Yay colonoscopy

[Baby Blue]

Like most have mentioned, the prep is really the only awful part. That GALLON of salty metallic water you have to drink is NASTY and it is SO HARD to go without food when you're totally empty but you get to take a nice anesthesia nap. That makes it worth it in my book.

 

[Grandpa]

....as your friend AND a nurse....you need to get both a scope done and a PSA drawn as screen for prostate cancer....you are a very intelligent man, so don't be goofy about this.....if not for you-then do it for Grandma, who might like having you around for a couple more years....

I appreciate that, from all perspectives. Goofy is probably a good way to put it. Even irrational, which bugs the hell out of me. But the thought of going to the doc for something urgent is distasteful, and for something elective close to unthinkable. When you combine all that with the thought of the Roto-Rooter in the personal drainpipe, the aversion factor ramps up yet more. A lot more.

I'm eligible for Medicare this year. Maybe that's how I'll celebrate.

 

[kingricefan]

My sister had one last week and they found some polyps. Haven't found out if there benign or not yet.

 

[Dana Jean]

My sister had one last week and they found some polyps. Haven't found out if there benign or not yet.

I hope they are clear.

 

[Spideyman]

My sister had one last week and they found some polyps. Haven't found out if there benign or not yet.

Prayers all are benign.

 

[kingricefan]

I hope they are clear.

Prayers all are benign.

Thank you! I need to call her tonight and see if she's heard anything. She hasn't been able to have a real bowel movement for about three weeks now.

 

[king family fan]

Thank you! I need to call her tonight and see if she's heard anything. She hasn't been able to have a real bowel movement for about three weeks now.

sending my prayers and thoughts. Please keep us updated.

 

[Neesy]

Thank you! I need to call her tonight and see if she's heard anything. She hasn't been able to have a real bowel movement for about three weeks now.

Ouch - hope she’s feeling better soon

 

[Spideyman]

Thank you! I need to call her tonight and see if she's heard anything. She hasn't been able to have a real bowel movement for about three weeks now.

Extra prayers will be said!!

 

[GNTLGNT]

Thank you! I need to call her tonight and see if she's heard anything. She hasn't been able to have a real bowel movement for about three weeks now.

...I would guess they will likely be benign, yet I don’t understand the inability to have a normal BM especially having had the scope done...that would have revealed a blockage or partial block...

 

[kingricefan]

...I would guess they will likely be benign, yet I don’t understand the inability to have a normal BM especially having had the scope done...that would have revealed a blockage or partial block...

She's had a myriad of tests done and they can't find anything that would cause this either. I tell her she's just full of sh*t!

 

[GNTLGNT]

She's had a myriad of tests done and they can't find anything that would cause this either. I tell her she's just full of sh*t!

...she doesn’t abuse laxatives does she?...

 

[kingricefan]

...she doesn’t abuse laxatives does she?...

Not that I know of.

 

[Neesy]

...she doesn’t abuse laxatives does she?...

Not that I know of.

This happened to my poor old Mom back in Scotland - Grandma gave them laxatives too often which caused a “lazy bowel syndrome “

 

[Ebdim9th]

I'll endure a urologist, but I'm not so sure about a colonoscopy ....

 

[Grandpa]

I'll endure a urologist, but I'm not so sure about a colonoscopy ....

Long ago, I had a snip job done so we didn't have to worry about birth control. I handled it just fine.

You really have to wonder about a guy who's fine with a knife at his scrotum but not a scope at his rectum.

 

[skimom2]

Have to admit I'm not looking forward to this kind of thing. I'm already getting meaningful looks due to IBS. Still, I suppose it's better than maybe dying of ignorance, so...
And hey, Grandpa, I thought Marines could withstand anything.

I think this is one where I might rather die of ignorance.

 

[Blake]

A-frickin'-men.

Some people, particularly current smokers, wonder why I have such vitriol about tobacco.

If someone came to your family gathering and killed your favorite aunt, two other aunts besides, your beloved grandmother, both your parents, and then went out in the world and offed a few friends for good measure, would you dislike that person just a little bit?

And that's why I hate tobacco. Not the smokers who are leashed to it. To the people who put it out in society, knowing full well that the damage that their product has wreaked in my family is being carried around the country and world millions of times over. I don't know how someone can live with themselves causing that much pain and death, let alone go to great efforts to minimize and justify it.

Sorry. Rant over.

I understand where your coming from. I gave up smoking two months ago, and haven't had a smoke since, I went 'cold turkey'. They reckon it's the chemicals they put in the cigarettes today that's the killer. I can't understand anyone smoking here in NSW, anymore, a pack of cigarettes now that I used to smoke costs about $24. I know cigarettes are bad but alcohol kills more people than smokes.

 

[arista]

Food also kills people. I have been watching some episodes of 600 lbs life. It is quite sad for those who have food addiction.

 

[aussie12]

So I have my colonoscopy on Thursday 22 Feb at 1.30pm. Have to start fasting from 10am Wednesday so I will be starving by Thursday morning. I have to start drinking that horrible stuff at 5pm Wednesday. Last time I had it was before my colonoscopy bag reversal surgery which wasn't nice as the bag nearly burst so much was coming out. I was glad to have that then as no more colonoscopy bag after !!! As I said before bowel cancer isn't very nice but I wish that I'd had a colonoscopy earlier then my cancer wouldn't have been so advanced.