Re: GI tests
From: Christine M. Smith (smithy@maine.rr.com)
Fri Apr 16 09:24:08 1999
At Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Toni Welsh wrote:
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>At Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Christine M. Smith wrote:
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>>Has anyone had any barium xrays or CT with contrast that gave any
>>information at all concerning adhesions?
>>
>>I have noticed in doctor's notes that they can tell, for example in a
>>barium enema, how fast the different areas of the colon fill with the
>>barium and this can give them an idea of a problem. I know xrays can't
>>*diagnose* adhesions, but the findings can *suggest* their presence. I
>>was wondering if anyone has had this experience.
>>
>>Also, I've read (on some website somewhere) that MRI with contrast can
>>pick up adhesions, but then in other places I've read that isn't the
>>case. Just wondering.
>>
>>chris
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>That is why I wanted the gyn to run at an ultrasound, and MRI, what is
>it going to hurt? I still am wondering about ovarian remnant chris, b/c
>the pain I am now having and HAVE had worse is where the right and last
>ovary was so stuck!
>
>He said he would have seen it during the second laparotomy, but if it is
>just a piece of tissue, maybe he could not see it , it had only been
>barely 5 months since surgery, the hard pain is there, they tried
>steroid injections, they did not help, felt like they were puttting
>heavy liquids in there, I refused anymore, I almost passed out the first
>one.
>
>Would you think that a dr would see a peice of ovarian tisse during
>surgery, I could be wrong, butit hurts there pretty bad, when I said
>something about it, he said he knows I have no more masses, the ovary is
>gone, but the other drs 2nd opinion said as stuck as the ovary was, it
>could very well be ovarian remnant! What do you think?
Hi Toni:
I'm pretty sure an ultrasound wouldn't show anything with adhesions. It
doesn't with endometriosis. I don't know about MRI.
I know next to nothing about ovarian remnant syndrome. Since you don't
have endo, I'm not sure what problems it would cause if it were there. I
would think that with all the adhesions that your gyn described in the
pelvis that 1) it would be pretty difficult to see a remnant of ovarian
tissue and 2) those adhesions could account for the pain you are having
on the right side. But I am no doctor! Don't you just love it when one
doctor says one thing and another says the opposite! The down side of
seeing multiple doctors I guess.
Chris