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How bad is the 48 hour stool collection for fat and bile?
Digestive Health | Last Active: Sep 12 10:48am | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
wow wish my gastro doc would do those tests....she absolutely said no and basically threw colistopol at me and said here try this for 8 weeks see if it helps. She seems to think I had classic sysmptoms of BAM even tho as she listed symptoms i'm shaking my head no in response. once she saw i had my gallbladder removed and had diarreha she made that diagnosis. Even after saying can we take these two tests to verify before i shove drugs in my system? nope would not do. she said go to a functional medicine doctor and have them order the tests if you want them. So went to my PCP who is a PA and has special interest/certificate iin functional medicine. and she ordered them. unfortunately the lab at the clinic doesn't do these and we are geetting the run around with mayo clinic. mayo clinci said yes she can order the tests to be done with mayo and they cna be mailed in...she just needs to do the collection and I can mail it in to mayo. but when she called she was told no but Quest Diagnostics does them you will have to go thru them. But when I went to quest they don't do the 48 hr test as the code number we have from mayo doesn't show up in their system. she said check with mayo thye probably have the code wrong. Well quest has the test when I type in the name of it for the 48 hr stool test but it it's description it says it a serum collection. So WTF people? So very frustrating. Right now am waiting for an email from Mayo to advise where to get this test done! And some will need to give me the collection kit if i am to collect poop for 2 days!
Where are you getting it done? have heard in this forum others get it done, but nobody is answering yet this week on where they got it done.
hopefully your my hero of the day!
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First, the GI is with Stanford University and the referral was to Quest ... but remember this was
for the 72 hour test. My health care provider is actually Sutter Health, and in the past they have done my lab work even if it was ordered by an out of network provider like Stanford. I started at Sutter health labs. They gave me the plastic bucket , but told me that only Quest did the test locally and I should drop the bucket off at Quest when it was ready. My drop off day was Sunday and all convenient test offices were closed. Rather than hold on to the specimen another minute, I went back to the Sutter Lab and they apparently sent it on to Quest. The results came back in about a week.
I know this is very detailed, but I hope it might help you somehow. t appears I th
the bottom line is that the test is unpleasant for the patient and technician The FE test is much less unpleasant, and it's gradually becoming all that is available outside amazing facilities like the Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medical Center.
Ironically, after all this, it was very clear that I have a significant problem with steatorrhea. I wondered whether it was worth the effort, but my GI became clear about how to proceed with my care. Subsequently, I've felt other testing is going quickly and efficiently.
The best to you.
I'm sorry that you are getting such a run-around. That's why I decided to go to Mayo, which is only a couple of hours from where I live. I was having to look up tests myself.
I did the shorter test, which is both a serum and a single fecal test, but it was inconclusive & I have classic symptoms. Maybe that is the test that required the serum?
I'm getting it done at Mayo Rochester, but I can do the samples at home. I just am not sure how I'm going to collect it - it sounds like I'll be spending 2 days in the bathroom.
Good luck!
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had the 7aC4 test done at labcorp just yesterday so waiting for that result. They didn't do the stool test but did say when they inquired that Quest does it..hahahaha.