Edit: This is a gastric emptying study I had done to test for gastroparesis! It’s a nuclear medicine test that measures how quickly food leaves the stomach, typically to diagnose conditions like gastroparesis (slow emptying) or rapid emptying. You eat a meal (in my case eggs) containing a tiny amount of radioactive tracer, and a gamma camera tracks its movement over 2–4 (4 for me) hours to determine the rate of digestion. If more than 10% of the food remains in your stomach after four hours, it
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Edit: This is a gastric emptying study I had done to test for gastroparesis! It’s a nuclear medicine test that measures how quickly food leaves the stomach, typically to diagnose conditions like gastroparesis (slow emptying) or rapid emptying. You eat a meal (in my case eggs) containing a tiny amount of radioactive tracer, and a gamma camera tracks its movement over 2–4 (4 for me) hours to determine the rate of digestion. If more than 10% of the food remains in your stomach after four hours, it
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