by jr2 » 11 Dec 2012, 15:19
OMB...
I'm so sorry about all that is going on. I can hardly believe the amount of bad news that keeps happening in my life too. The stress is out of the universe.
As far as the barium, because it isn't a food, your body isn't going to use it for nutrition so you have to eliminate all of it as waste. With the amount they make a person drink, that is actually quite a lot that has to come out. Along the way, water is extracted out of it by the body, making it hard and slow to pass. It is also mixing with the normal stool that is adding to it. The only way to ease the process is to add more water, more water, more water. Both in the form of drinking more water, and also by drawing more water into the bowel with an osmotic like Miralax/Movicol, or Milk of Magnesia. I think you use Lactulose. That should work too, but if it isn't doing the trick you might want to consider something else that will right now. Not sure how much more barium is left in there, but it could be worth trying something else to try and get more relief until you're sure you have passed it all through.
Wishing you relief and an easier time of things in all ways.
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