o/t Got a colonoscopy tomorrow-Any suggestions?!!

I stayed awake. Interesting experience feeling that things shoving around under your ribcage and such. Really interesting to watch the movie and see how they shove your gut around by hand to clear the way and keep on traveling.

Keep a sense of humor and the whole thing becomes downright entertaining.

The off-gassing afterwards was the worse part. They inflate you so they can see. The probe has an air supply, and they keep adding air as they travel. So you end up well puffed up by the time they are done, and to say it's uncomfortable is an understatement. You're vented to off-gas, but in my case, I didn't. So the drive home wasn't fun.

Eating afterwards restarted the stunned and stalled digestive system. Twas a noisy night as I finally started off-gassing, to my comfort. And in a few hours, I was fine.

The best part of having stayed awake for the colonoscopy and watching it is knowing what was there and how it did *NOT* match the report the doctor gave.

Mahalo,
doogdoog

My dad has gone through it though a couple times- A bit testy after the 1st time but he learned to laugh with us instead of getting mad at a few wise cracks.

Donovan from Wisconsin

>Link The crying, sobbing wailing and looks of embarrassed anguish from patients & family was horrid. I would rate getting scoped every six months in front of my Mother-in-law and the Reverend better than getting cancer and having to get a colostomy bag. Even though I was one of the rare ones with complications from the scoping. I'm still going back for another scoping someday just to ensure not ever having to wear a colostomy bag. b.t.w. I just read my report today and it was likely scar tissue from an appendectomy the physician thought was a polyp. Test results were o non malignant. There was even a colour photo of the questionable secum area in my file. The 1st scoping is the worst, afterwards you have no dignity or pride left too loose. Don't be worried about the staff. They have seen 100's of both fat and skinny *sses. It depends on the medical facility & the physician. Some are human and some are not. The humane ones knock you out. 24 hrs before the purge only eat or drink chicken soup,broth and gatoraid. The go-lighty, peglyte etc is a mix of every kind of non toxic and semi toxic salts that will mix with water. It's more palatable if chilled very cold. There was some tractor antifreeze mixed with it to sweeten it up some,propylene glycol on the container's label. I'll never look at a jug of anti freeze the same way again. You need to "run 100% clear" several times or there is no use getting scoped. You can't drink too much water either late afternoon and into the evening. You will be hooked to an IV line and a saline solution drip. You will be wheeled into the OR and if you don't need glasses to see. There will be a large color monitor or two. A metal cabinet with a glass jar catch can and some joy sticks similar to a backhoe. They will plug about 6-8ft of turbine engine or pipe inspection scope tooling into the cabinet for power and control. The scope is about 1cm in diameter with a video camera on the end, a sampling grab tool, a cauterizing wire and even the ability to insert a hyperdermic needle to inject medication where they see fit. It's the same tool used for both bottom up and top down. I assume the tool is well washed off between uses. You will be given stage 1 sedative to make you less apprehensive and asked to roll onto your port side. This is the definition of "being left with your *ss hanging out". About now you will get stage 2 sedative and after "feeling dumb as a box of rocks" for 5 seconds,it's lights out. What seems like 5 seconds later you are waking up in the recovery room and pharting like thunder. And the staff are cheering you on to make more noise. I was on the computer in the hospital library 1hr after waking from my upper scope.

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An elderly (age 90) neighbor had one recently - my wife accompanied her to/from the clinic. As the woman was being prepped for the procedure the nurse asked if she was wearing false teeth.

With a perfect deadpan the woman smiled and politely asked "and exactly how far UP are you people planning to go?"

Along the same line....my dear Grandpa was a bit constipated. He had tried several laxatives both over the counter and homemade "suggestions" from neighbors. Nothing worked. He was getting a bit testy. I finally took him some supositories that were guarenteed to work ovenight. I convinced my grandpa to try this one last fix. I checked on him the next day. He was still a bit testy. I asked him if the supositories worked. He said, I tried two of them dang things and for all the good they did I might as well stuck them up my rear end!"

Good luck

I didnt have any polyps (spelling???) or cancer but had a few bad spots (had diverticulitis a couple times) so had to do an MRI or Cat Scan (one of those I forget) n the doc said I could have a "blow out" in my lower colon sooooo o they did orthroscopic surgery n cut out the bad 12 incehs of it and Im glad to report I been perfect since wooooo o hooooo ooo I STILL DREAD EVER HAVIN TO DRINK THAT FLEETS LAXATIVE STUFF EVER AGAIN if they cant give me a pill to do the trick Ima not gonna get any more colonoscopys grrrrr rr

John T

PS I loveeeee eeee that versed stuff its sooooo easy n relaxing