Small bowel follow through

Ok i feel really dumb asking this. But if i dont ask i wont know. Exactly what is a small bowel follow through? How do they do that? I thought with having an endoscopy they would see into my small bowel pretty good. But from what i can tell on the diagram they did not get to see exactly where i am hurting. I do know that on the xrays it shows there are sutures where my appendix was removed like a year ago. And that area hurts. Ive got several places that hurt could that be from where they did the biopsies? Im just so ready to stop hurting.

Hi Bucko. There's a lot of different tests with a lot of different terminologies, and it can get pretty confusing. First of all, there are different types of endoscopies and I don't know which type you had. Most upper GI endoscopies only go as far as the duodenum, because it's impossible to get any lower without more specialist techniques, e.g. double balloon enteroscopy, capsule endoscopy. This Wiki article provides a decent overview: /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteroscopy

A small bowel follow through is an x-ray examination of your small bowel. You drink barium, a chalky white liquid, to make your bowels show up more clearly in x-ray images. Over the course of the next 2-3 hours, as the barium travels through you, you'll have x-rays of your abdomen taken every so often. Here is a decent overview of the different types of barium tests:
/patient.info/health/barium-swallowmealfollow-through

I have had SBFTs in the past, but the last one was about 10 years ago so I don't remember much about it, other than it seeming to take forever. The barium is a bit grim, but if you can get down Moviprep you can get down barium.