Well I had myself the pill cam procedure yesterday, dropped the recording box off this morning after another night of multiple toilet trips, watery stool and loud rumbly guts!
The procedure itself was fine except that my small intestine rejected the capsule after two hours of virtually no movement, my girlfriend and I actually saw it pop back into my stomach! It was finally on it's way again after roughly an hour of sitting at the beginning of my small intestine and a few hours later we headed home as it looked to be progressing very slowly.
The nurse who performed the procedure and viewed the images phoned me an hour ago with some rather peculiar news; she said that an hour into the journey the capsule came across "green sludge" which obviously obscured the view completely. It stayed this way even several hours into the recording, that's several hours from the time it re-entered my small intestine too! I asked the nurse what this could mean as I drank two litres of prep and had had a whole load of toilet time and extremely watery BM's before the test, although I was still bloated I figured I had to be clear. She only had time to say her opinion would be to retest but with a full prep this time and then had to leave the conversation as the consultant had arrived, she wanted his opinion before he left!
She hasn't had time to phone me back it seems but I'll phone the hospital in the morning to find out what happens from here, she was really pleasant and has said she will do all the 'legwork' for me so fingers crossed. I'll update on here as soon as I know anything, if The retest happens I may try fasting for a week this time just to make sure I'm cleared out!
The procedure itself was fine except that my small intestine rejected the capsule after two hours of virtually no movement, my girlfriend and I actually saw it pop back into my stomach! It was finally on it's way again after roughly an hour of sitting at the beginning of my small intestine and a few hours later we headed home as it looked to be progressing very slowly.
The nurse who performed the procedure and viewed the images phoned me an hour ago with some rather peculiar news; she said that an hour into the journey the capsule came across "green sludge" which obviously obscured the view completely. It stayed this way even several hours into the recording, that's several hours from the time it re-entered my small intestine too! I asked the nurse what this could mean as I drank two litres of prep and had had a whole load of toilet time and extremely watery BM's before the test, although I was still bloated I figured I had to be clear. She only had time to say her opinion would be to retest but with a full prep this time and then had to leave the conversation as the consultant had arrived, she wanted his opinion before he left!
She hasn't had time to phone me back it seems but I'll phone the hospital in the morning to find out what happens from here, she was really pleasant and has said she will do all the 'legwork' for me so fingers crossed. I'll update on here as soon as I know anything, if The retest happens I may try fasting for a week this time just to make sure I'm cleared out!