At Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Jennifer Bayles wrote:
>
>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.
>
>--
>Jen in Houston