during your fill with flouroscope.....

JC_GODOLPHINS · October 17, 2003

did you see your pouch?? How did it look? I had my fill yesterday, not that bad an experience, except for the part of seeing a huge needle sticking out of my belly. Anyway, my pouch seemed pretty big. Just wanted to know if anyone saw theirs, what it looked like.

Oh yeah, he put in about 4cc's, and then pulled out some and left a total of 1.5 cc's in there. I feel some restriction, but nothing major.

donali · October 17, 2003

My doc video tapes the fluoroscopy procedure, and then gives the tape to the patient. So yes, I have seen my pouch, and have 4 video tapes of fills!

When filled with barium I thought the pouch looked bigger than I expected, but when I'm totally closed off, the pouch size is only two large swallows of barium big, which is pretty small in reality.

Alexandra · October 17, 2003

It's funny you should ask this. I had the same initial thought looking at my stomach on the screen, but then I realized that the perspective was not what I thought. How did I know that? I could see the clips of my bra up there on the screen, and they were HUGE! So I got to compare the pouch and band with the clips on my bra, and that's when I realized how small the pouch really is.

Plus, as Donali mentioned, there was no question that it took only three good-sized swallows to fill me up completely when the stoma was closed. THAT was very enlightening. :cool: