Gastric Emptying Study?

There were a few things found during my scope and one was that I still had food in my stomach even though I had fasted properly.  So I got a call from the hospital today to schedule a "Gastric Emptying Study".

Has anyone had one of these before?

I've never heard of it.  Did they explain what it was about at all???  Good luck with it.

Thanks jaynak.  I hadn't heard of it before either.

Apparently, I will eat some eggs that have a radioactive substance in them so as the food moves through my stomach, a camera can see what's going on.  It's painless and I don't need any sedatives.  I just get all radioactive and then chill under a special camera.

I am taking Victoza which slows stomach emptying and so I hope that's all it is.  I'll keep you posted.

Well that doesn't sound too bad.  Good luck with it and hopefully it is just the med that causing the issues, will that mean changing your med to something else????

Just thought I'd provide an update in case anyone else has to have a gastric emptying test. 

It was very easy.  The nurse prepared a scrambled egg with a bit of radioactive material in it and gave it to me with a piece of bread and a small bit of water.  I had 10 minutes to eat it and then I had to lay down and get a picture of my stomach every 12 minutes for 2 hours.

The nurse said everything looked OK but the Doctor would have to interpret the results.

And unfortunately, I had to cancel all my appointments this week because I got the absolute worst case of the stomach flu I've ever had.  It started on Friday night and my fever didn't brea****il yesterday.  So...I'm sure if there was something really wrong I would have got a phone call, but I'll be calling Dr Sampath's office tomorrow to reschedule since I'm finally functioning again.

I hope everyone else is doing well :)