how do they do a stomach ultrascan?
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Put a lil jelly on your belly, using this wand that looks like a microphone, they roll it around ur tummy, using ultra sonic waves that create an image of your insides, onto the screen and ta da.
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I believe you only need a couple of hours to go to the hospital for the x rays...and most of that is for registering and waiting.  You can call the docs office or the radiology dept where you are going to ask. I am a nurse and the gastric emptying studies I have seen are just xrays that take a few minutes.
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The doctor ordered this because of your symptoms/complaints.  A gastric emptying study is a procedure measures the speed with which food empties from the stomach and enters the small intestine. The study is used for testing patients who are having symptoms that may be due to slow or rapid emptying of the stomach.
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My younger sister has one in her arm and has had it for over 20 years, she is 28.  If i remember correctly they inject a dye in your body and then do the scan, the reason the whole body is done, is once you have one you may be more susceptible to more and the dye will show any more that are developed.
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Ask your doctor about stripping the membranes.  It is basically a rough exam where he/she pushes around inside of you to help things move along.  It is uncomfortable, but well worth it to get the little bun out of the oven.  Worked like a charm for me with my second one.
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I'm not a sonographer, but I am a registered x-ray tech and nuclear medicine technologist.  It is completely plausible that a bowel loop could superimpose an ovary.  This is especially likely if you are hyposthenic (that's medical speak for really skinny).  People who are hyposthenic tend to have their internal organ lay more midline and the bowels lay lower.  In comparison to a hypersthenic person (fat person) their internal organs tend to be situated more laterally and higher, that's the reason that bigger people have trouble breathing, their abdominal organs are pressing on their diaphragm.  \n   During a pelvic or transvaginal ultrasound the sonographer wants your bladder full because it tends to press all the anatomy out in better display, and the echogenicity of the full bladder helps differentiate anatomy as well.  \n   But like I said, ultrasound isn't my exact forte, I have alot of freinds who are sonographers, you pick up on a little of it.  I would definitely voice any questions to the sonographer that performs your test.
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no. you will need a laposcopy, to see it. an ultrasound will only at best show a shadowing and a cat scan will do nothing. Your doctor sounds like a drug dealer, please see a gynecologist.
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It's an ultrasound scanner.\n\nIt works by sending out a wave of very high frequency sound waves into the body. The sound waves are reflected back from boudaries between fluid and solid matter, where the physics of sound waves affects how the wave travels. The 'echo' is detected by the scanner and displayed graphically on a screen.\n\nUsed by radiographers in the UK and ultrasonographers / sonographers in the US.
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The answer to your question requires much information you have left out.  The best answer will come from a Gastroenterolgist or Internal Medicine Specialist.  You can look them up in the Yellow Pages.\n\nDo not ask a 'regular' doctor or GP.  That is like asking the Missouri weaterman about weather in China.  Better than asking the man in the street, but not nearly as good as asking someone who has extensive experience in China.\n\nAlways ask the most expert person when that is possible.\n\nYour condition sounds serious enough that you should carefully avoid amateurs and get only expert advice.
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A doctor inserts a tube into your mouth, and runs it through your esophogus, through the stomach, and into the duodenom (upper intestines). The doctor then can detect polyps, damage, tumors, etc, and he can also biopsy troubled areas. You will be required to be on a liquid-only diet for 24 hours, and then you can eat or drink nothing after midnight before the procedure. You will also be given laxatives to clear out your digestive system completely.\n\nFor the procedure, you will be given a spray to numb your throat and gag reflex. You will also be given a medication that will make you relaxed but you will still be awake during the procedure. The doctor will need you to help get the tube down. \n\nThe whole thing takes about 30 minutes. You won't be able to eat until the numbing spray wears off. Good luck!
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A barium meal, also known as a barium swallow or an upper gastrointestinal series is a procedure in which radiographs (x-rays) of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum are taken after barium sulfate is ingested by a patient. Barium meals are useful in the diagnosis of structural and motility abnormalities of the foregut.\n\nThere are two varieties of barium meal, these being single and double contrast meals. A single contrast meal uses only barium, a radiopaque (or positive) contrast medium, to image the upper gastrointestinal tract while a double contrast meal uses barium as well as a radiolucent (or negative) contrast medium such as room air, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide. The double contrast meal has the advantage of demonstrating mucosal details and is much more useful as a diagnostic test allowing the detection of small mucosal lesions such as diverticula or polyps.\n\nEsophageal cancers grow from the wall of the esophagus into the opening of the esophagus, creating a tumor or bump inside the esophagus. A barium swallow test can show irregularities in the normally smooth surface of the esophageal wall. Barium in liquid form is used to coat the esophagus wall before the x-ray is taken, allowing the x-ray to show the esophagus clearly.\n\nA barium swallow test is often the first diagnostic test in people with trouble swallowing. It can be used to identify both early and advanced cancers, although early cancers (before symptoms occur) are often found by accident while having the test for another reason. In the barium x-ray, early cancers can look like small round bumps. They also can appear as a flat, raised area called a plaque. These masses will cause the barium to coat the affected area of the esophagus unevenly. Advanced cancers look like large irregular areas and cause a narrowing of the width of the esophagus. A barium swallow test cannot be used to determine how far a cancer may have spread outside of the esophagus.\n\nA barium swallow test can also be used to diagnose one of the more serious complications of esophageal cancer called a tracheoesophageal fistula. This occurs when the tumor destroys the tissue between the esophagus and the trachea (windpipe) and creates a hole connecting the swallowing and breathing tubes. This leads to frequent coughing and gagging, and can be repaired with surgery or an endoscopy procedure.\n\nThere are six tests that are performed on the blood when assessing a patient for thyroid cancer. They are:\n\na. T3\nb. T3 resin uptake\nc. T4\nd. thyroid scan\ne. TSH\nf. TSI\n\nA search of endoscopy facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico turned up at least six hospitals.
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its weird but hopfully u have a nice doctor who knows how to take ur mind of the situation. they tell you to undress and put on the hospital gown. you'll get in the chair and put ur feet in the stirrups. they'll probably give you a breast exam first. press on them feeling for lumps. they may press ur tummy and pelvis as well checking for discomfort. making sure ur uterus is OK. then they'll examine ur vulva (the outside of ur privates). they put a finger or two in side u to examine you manually. then they'll use an instrument whose name i do not recall to open the vagina and swab for infection and check for any abnormalities. thats all i remember.  good luck
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You really need to go see a regular doctor to have all this evaluated properly.  It should not hurt to eat, and the technician who did the ultrasound is not qualified to make any sort of interpretation of the ultrasound results.  That should have come from a radiologist at the very least, and been gone over with you by the doctor who ordered the test.  It's tough to say if it is actually your gallbladder causing  the problem, since pain from the gallbladder in women usually causes pain in the upper right back, just about the shoulder blade level.  Although a blockage of the duct leading from the gallbladder to the stomach is certainly possible, the time frame after eating is about right,  it may also be treatable.  The blockage would most likely be caused by stones, and some can even be dissolved with medication.  Worst case and you require surgery, removing a gallbladder is not actually that bad anymore.  The best advice I can give you is to  choose a good physician and make an appointment for a full evaluation.  Take all the papers you have now, all the test results, dates, etc, plus a list of any questions you have.  You do not have to continue suffering pain after you eat.  There's nothing to be afraid of, gall bladder problems are common enough and treatable.  If the nurse practitioner isn't willing to help you, find somebody who will.
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they weigh them in then visually scan them
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Had to go look this one up.  Lavage is a french word for wahing out.  In this procedure they hook up a breast pump to draw the liguid out.  They analyze that one and if the test comes back questionable, then they do the lavage.  They insert a tiny tube into the breast and wash out the ducts.  They collect this fluid and analyze it.  This is  like a pap smear for the breast.  They do deaden the area to minimize the discomfort.  Are you having one done?  I have honestly never heard of this procedure.
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I'm no doctor, Diva, but I've had a careful examination of my own larynx done at least twice before and I can tell you that the optimal test is a visual one: insertion of a fibre-optic scope to view the larynx on a video monitor. There is even a connecting tool that can take biopsies, depending on what the examining physician (invariably an ear, nose and throat specialist) is looking for. The test itself is unpleasant, as the scope is inserted into one of the nostrils and then goes way down the back of your throat. And yes, you are conscious the entire time because the doctor will need you to speak, swallow, etc. during the actual procedure. There is an anesthetic spray used but, trust me, you feel it and it does take a while to examine everything (including vocal chords, pharynx, trachea, etc.). That said, there are several very serious medical conditions associated with this and you very definitely need to have this procedure done. Please look into it right away. And keep me posted, ok? You know how to reach me, m'lady, so please do not hesitate to do so if I can be of any further assistance. Be well.
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Stomach and Large Intestine are the important ones.