which is basically chalk mixed with water. With the first sip, it tastes like a thicker form of Mylanta. Not that bad. But by the 3rd cup I knew I was going to have nightmares about this stuff. One of the docs mentioned that they put chocolate syrup in it at the Children's hospital. So NOT fair!! Apparently, it takes about 20-30 minutes to drink this. I downed it in less than 5 minutes. When they took the first xray they were all really shocked that my stomach was stretched so big! They(my entire team of radiologists) couldn't believe that I wasn't in an incredible amount of pain from how huge my stomach had stretched. I told them that I was pretty used to stretching my stomach(refer to what I did for July 4th). Anyways, you have to walk around and take more xrays every 20 minutes for over 2 hours. It was really boring, but all the radiologists and xray technicians were really nice and I know all of their life stories. Now I will be spending the rest of the day in the restroom thanks to the Barium.
2 comments:
awesome!! and, after your rousing endorsement i can't wait to sample the barium!! i've only been privileged to quaff the delightful polyethylene glycol prep...unforgettable!!!
p.s. hope you use charmin.
That does not sound fun at all! Yeck!
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