Experiences with

Barium test

I have acid reflux and am taking lansoprazole. I have had barium meal and endoscopy which showed nothing of significance. I am losing weight week by week and am now under seven stone. I have a doctors appointment next week but just wondered if anyone else has had this and what resolved it. I feel

PAF (symptomatic in the main) for circa 18yrs and bouts roughly every 3-5 weeks for last couple of years. It was anything from 6-36 hours but could still get on with life. End of July 2024 I had to have keyhole surgery for an abdominal problem. Surgeon said he would be surprised if I didn’t get relief

This is an update to my post about choking and coughing and hoarseness. I had so many comment on that post. There were were many, many wonderful suggestions and lots of input. Instead of being referred to a speech pathologist, the primary doctor I'm seeing, not a neurologist, because I'm spending winter

Hello and Thank You, Since start of December had persistent 24/7 symptoms of throat irritation which led to considerable chest pain and fever. Doc prescribed difflam and gaviscon. Took that until 20th after which throat got sorer variably (mostly up behind the soft palette always rather than lower)

My poor Dad is 7 years into MSA-C he’s fighting so hard to maintain a quality of life but it’s getting harder & harder. Dad has been in hospital 4 x this year chest & urine infections & as I have read on here each time he goes in he comes back home worse than before. A real problem we are having currently

Hello everyone, Just wondering, those of you with reflux... how often have you had an endoscopy to check for Barrett's etc? I last had an endoscopy a little over five years ago and didn't have Barrett's then, but was wondering if I need to have one again at some point, as my reflux is much worse

I think I am maybe looking some advice, or perhaps some reassurance from anyone going through similar... I feel quite deflated lately. I have had intestinal/abdominal issues since I was about 17 when I was hospitalised. I am almost 30 now and still dealing with the pains. At 17 I had all sorts of testing

I take one or two small Brazil nuts every day because I have hashimoto and it was advised for selenium which is lacking in thyroid patients. I read of someone whose doctor told them they had high levels of barium which affects memory and the doctor had no idea how you can rid the body of barium. This

Hello I was wondering if anybody here could just give me some insight I have systemic lupus and secondary sjorgrens with hypermobility syndrome I had a barium swallow five years ago and the barium took four hours to go through which showed slow transit sclerodoma dysmotality and pseudo succulation

Hi I am 8mths post operation, chemo. In August I started to get discomfort occasionally when eating, then acid reflux and regurgitation. I was referred for an endoscopy and possible dilation. 4 weeks ago endoscopy preformed, not able to have dilation as to much food present from 24hrs before. Another

Ralph's had the most amazing few days. On Tuesday he had the swallow x-ray and the speech therapist was amazed at the results. Firstly he gave him some sour tasting stuff, which Ralph insisted he tried to see how horrible it was, lol. Then he had barium mixed with water, then barium with yoghurt then

I have stage 3a CKD. I had a kidney removed in 2022 due to renal cell carcinoma. I am currently having scans every 6 months. I have asked for no contrast due to my reaction to it, and the doctors has sent in the orders without contrast, however my upcoming scan is scheduled to taken with Barium contrast

Ralph doing well and happy with progress. Last Tuesday SALT said leave cuff down for 24 hours from Thursday to Friday morning, and if that went well, leave it down all weekend unless he was in distress. Then the plan was to put in a fenestrated cuffless trachy this Wednesday coming. Best laid plans etc

Hi all, I joined this forum to remain on top of developments around the complex pelvic floor issues affecting women and to seek support from others. In my experience these are generally poorly understood by doctors in the UK especially at consultant level and there is an absence of multi agency support

I experience periods which are rather unnerving. My toes on one or both of my feet curl up. I take 25-100 C/L at 9am, Noon, 3pm, 6pm 9pm, a 50-200 C/L extended release a Midnight, and two 25/100s (one of them an extended release )3-5 hours later. With all of the vitamins and supplements, I sometimes

I take gabapentum 300 mgm near bedtime. I think I’ll ask mycdrcfor some valium also. I’ll take it away from the gabapentum

Lung function test is normal, barium swallow test (not with food, just the barium drink) is also normal. Ultrasound shows mild enlarged thyroid. Could this be the cause? 3. I read somewhere that fasting for more than 10 hours will affect iron concentration.

Does anyone have experience switching benzodiazepines? My Psychiatrist wants me to switch from Valium to Xanax and even though I’ve been on it before I’m scared of just straight switching. I’m also scared of tapering. I’m just terrified of overdose or bad withdrawals. I have bad health fears. Anyone

How can I get a rough idea if anxiety and depression is causing my nausea and constipation? I was a heavy drinker for a few years and benzodiazepines for a year but stopped 6 months ago and that’s when I started having problems I have been suffering from nausea for 6 months and constipation for 3 months

hello I had an endoscopy done today as I have near enough constant nausea it’s been going on for 5 months and I’m also suffering from constipation. Nothing was found today anyway and have been told it would be good to get a barium swallow. I’m just extremely worried about side effects I have very bad