Does drinking barium for a CT scan equate to particularly bad cramping for us?

Lisey
on 7/14/11 7:00 am, edited 7/14/11 7:01 am - Milwaukee suburb, WI
I get to do this tonight & tomorrow for an abdominal & chest CT scan tomorrow.  I read the possible side effects - nasusea, cramping, etc.

Should I expect to not get a lot of sleep tonight from trips to the bathroom?  Should I expect particularly bad abdominal cramping?  Anyone have problems drinking the last 1/2 of the bottle in one go prior to leaving for the hospital?  Seems like an awful lot of liquid at once given how thick it is.

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Kayla B.
on 7/14/11 7:21 pm - Austin, TX
Lisey--I have had a couple CT scans with contrast since surgery and did not have any troubles whatsoever with drinking the liquid or cramping.  If the flavor is awful, I guess that would be the main thing leading to nausea.  I have a pretty strong stomach most of the time and did fine.  Try using a straw, too.  That generally works.
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Lisey
on 7/15/11 7:40 am - Milwaukee suburb, WI
Thanks, Kayla.  It wasn't that bad tasting, not good, but not "vomiting" awful.  Interestingly enough, though, it took me 3 - 4 minutes to drink it & within 5 minutes of finishing it, I certainly did rush to the bathroom.  I felt my tummy giving that cramping feeling along the sides of my abdomen (this is very common for me, warning that I need to go).  Other than that, just some mild cramping a handful of times last night & today.

Mild cramping is actually pretty common for me.  I remember when I had that emergency appendectomy last Aug - it had formed an adhesion around my small bowel & was stuck to my colon.  The surgeon told me that I had a lot of adhesions & he had done what he could to fix the ones he could get to easily, but didn't want to move my intestines around too much b/c they were so swollen at that time from the bowel obstruction & delayed diagnosis.  My guess is that maybe some parts are stuck together (on the outside) & so it produces mild cramping (& occasionally, really bad cramping) . . . but, this is beyond the scope of the barium question!

HW / SW / CW / GW      299 / 287160 / 140     Feb '09 / Mar '09 / Dec '13 /Aug '10          

Appendicitis/Bowel Obstruction Surgery 8/21/10
Beat Hodgkin's Lymphoma!  7/15/2011 - 1/26/2012 


Ran Half-Marathon 10/14/2012

First Pregnancy, Due 8/12/14                             I LOVE MY DS!!!
 

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