# Anyone had a "gastric emptying study"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-had-a-gastric-emptying-study/532251 "2010-03-12T16:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-had-a-gastric-emptying-study/532251/21 "2010-03-19T22:12:14Z")
[This](http://www.norfolknuclear.com/patients/hepato2.htm) is a photo of the sort of setup I was in. The big square thingy (by this patient’s right knee) rotates around the torus to be positioned directly over the abdomen; the platform slides forward to put the abdomen directly under. Fortunately they didn’t attempt using straps with me!! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-had-a-gastric-emptying-study/532251/22 "2010-03-19T22:22:11Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I took Reglan and had an adverse reaction to it. My doc prescribed it and said to _be careful if I had any problems with motion_ - to get off of it and call him right away. I thought this meant dizziness and stuff. Nope, he meant if my legs and arms started moving uncontrollably (they did.) I had other issues with it too. > > If they put you on it, I hope your experience is better than mine. > > There are some other treatments, or at least there was one experimental treatment back when I was researching it. Basically they put in a pacemaker for the stomach. It might be worth asking about. Since my problems turned out to be something different, I did not follow up on the trials. Reglan is a dopamine antagonist, which is why us RLSers can’t take it. We need to take dopamine _agonists_ to reduce the “urge to move” and also some uncontrollable movements (I kick involuntarily in my sleep - all part of a related syndrome called Periodic Limb Movements Disorder). Sounds like you got yourself a sudden-onset and thorough case of RLS/PLMD! ☹ My take: I won’t need to do anything. This all got prompted by the fact that I developed a pretty severe nighttime cough. Doc thinks it’s my lifelong reflux taking a nasty turn, I think it’s the new BP medication she put me on (the dates suggest it’s the BP med, the time-of-day suggests it’s reflux). The symptoms of delayed emptying (bloating, mealtime “reruns”…) are at most a minor annoyance… unless the doc turns out to be right of course, LOL. At any rate, it’d be a while before I’d need to look into the pacemaker (which I too have seen mentioned online). ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-had-a-gastric-emptying-study/532251/23 "2010-03-20T14:19:05Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > nd I don’t believe the radiation is high enough to glow or be dangerous. But does it give you super powers? That’s important to know. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-had-a-gastric-emptying-study/532251/24 "2010-03-20T14:33:44Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > But does it give you super powers? That’s important to know. Ask Mama Zapa, she’s the one who’s actually got it. Apparently it at least gives you the power to like food you previously didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-had-a-gastric-emptying-study/532251/25 "2010-03-20T14:55:15Z")
Back in college I participated in a few “studies” (Micheloeb vs. Labatt?) that resulted in emptying the contents of my stomach - but I don’t think that’s what the OP has in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-had-a-gastric-emptying-study/532251/26 "2010-03-20T16:48:02Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Ask Mama Zapa, she’s the one who’s actually got it. Apparently it at least gives you the power to like food you previously didn’t. Unfortunately, that’s about the limit of the superpowers, and I suspect that has a half-life also. Oh well. **Typo Knig** found the same, when he had a radiotracer-based stress test a couple of years back. Sigh… you just can’t get good radiation overdoses any more. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-had-a-gastric-emptying-study/532251.md?page=1)