Your symptoms don't keep clinic hours.
Maybe your stomach is fine on Tuesday and awful on Friday. Maybe the bad days never seem to land on the day of the test. GutTracker was built for exactly that problem: it records your gut's natural activity for up to six days, at home, while you live your normal life.
One morning in a clinic is a snapshot. This is the whole film.
Your stomach and intestines run on their own natural electrical rhythm, a bit like the heart. Most gut tests measure that system for a few hours, in a clinic, on one day, and in only one region. If your symptoms come and go, a single morning can easily miss them.
GutTracker takes the measurement to where your symptoms actually happen. Three small patches record quietly, day and night, while you eat your own food, sleep in your own bed, and go to work. Your doctor then sees how your gut behaved across the whole week, not one appointment.
If you have been through test after test without a clear answer, that does not mean nothing is happening. It may mean the measurements were not long enough to catch it. Recording over days is the difference this test is designed to make.
You eat your own food, on your own schedule.
Many gut tests begin with an overnight fast and a small, low-fat meal eaten in a clinic. GutTracker asks for neither. You eat what you normally eat, when you normally eat it, because the meals and the routines that bring on your symptoms are part of what the recording is meant to capture.
This matters more than it sounds. At Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, 48 adults wore the patches for up to six days, starting on the day of their standard emptying test. The researchers found that the conditions of a test day itself, the fast beforehand, a disrupted routine, and the stress of the appointment, may temporarily quiet the stomach's activity. They also noted that the small low-fat meal used in that test is not much like a real one. The research behind this.
Six days of ordinary life, recorded.
Three patches on the abdomen record while the patient goes about their day. The patches pair to a phone, the phone streams to a secure cloud, and the finished study returns to the ordering clinician as a report. Nothing about the day has to change.
Simple, and mostly invisible.
You wear three patches
They stick to your abdomen, like a large bandage. You can wear clothes over them and go to work.
You keep a simple diary
In a phone app, you note when you eat, how you feel, and when you have a bowel movement. That helps your doctor read the recording.
You live normally
Eat your own food, sleep in your own bed, move around. The point of the test is to measure you during ordinary life, not in a clinic.
What the measurement shows.
GutTracker measures the natural electrical activity of your stomach and intestines over several days. That can help your doctor understand how your gut is behaving over time.
What happens to your information.
The recording and your diary are sent securely to be analyzed and returned to your doctor as a report. Your information is handled under G-Tech's privacy policy.
Talk to your doctor about GutTracker.
Bring it up at your next visit, or ask your care team whether a six-day recording would help answer the question your other tests have not. Your clinician orders the study, reads the report, and decides what it means with you.