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Austin Endoscopy Center
2 reviews for Austin Endoscopy Center
2 reviews in English
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Review from Steve B.
Austin, TX
Barium, Revisited (The Day after my visit to AEC)
If you DO decide to visit this wonderful establishment, it would be best to clear your calendar for the FOLLOWING day as well. This fact is left out of the glossy patient prep materials they so thoughtfully provide.
[Thoroughly gross scatological humor warning]
Here's the deal: Left undiluted, Barium has a tendency to solidify in the digestive system, useful if you'd like a post-mortem plaster cast of your colon, but not a good idea if you ever want to eat (or shit) again. So, strangely unhungry after the tests, I began drinking lots of water, & eating Ry-Krisp for a little solid food. About two hours after I got home, I discovered that in addition to being "radio-opaque" barium is also a damn good laxative.
The rest of the following day was spent alternating between ingesting water & shitting glow-in-the-dark uranium-enriched poo. Unmolested by the best efforts of my digestive system, the leaden institutional green slurry had become heavyweight identically shaded green turds, though roughly doubled in quantity. I swear I must have shat a gallon of that stuff, despite only drinking a quart or so.
I discovered that barium also befuddles the flushing mechanism of my "low-flow" toilet. Ten times heavier than ordinary shit, "ghost poo" appeared again & again after flushing, nuclear turds returning unscathed from an unsuccessful trip out of the bowl. I am far more familiar with my digestive output than I ever hoped to be. Eight to ten hours later I was still producing barium, wondering if I am subject to a nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
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12/3/2008 First to Review
Getting In Touch With Digestion
I once spent a morning here, after strict "nothing by mouth after… Read more »
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Review from Jennifer M.
Leander, TX
Updated - 9/26/2011
Austin Gastroenterology is the same place associated with Austin Endoscopy Center. I had a horrible experience with Dr. Stassen, although his nurse practitioner Jessica Ranheim is wonderful.
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6/11/2011
Don't go here unless you want your medical procedure to be like you are at the DMV. The doctor… Read more »
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