This test involves fasting for 12 hours. I check into IMC at
8:00 in the morning. This test requires you to drink a white barium chalk consistency
liquid every 15 minutes until the substance is gone. Try doing this on an empty
stomach that is already nauseous. Great fun.
After the substance is gone, they take x-rays of your
abdomen every half for 2 ½ hours. Then for your last scan, they make you lay
down on a table and the Radiologist comes in. He has in his hand this lovely
instrument that to put it in understandable terms is a long wooden stick with a
hard ball on the end of it. He then uses this lovely wood stick and presses
into the abdomen in certain spots to manipulate the intestines and is taking
x-rays at the same time.
Small Bowel Follow through; done.
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