Anyone had a "gastric emptying study"?

This 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!!

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! :frowning:

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).

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.

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.

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: