Re: Barium swallow results

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transplant doc ordered upper GI's for me -- no GERD

recently saw GI doc, c/o swallowing and other stuff, he did endoscopy -- found hiatal hernia that could be causing reflux

Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania

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Subject: Re: Barium swallow resultsTo: Breathe-Support Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 11:04 AM

BethNow that is shocking but great news. Curious as to who ordered thebarium swallow (assume an Upper GI plus some?).I haven't talked to my current gastroenterologist about the subject ofupper GI's as he's never suggested one and my previous thought they wereof little to no use even though my Primary did order them several times.Since they do not want to check my GERD through putting anything in myesophagus, might be interesting just to see what one would indicate.Also, never did the turning around in circles to slosh it bit....lol>> Hello all,> Boy efficiency is there middle name over there at Duke. I wasscheduled to have

my barium swallow at 9:30 this morning and we wereactually underway by 9:20.> Bottom line?> After an hour of drinking barium, and going through a series of semiacrobatic contortions, then using the fizzy stuff and drinking water(reminds me of Pop Rocks, it's meant to fill my esophogus with air butthen the tell me not to burp....who thinks this stuff up?) then lyingflat and drinking more barium out of a sports bottle with astraw....then turning round in circles (to "mix the stomach contents"LOL) and lying on my left side, my back, my right side my stomach and onand on and on. After all that they found not a single sign of any refluxat all, much less GERD.> The radiologist doing the test was baffled which is why he kept goingover it and making me do more stuff and drink more of that vile junk.But he could find nothing at all. He speculated that the reflux I hadpreviously may have had

more to do with the prednisone than anythingelse and now that I've been off for so long whatever was happening hasstopped. It's as good a theory as any I suppose.> So I will talk to my primary about stopping the omeprazole. Ifthere's no need for it, I'd prefer not to take it.>> That's it for now. I leave in about an hour for rehab. Will update youall later!>> Beth> Moderator> Fibrotic NSIP 06/06 Dermatomyositis 11/08>

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Hi Beth,Thanks for the details of what you went through for the Barium Esophagram, I'm scheduled to have it done tomorrow morning and then Monday I am going in for the Esophgeal manometry and 24-hour PH monitoring. I have been reading about some of these tests for GERD and the Barium Esophagram is a poor test for documenting inflammation of esophagus and its unreliable in detecting reflux. See the attached document from the Hopkins Medicine. C_53_Familial IPF_5/09WashingtonTo: Breathe-Support Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 7:57:42 AMSubject: Barium swallow results

Hello all,

Boy efficiency is there middle name over there at Duke. I was scheduled to have my barium swallow at 9:30 this morning and we were actually underway by 9:20.

Bottom line?

After an hour of drinking barium, and going through a series of semi acrobatic contortions, then using the fizzy stuff and drinking water (reminds me of Pop Rocks, it's meant to fill my esophogus with air but then the tell me not to burp....who thinks this stuff up?) then lying flat and drinking more barium out of a sports bottle with a straw....then turning round in circles (to "mix the stomach contents" LOL) and lying on my left side, my back, my right side my stomach and on and on and on. After all that they found not a single sign of any reflux at all, much less GERD.

The radiologist doing the test was baffled which is why he kept going over it and making me do more stuff and drink more of that vile junk. But he could find nothing at all. He speculated that the reflux I had previously may have had more to do with the prednisone than anything else and now that I've been off for so long whatever was happening has stopped. It's as good a theory as any I suppose.

So I will talk to my primary about stopping the omeprazole. If there's no need for it, I'd prefer not to take it.

That's it for now. I leave in about an hour for rehab. Will update you all later!

Beth

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