Well glad you got that over and done with DeeTee, Now I hope you get the
results you want and that they will be able to tell just what the heck is
going on with you and can fix it.

Congratulations on surviving another test.  I'm beginning to wonder if this
isn't all some bizarre endurance challenge for you!

Praying for some needed answers this time.

TGIFridays!  now, that's what i call rewarding yourself, as you so richly
deserve to!  i'll be hanging in there and waiting with you, hon.
everything's still crossed and prayerful thoughts still active and candles
still lit for you.

kate

The capsule endoscopy was ... interesting. We had to get up at 0430 to be at
the hospital by 0645. I was wired up with electrodes all over my tummy and
up underneath my breasts - almost like an EKG. Then a harness was put on
over my clothes and the monitor/storage device placed in a pouch on the
harness. Interesting with wires coming out from under my blouse and up out
of my slacks and all hooking to the monitor/storage thingy. The camera was
the size of a largish vitamin. No problem for me to swallow at all. I was
free to go do what I normally do in the course of a day - with a few
restrictions. The hardest part of the whole test was the forbidding of water
or anything else by mouth for two hours after swallowing the camera, then
clear liquids, then light meal. I lasted about one hour before I had to take
a sip of water. Then I was okay for the second hour. The clear liquids were
boring but welcomed, the light meal was just a teaser. After eight hours, we
returned to the hospital to have all of it removed except the camera.
That'll come out when it's good and ready and (Thank Goodness!!) I don't
have to recover and return it. We stopped at TGI Fridays on the way home
from the hospital and fed me! I love their French Onion Soup and had been
dreaming of it all day. Man, was it especially good this time! And chicken
quesadillas. LOL

Now we're back in the waiting mode. I know that the doctor received the
films the morning after the test, but don't know when he will actually get
to sit down and look at them. Since the camera took about 50,000 frames, I'm
assuming it'll be a streaming video for him to watch. I will, of course,
post as soon as we hear anything. In the meantime, the saga continues...

DeeTee

fascinating, dee tee! that sounds like the easiest of all the tests
you've had. i hope it's the one to give you some answers as well..

diane