<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I found the following post in a newsgroup. Is this still how they are done? Are today's methods more sophisticated? What sort of response should I post as a follow-up? Don Wiss. (P.S. I've not been biopsied.) From: [log in to unmask] (JD) Newsgroups: alt.support.crohns-colitis Subject: Re: Barium enema exams - dangerous? Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 18:46:13 GMT Leon Heller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >BTW, has anyone had a Carey's capsule investigation? I had to swallow >a steel thing about the size of a small egg with a very long plastic tube >attached. When this had gone from the stomach into the small intestine the >tube was pressurised with water at intervals, and a small cutter on the >capsule collected a biopsy of the gut lining. When they got the biopsies >they needed the doctor pulled the thing back up again. The first time they >did this the tube got a kink in it, so they had to try again a few days >later. I had to jump up and down for about half an hour to get the thing >down into the intestine. This was over 25 years ago, perhaps they don't >do this any more. God! I hope not. :) jd