Posted: 1/25/2016 1:33:16 AM EDT
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Have this procedure coming up soon.
They don't require the camera back. Assuming I can recover the camera from my poop is there anything I could potentially use it for? It would be such a waste to flush it down the toilet. Basically went in last year thinking it was my appendix... CT with and without contrast showed nothing. Barium trace showed nothing. Poop specimen showed nothing. Colonoscopy showed nothing. EGD showed nothing. Ultrasound showed nothing. Daily pain, discomfort and sometimes a fluttering sensation in my right iliac region. Based on all the testing I'm probably not going to die but no one can figure out what the hell is going on and how to treat me. |
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It's a sealed unit with batteries that aren't replaceable. You would also need the special receiver that will be strapped to your abdomen to actually receive the pictures and do anything with them.
Tldr, it's probably not good for much beyond a conversation piece. FYI, I'm an electrical engineer who occasionally works in ingestible electronics. |
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Have this procedure coming up soon. They don't require the camera back. Assuming I can recover the camera from my poop is there anything I could potentially use it for? It would be such a waste to flush it down the toilet. Basically went in last year thinking it was my appendix... CT with and without contrast showed nothing. Barium trace showed nothing. Poop specimen showed nothing. Colonoscopy showed nothing. EGD showed nothing. Ultrasound showed nothing. Daily pain, discomfort and sometimes a fluttering sensation in my right iliac region. Based on all the testing I'm probably not going to die but no one can figure out what the hell is going on and how to treat me. If you've had all that, not sure what the capsule is going to show. Sounds like you might be sensitive to gas, have you tried taking Gas-X (or similar simethicone product)? Clean diet? |
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It's a sealed unit with batteries that aren't replaceable. You would also need the special receiver that will be strapped to your abdomen to actually receive the pictures and do anything with them. Tldr, it's probably not good for much beyond a conversation piece. FYI, I'm an electrical engineer who occasionally works in ingestible electronics. my guess is you could unseal it, gentle work with a dremel could probably get the case off. I don't know about the receiver but my guess is it's a common or discoverable frequency and is probably not encrypted or anything. what you would do with all that stuff? no clue. I dont' know what the lens, clarity, FOV etc is, but a FPV camera on a drone, low power security camera if you could rig it to a dvr maybe. or just hook an eyelet to it, run a loop through it, and whamo: weird keychain for your wife. |
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my guess is you could unseal it, gentle work with a dremel could probably get the case off. I don't know about the receiver but my guess is it's a common or discoverable frequency and is probably not encrypted or anything. what you would do with all that stuff? no clue. I dont' know what the lens, clarity, FOV etc is, but a FPV camera on a drone, low power security camera if you could rig it to a dvr maybe. or just hook an eyelet to it, run a loop through it, and whamo: weird keychain for your wife. Quoted:
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It's a sealed unit with batteries that aren't replaceable. You would also need the special receiver that will be strapped to your abdomen to actually receive the pictures and do anything with them. Tldr, it's probably not good for much beyond a conversation piece. FYI, I'm an electrical engineer who occasionally works in ingestible electronics. my guess is you could unseal it, gentle work with a dremel could probably get the case off. I don't know about the receiver but my guess is it's a common or discoverable frequency and is probably not encrypted or anything. what you would do with all that stuff? no clue. I dont' know what the lens, clarity, FOV etc is, but a FPV camera on a drone, low power security camera if you could rig it to a dvr maybe. or just hook an eyelet to it, run a loop through it, and whamo: weird keychain for your wife. I recommend a single edge razor blade. The casing is pretty thin. I'm pretty sure the radio is in the 400 MHz MICS band, and it's a custom ASIC made by Microsemi. The modulation is FSK and uses some proprietary format, supposedly around a megabit or so. Another problem is that the transmit power is really low and the antenna is very inefficient. MICS band radios are only intended to close a 2m link. Also, from a tear down I read a while ago, it seems that the device may disable itself after one use, or possibly needs to receive commands from the base station to operate. I second the keychain idea. Make sure you tell people you found it in the toilet, preferably after they've handled it. 
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Basically went in last year thinking it was my appendix... CT with and without contrast showed nothing. Barium trace showed nothing. Poop specimen showed nothing. Colonoscopy showed nothing. EGD showed nothing. Ultrasound showed nothing. Your problem seems to be that you're missing everything inside. 
Seriously though, good luck with getting it diagnosed. Non-invasive and less-invasive procedures like that are truly amazing. |
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Your problem seems to be that you're missing everything inside.
Seriously though, good luck with getting it diagnosed. Non-invasive and less-invasive procedures like that are truly amazing. Quoted:
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Basically went in last year thinking it was my appendix... CT with and without contrast showed nothing. Barium trace showed nothing. Poop specimen showed nothing. Colonoscopy showed nothing. EGD showed nothing. Ultrasound showed nothing. Your problem seems to be that you're missing everything inside.
Seriously though, good luck with getting it diagnosed. Non-invasive and less-invasive procedures like that are truly amazing. Thanks. Physician is leaning towards IBS. Took the capsule test today... still waiting to poop. |
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You may not see it in your first poop. So be sure to carefully sift through each one for the next couple of days. If I can even manage a significant poop that is. Today the day after has been completely miserable. Intestines feel awful and I am only producing pinky finger sized poops. Which are dark green although I had a ton of green jello the day before for my liquid diet prep. Read that in some rare cases the camera can take up to two weeks to pass. With my luck an obstruction wouldn't surprise me. Thinking it might be laxative and gatorade time soon. |
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A GI doc told me that one of the funniest and most disturbing things they see on pill-cam endoscopy recordings is the view from inside the toilet as the patient leans over, contemplates for a second, and then fishes-out the pill-cam.
Not this time. The receiver was turned in long before I had my first baby poop. I still kind of want the camera. Just for the lolz if nothing else. |