Colonoscopy Tomorrow

[126coupe]

Let the Sh*(*^&%t begin.

First time, 52 years old

[WIL84911]

I'm 49 and the doctor suggested I do it now... eekkkk!!!...

Anyway... good luck to you.. I'm sure you'll be okay

[A930Rocket]

I went through it last year at age 50. No biggie including the flush the day before.

I was given Proponal (sp?) just before the procedure, and told the Doc, "Give me the thriller dose, not the killer dose...".

[syncroid]

My doc also said that when I hit the big "50" I will need to get it done. Thats only four months away. Everyone I have talked to that has had one says its not that bad.

[Zeke]

Given the recent passing of your father to colon cancer, I think this is a good idea. Best to you.

[rsNINESOOPER]

That makes two of us- Im due in at 8am for the same gig.

Just about to pour some water into the jug I picked up this morning from the Pharmacy and drink whatever foul tasting concoction that the powder in the bottom makes.

My first time as well but Im 38. Congratulations on dodging "The Procedure" for so long.

I go back in two weeks for the Endoscopy which I am dreading even more............

I really hop that I do not recognize the camera if you know what I mean.


Godspeed

[126coupe]

Originally Posted by rsNINESOOPER

That makes two of us- Im due in at 8am for the same gig.

Just about to pour some water into the jug I picked up this morning from the Pharmacy and drink whatever foul tasting concoction that the powder in the bottom makes.

My first time as well but Im 38. Congratulations on dodging "The Procedure" for so long.

I go back in two weeks for the Endoscopy which I am dreading even more............

I really hop that I do not recognize the camera if you know what I mean.


Godspeed

Make sure you chill the concoction

[84CAB]

I had one this year @ 38. No big deal... really. Drink the stuff, go in, go to sleep and wake up. Never even know what happened.

[carmad]

The hardest part is drinking the large volume of the cleansing agent. The procedure itself is a piece of cake. I remember them wheeling me in, the next thing I remember, is them wheeling me to the car to go home.
No pain, no soreness, going to the dentist is worse.

[Robert Adams]

The good news is the worst is now over if you are going tomorrow! If colon cancer is a part of your family history this is a must!The 1st time I went I was 58 and wasn't sure what to expect, but turned out that the worst part was going through the clean out. Need a day to recoup and then it's past history, hopefully. I had 4 pulps on the 1st visit which turned out to be just that and because I have several family members who died of the disease, they put me on a 3 year cycle. Went back this August for the 2nd colonoscopy and they didn't find a thing! So I wish you all the success I had and then some! You are doing you and your family a good thing!
Wishing you all much success!

[rsNINESOOPER]

Thanks for the advice 126coupe-

its in the fridge now....... this stuff tastes really bad even with the Lemon flavor packet.

[johnco]

I apologize if this has been posted before, but I think it's hilarious.

[R K T]

Like others.....the prep is the worst part.
BUT......(pun intended).....I was laying there ready for the procedure to start. IV stuck in my wrist. Here comes the doc with the happy juice. He shoots it into my IV and my arm immediately goes on fire. Pain like I've never felt in my life. I'm screaming. The doc and nurses stand there looking at me. My arm feels like it's going to explode. I'm yelling every cuss word that I know and I think I made up a few new ones. Then one nurse notices that they had the blood pressure cuff inflated!!!! They injected the juice into a CLOSED VEIN. She ripped the cuff off, and the juice surged into my system and crash!
The vein in my arm could have actually ruptured and been a huge emergency.

Don't forget to check your cuff!

[DARISC]

I posted this before. It never gets old and every time I read it I laugh my ass off.

This is from newshound Dave Barry's colonoscopy journal:

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis . Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America 's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose, watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous.. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this is, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' had to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling 'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.

[cgarr]

Enjoy!

[Hugh R]

EVERYONE over 50 should get one, EVERYONE. I had one at 50, he snipped a few palups (sp?) and had me come back a year later for a re-do. He told me that what he snipped the year before "most often" turns cancerous. Told me unchecked, there was a good chance I'd have died by 55; I'm 56 now and going back in early in January. The day before is the worst, the day of is absolutely nothing.

[TimT]

he snipped a few palups (sp?)

I had 4 pulps

Lets get together now..

Polyps

There..... Is that to difficult?

Anyway the procedure is no big deal... The cleansing is a pain..

[Tobra]

that would be propafol(milk of anesthesia, so called as it is an emulsion and appears white)

Polyps, Hugh

[ruf-porsche]

Ask him or her how did they Get INTO this business. LOL

[porsche4life]

If at any point you realize that he has both hands on your shoulders.... RUN!