Jeesh this is scary - anyone know about HIDA scans??

Hey Terri,  I have always meant to tell you that I love your avie, and wished that is what I looked like on the scales, lol.  What do you mean about not throwing up after GBS? AmyBeth

oh, and laying on the table may be a pain, but you might ask if they use an injector to inject the cholecystokinin over time or if they hand inject. if they hand inject, you will feel the worst nausea you have ever experience in your lifetime for about 3-5 minutes. if they use a timed injector, it won't go in as fast and won't feel the nausea. and the iv stick pinches. other than that, you're good.

Pain wise, usually right upper quadrant pain like you are describing is your GB. even if you get pain from vitamins, your GB is still contracting to push bile into your intestine to digest your vitamins. usually with an ulcer you feel better when you eat bc the food takes up some of the acid and diverts it from going to the ulcer. plus if an ulcer your pain would be more on the left side. hope this helps! you'll do great!!

scheduling wise, they have to order the isotope in advance, so you may have to wait until monday to schedule. we don't do weekend scans here unless your an inpatient. good luck!

ok so here's the skinny - they couldn't get me in today. they already had a full sked - no surprise there.  I was just hoping. As for the radio isotope - they could get it within about an hour so that wasn't a problem.  they told me I could come and wait but I wasn't about to do that since it had to be NPO midnite...no way - my veins would have shriveled up and then I would have been a pin cushion while they tried to start an IV on me....tell me this - why can't we drink water up until a couple of hours before the procedure since our pouches are like funnels - the water drains right out..... they told me I had to stop eating drinking 6 hrs ahead so I'm getting up at about 330am to down a bottle so I don't have as many vein problems... Tara

they want the gallbladder 'full' kinda. water will even activate the gb i think, so they want your gb to be ready for the test. i know we're now different and it might be ok bc the water goes thru us faster, but the bad thing is there really isnt a protocol for WLS patients to have a different prep than non-WLS patients. like, there isn't a study to prove otherwise, so technically there could be some lee-way but its not a for sure thing. that's my guess!!! good luck!