DarknessEmbraced wrote:Thank you Green Tea! That is very helpful! I was told that I only needed to not take any medications which affect motility. I won't take dicetel or buscopan. Is that list of medications ones I can't take? I can't have anything to eat or drink for 12 hours before the test. So that means nothing after 8:15pm. I will have to wake up early that day so that I can call the taxi and get to the hospital by 8am. I will have to do covid screening before I will be allowed in which takes a few minutes. I have the mirena iud but that's it.
No, that list (in my last post) is a list of all meds that you have ever taken in the past, according to what you have said in past posts. What you need to do is go through that list and note which meds are designed to affect bowel motility and make sure you are not taking any of them. The prohibited meds would include the two that you have already mentioned (Dicetel and Buscopan) plus others like Colace, Imodium, Lax-a-Day, etc. Also, any high-strength prescription pain meds should probably not be taken because they can lead to constipation. Just check your medicine cabinet and see what you have there for speeding up or slowing down bowel movement. The other meds on the list ( for asthma, thyroid, etc ) probably would be OK to take, but check with your doctor just in case.
The difficult part of the test seems to be that the test is 4 hours long and you have to show up at Radiology on time for each of the scans they need to do. So there is the problem of what to do with your spare time while you are waiting for the next hourly scan. You can't go out to Starbucks for a latte because you are not allowed to eat or drink anything during the 4 hour test period. So, what are you going to do to pass the time away and keep warm until the next scan? Does the hospital have a lounge or a waiting room?
I would also suggest that you plan to have easy-to-digest meals from now until Tuesday night so that your bowel is not all backed up by the time you have to start fasting. You can call the doctor or the hospital on Monday to see if they have any last minute instructions or advice on what to do or not to do over the next few days.
Best wishes for a good Gastric Emptying Test !