@melissa111 posted:I wonder if they ever take care of a blockage by suctioning it out with a endoscope, if it is close enough to your anus that they could get the scope up the where the blockage is. That's what I always imagined they'd do, but I guess they don't?
I get blockages a lot, have for 20 years. The best results I’ve had are when the GI does a scope with balloon and stretches open the stricture that the food has packed up against. They don’t suction it out, but once the pipe is opened … it works 😀. Usually I go to the ER, get on morphine for the crazy pain, get in a bed, and then have the scope after a couple days to see if it clears on its own first.
Thats a pretty recent development though for me. For years prior it was an NG tube and time. I’ve not heard of the contrast and magnesium before.
NG tubes are the worst though. My total blockages resolve themselves after a few days in the hospital on pain control. Partial blockages usually resolve at home on Percocet. Frankly I’d rather wait it out than NG. I once had an NG in for three weeks waiting for a blockage to clear..maybe that “scarred” me mentally from ever wanting one again heh. After that amount of time salt crystals and dried snot were forming on the tube and ripping up my sinus and nose internally. Not to mention the awful back of your throat choking sensation.