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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