I heard about a swallow test after surgery. What does this test involve?

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Edited October 1, 201411 yr by viktoryalynne

I heard about a swallow test after surgery. What does this test involve?

Mine was a barium flouroscopy done 3 days postop. You swallow a radio opaque liquid that you can watch go down your esophagus, through your sleeve and into your intestines. It was very cool.

Other surgeons may do a more basic barium swallow radiograph. You swallow the liquid and a radiograph (or series of radiographs) is taken to see that the liquid is passing through the sleeve and that nothing is leaking out into the abdominal cavity.

The fluoroscopy is like a video, where the radiograph is like a single picture.

Edited October 1, 201411 yr by Kindle

Never heard of the swallow test.

Edited October 1, 201411 yr by viktoryalynne

Mine was a barium flouroscopy. You swallow a radio opaque liquid that you can watch go down your esophagus, through your sleeve and into your intestines. It was very cool.

Other surgeons may do a more basic barium swallow radiograph. You swallow the liquid and a radiograph (or series of radiographs) is taken to see that the liquid is passing through the sleeve and that nothing is leaking out into the abdominal cavity.

The fluoroscopy is like a video, where the radiograph is like a single picture.

It's also called an upper Gi, although it was much less involved than the upper GI I did pre-op. I wish I had been feeling better when I had mine done as the MD was ridiculously handsome. Lol.....

I had my GI test the day after surgery. just has to sip down 2 ounces, took some pictures, and 5 minutes later all done!

Thank you everyone!