>----- Original Message -----
From: "clareS" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: Question about GI series
> Millie:
>
> Thanks. I do feel better this morning :o)
>
> Wishing you pain free moments, hours and days.
> Clare
>
> At Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Millie wrote:
> >
> >Clare,
> >Everybody is different when it comes to the length of time barium takes
to
> >go through the small bowel. Everyone's transit time is different.
> >They told me to drink a lot of water to flush it out, or the barium gets
> >like a rock, and that HURTS!!
> >It hurt me when they pressed on my belly, too. But only for awhile.
> >Feel better soon.
> >Millie.
> >
>> >>----- Original Message -----
> >From: "clareS" <csheedy@netcom.ca>
> >To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> ><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:16 PM
> >Subject: Question about GI series
> >
> >> This morning I had an upper GI series and follow through (the one where
> >> you drink the stuff & have a series of x-rays). They told me it would
> >> take anywhere from half an hour to 1.5 hours, but it actually took
> >> almost 3 hours. I read somewhere that you should take extra Metamucil
> >> etc for a few days after the test, which I will do when I get home
> >> tonight.
> >>
> >> When they did the last series of xrays, they pushed the machine
actually
> >> down on my abdomen. The left side was fine, but the right side hurt
> >> (enough to take my breath away). Then it got better for a couple of
> >> hours, but now it's getting worse and worse. Is this normal? It the
> >> same as the adhesion pain, but worse. It's not extreme, but I wonder
if
> >> anyone has had this?
> >>
> >> Wishing you pain free moments, hours and days.
> >> Clare
> >>
>