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Problem with Chronic constipation

Digestive Health | Last Active: Jun 1 9:39am | Replies (182)

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Can you define "the smart pill"?
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Smart pill is a large bullet shaped device that you swallow at your Gastro office because this device is rather large. You then eat a smart bar, fast for 6 hours and then you can eat. This smart pill takes hundreds of pictures as well as checking ph balances throughout entire digestive system. You wear a recorder for 5 days and you pass it out rectally. It has no radiation which I love. It begins recording after you swallow until you pass it. I’m going 5 days because I suffer severe chronic colon motility.

Yes. You swallow a little capsule that has a computer chip inside. You wear a transmitter. I believe it was for 3 days. So many days prior and during you cannot use anything that could affect motility such as fiber, Imodium, laxatives, etc. you have a little diary where you write down if you have any symptoms, if you have pain, have a BM, sleep, etc. You return the transmitter and at some point will poop out the capsule. The results determine how long it takes the capsule to navigate through your entire digestive system. I think it measures other things, too. It showed that I have slow transit/slow motility which is why I am always constipated. They then can better treat you.