Posted 3/13/2016 10:30 PM (GMT 0)
Hello-
Initially I was happy and very surprised to hear from my MRE that I have no active disease. This means Entyvio has been successful. Prior to increasing my infusions to 4 weeks apart I had a ton of disease in my small bowel- primarily my jejunum. The past few months and the need for iron infusions and cal protection levels rising my gi wanted to do an MRE. I have been having increased pain, nausea and soooo tired. So, I suspected we would find something with the MRE.
The MRE reads as such- "positive dissension of small bowel and colon, contrast seen in colon, stomach and distal small bowel, but did not opacify the proximal small bowel. No active inflammation in the duodenum, colon or stomach."
Is it me or is this exam totally missing the jejunum? Isn't the goal that the contrast opacifies the WHOLE bowel? If it does not how can they even determine I don't have disease in the proximal small bowel? Is this an error by the tech, is there so much disease there that the contrast didn't show up?
I'm happy, confused and pretty frustrated all in one. I just don't want the most major part of where my disease has been to not be studied.
Also, it was a poorly done exam. I waited almost 30 minutes after my last sip of oral contrast before I entered the scanner. Isn't this a time sensitive exam? Also found it interesting that when they injected the "g" word drug (cant remember the name) they did it IM rather than through the IV.
Any MRE experts out there?
Thanks!!