@Jaypea posted:Don't think you need a scope...they don't show small bowel anyway. A CT scan with contrast would do the trick. Fingers crossed for you that your travel can go ahead. Please read your travel insurance very well as if you did need to go into hospital for a SBO and your insurance company found out it was a "pre-existing condition" they may not cover you for any expenses....that being said, some countries don't charge much at all for hospital stays etc.
Best of luck and bon voyage.
I wonder if this is a pre-existing condition. I haven't had any medical treatment or recognition of what I think may be occurring here. But then again, I am pre-disposed to a greater risk of SBO, so perhaps the insurance will treat it that way. I will be in South Korea in April, followed by Aruba, and then in June, Italy, Greece, Montenegro and Croatia for several weeks. I'm truly hoping not to end up in any hospitals abroad, or even back home for that matter. But, I do feel like food isn't passing smoothly and I'm feeling the type of knots I felt before I had a full SBO that required surgery a decade ago.