aftermath

[arguchik]

either the barium sulfate they made me drink or the contrast dye they injected via IV for my CT scan yesterday really did a number on my intestines. it could be that they use nutra sweet as part of the flavoring in the barium sulfate suspension. nutra sweet and i do not get along. or...my body is just getting rid of these foreign substances the best way it knows how. bleah. i feel completely emptied out, and abdominally uncomfortable--enough so, that i'm cancelling the run i had planned for this morning. hopefully i'll be back to normal tomorrow.

p.s. wiki says that an abdominal CT scan doses you with 5.3 mSv of radiation, versus 0.2mSv for a chest X-ray. that seems like a lot to me...

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Le Poop Blanc

[drjohn.livejournal.com]

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/203643.html

Re: Le Poop Blanc

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

aha, thank you. they list constipation as the more common side effect; i had the opposite. pretty bad abdominal cramping along with it, too, last night and this morning.

do i really need to have this done every single year? seems to me like every 2 years, or even every 3 years, would be sufficient.

i just love having a rare condition. nobody knows whether i'll develop PMP, how soon it might show up, or how fast it might develop into a "big problem."