I just had an Upper GI and small bowel follow through on Saturday. The
barium hauled butt through my small intestine at first. The radiologist
was ooh-ing and aahh-ing and telling me I would be done in less that an
hour. I told him, "Just wait." Sure enough, everything came to a dead
standstill for over an hour and it finally trickled through to the
terminal ileum. At the same time everything stopped, the constant pain
jumped up two points just like it does when I try to eat anything. I
don't have the report yet, but is it ever considered normal for barium
to just stop moving through the small intestine? I have a history of
adhesions and it seems pretty obvious to me that they're back and
causing a partial obstruction. Just can't get any doctors to believe
me. My surgeon told me I needed to see a shrink and my gastro doc
accused me of drug seeking. I'm at the end of my rope if this test
doesn't show something definitive.