Mri Scan Small Bowel Study - Contrast Moved Right Through Me

[Hot Tub]

I had a small bowel mri last week and before I finished drinking the litre of clear fluid, I had to rush to the toilet to deal with a sudden attack of diarrhea. I informed the scan technician and he told me that it could not have gone through me that fast. I had an interesting twenty minutes in the scanner, keeping my buttocks clenched whilst holding my breath. Afterwards the tech told me that the fluid had gone right through me, because he could see it on the scanner, and he told me that something must be wrong for it to have acted like that.

Has anyone else had this experience and if so, is it cause for alarm? Incidentally, what is the purpose of the small bowel scan - what are they looking for?

 

[Ihurt]

I had an MRE of the small bowel and that crap I drank gave me horrid diarreha. It is NOT uncommon at all. Put it this way, if your gut was empty before the test, you drank all the stuff which I might add has a TON of artificial sweetners in it( saccarhin and sucrose) which is known to cause awful diarrhea in a lot of people. I drank the stuff and believe me, I had to run to the toliet as soon as I had the test completed. The MRE only took about 20 minutes. I had a good tech who told me if you follow directions and dont move a muscle, he could get it done in 20 minutes and he did. But that stuff went through me too. I think it is normal for it to do that. I mean you were basically drinking laxatives( that is what artificial sweetners are really, they are irritant to the intestines..).


They are looking for inflammation in the small bowel and any narrowings..

I had a small bowel mri last week and before I finished drinking the litre of clear fluid, I had to rush to the toilet to deal with a sudden attack of diarrhea. I informed the scan technician and he told me that it could not have gone through me that fast. I had an interesting twenty minutes in the scanner, keeping my buttocks clenched whilst holding my breath. Afterwards the tech told me that the fluid had gone right through me, because he could see it on the scanner, and he told me that something must be wrong for it to have acted like that.

Has anyone else had this experience and if so, is it cause for alarm? Incidentally, what is the purpose of the small bowel scan - what are they looking for?

 

[Hot Tub]

Thanks. I'm a bit puzzled - I had a colonoscopy which showed inflammation, but my specialist told me it was nothing to worry about, then sent me for a small bowel mri. If it is nothing to worry about, why the mri?

 

[xX_LittleMissValentine_Xx]

The MRI could show the full extent of the inflammation, as the colonoscopy can only go so far. Was it an abdominal or pelvic MRI scan?

 

[Hot Tub]

I am a bit late following this up! After my MRI scan I was lucky enough to see a different specialist, who was much more sympathetic, and after looking at my small bowel MRI results he told me that there was a treatment for my condition, but he needed a stool sample. I took the stool sample to the hospital and then received a follow-up appointment with my original specialist for 10 months hence! When I got to see him, he looked at my notes, asked why I was there and then told me that the stool test result was not there and discharged me! Fast forward to December 2021 and I began to experience abdominal pain, nausea, feeling full-up after eating, massive flatulence and muscle pain, tiredness and weakness. I saw my GP in early January and he sent me for a cat scan on my abdominal organs and then a gastroscopy, both of which showed negative results. He then told that there was nothing wrong and to monitor the situation.

For the last month I have been experiencing (in addition to the same symptoms) a need to pass stools several times a day, which sometimes consist of mucus. I am trying to get a GP appointment, but with no luck so far (I suspect that he thinks I am a time waster). My question is: what is wrong, and what was the inflamed are of my bowel caused by when I had my colonoscopy years ago, and what was found in the small bowel MRI that required treating? What was the proposed treatment? AND is this what has caused my current problem?

 

[Bufford]

I had a small bowel mri last week and before I finished drinking the litre of clear fluid, I had to rush to the toilet to deal with a sudden attack of diarrhea. I informed the scan technician and he told me that it could not have gone through me that fast. I had an interesting twenty minutes in the scanner, keeping my buttocks clenched whilst holding my breath. Afterwards the tech told me that the fluid had gone right through me, because he could see it on the scanner, and he told me that something must be wrong for it to have acted like that.

Has anyone else had this experience and if so, is it cause for alarm? Incidentally, what is the purpose of the small bowel scan - what are they looking for?

I have a colostomy, and the last time ( and all those scans before requiring this contrast fluid) I had an MRI, right after getting out of the scanner I had no fewer than 11 trips to the toilet; 9 times in the hospital, and two more at the side of the road on the way home. There was no warning, the bag would just fill up in no time.

 

[Hot Tub]

Jesus! I feel for you. When one takes the time to look around, many people are living with difficult medical conditions.