Re: Upper GI w/small bowel...

From: Ginny King (gking@myrickre.com)
Mon Nov 22 17:17:55 1999


Hi Rhonda,

I don't know how long it should take. Mine took over two hours as well and when the stuff hit my right side the pain was unbearable yet all test came back normal!? Good luck with your results. When do you have a follow up scheduled to discuss the results? Ginny

At Mon, 22 Nov 1999, toni welsh wrote: >
>At Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Rhonda R. White wrote:
>>
>>I had an upper GI w/small bowel follow-through on Friday. How long
>>should it take for the barium to go through the small bowel? It took
>>about 2 hours and I don't understand why it took so long. I had a
>>barium enema and that didn't take nearly as much time.
>
>I had the small bowel follow through and upper GI last Dec, they were
>checking for possible kinks in the bowel, or crohns, I was there for 4
>hours, but the test results were negative, they told me that the barium
>took some tim to get through, and the pictures were taken every 15
>minutes, and then a floroscope or something, a big light was exraying
>me. They never told me anything about how long it takes to get to the
>small bowel.
>
>Toni

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Ginny King

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