You've heard of the Smart Phone, But What About The Smart Pill? Pill with a microchip that you swallow To fight Crohn's

Yes you read the title of this blog right! No you have not stepped into an episode of Fringe, or Star Trek. This is a reality The Smart Pill!

And Guess who gets to swallow this Smart Pill?! ME!!!!

Here is the info on this "Smart Pill"

Smart Pill To Fight Crohn's Disease, Colitis And Colon Cancer

The iPill (haven’t we had enough with the “i” yet?) by the newly acquired Novartis subsidiary Proteus Biomedical. The pill has embedded ingestible sensors which deliver valuable information to physicians. These sensors can track vital signs or even monitor a patients ability to stick to their medication regiment. Information from the pill is transmitted to a receiver placed on, or embedded in the skin of the patient. All this technology is powered by your own body using the energy of your stomach acid. Information from the receiver can then be sent to a patients mobile phone and then onto the Internet for your physician to view. Another key advantage of smart pills is their ability to effectively target specific areas of the stomach and intestine. This results in lower doses of drugs needed and therefore lowered side effects.

With the sale of Proteus Biomedicals, CEO Andrew Thompson will become this much closer to seeing his dream of “better, more affordable and more available” technology in the pills patients take every day. Hopefully, in the coming years. patients suffering from Crohn’s disease, colitis and colon cancer will find more effective treatments via technology.

So to put it in every day person terms, I will go to the hospital on Monday swallow this first pill to see if I have any kind of bowel obstruction, then the next day Tuesday go to have an x ray done of my abdomin to see if I pooped out the pill.  If I have passed the pill then we schedule my appointment to go and swallow the "Smart Pill" 

When I go to the appointment to swallow the Smart Pill it will be an 8 hour event. I go to the Gastro clinic swallow the pill, then wait 8 hours! Then after the 8 hours have passed return to the Gastro clinic where they will then finish the procedure. But during the 8 hours the pill will be taking pictures of my GI tract as it makes it way through my body which in turn sends the images to a computer at the Gastro clinic. 

Pretty Crazy Sci Fi stuff huh. All I can do is pray that this test is worth doing and that it will show what is going on and why I'm in so much extreme pain and whether or not the Humira Injections are working.  

As more information comes in on this procedure I will be posting more blogs and keep you all updated.  Keep praying for me friends, they are all I have to lean on as I continue my fight against this disease and the hope that God will heal me.