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Posts: 5949 (05/27/08 4:55 PM) Registered User |
Ugh, I have my colonoscopy and endoscopy next Tuesday. Did ya know that MiraLax is over the counter now? WTF? Who voluntarily wants to take that shit?
I tried to ask for the pills and they told me I had to drink the Miralax. Asses. |
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Posts: 484 (05/27/08 4:56 PM) Registered user |
She's on the shitter by now. Probably yellow water but not clear enough yet. Keep on drinking.
Versed doesn't work on everyone. It doesn't work on me. I've had many scopes and remember them all. She gave me some painkiller so it didn't hurt. Watching the biopsies and it getting cauterized was cool. It didn't really hurt but I felt something. Most of the air was sucked from my ass by the scope but there can be a symphony in recovery if there's gas left. |
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Posts: 9165 (05/27/08 5:11 PM) Registered user |
For TRho, 'cause I'm cruel like that.
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Posts: 8414 (05/27/08 5:13 PM) Guttersnipe |
note to self: i do not NOT want a colonoscomy. or anything like that.
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leeter |
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Posts: 2324 (05/27/08 5:23 PM) Registered User |
This thread is like Christmas for me...
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Posts: 2491 (05/27/08 5:29 PM) Registered User |
a little assplay is one thing, but I'd rather have the cancer. |
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Mister Slippery |
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Visa Declined wrote: good luck in making your wish come true |
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hossc |
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Posts: 15642 (05/27/08 5:42 PM) Registered User |
Shit out any Barbie shoes from 1966?
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Visa Declined |
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Posts: 2492 (05/27/08 5:42 PM) Registered User |
are you offering me a quicky diddle? Cuz I am down with it if you are.
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Posts: 1923 (05/27/08 6:13 PM) |
If you already have woken up with Versed, why aren't they giving you a different drug? I was on Demerol the first time I had it done and I remember it
vividly (and they probably remember me too for some of the not so nice things I said to them). I don't know what they give me now, but I don't remember
a thing after they say goodnight.
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Posts: 828 (05/27/08 7:21 PM) Registered user |
TC wrote: There are breast MRIs but doubt insurance companies will cover them as a routine screening procedure as they do mammograms. It isn't the pain of a colonoscopy that so much worries me, but the chance of having my colon perforated during the procedure. It happens too frequently to consider it a simple procedure. If you're having the procedure because of abdominal pain, PLEASE get a CT first. I knew a guy that was scheduled for a colonoscopy because he was having severe abdominal pain. Luckily (yes, luckily!) he ended up in the ER first where it was discovered he already had a perforated colon. If he had had the colonoscopy, it could've killed him.
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Posts: 10124 (05/27/08 7:24 PM) Registered user |
I get way more ultrasounds than mammograms.
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Posts: 1871 (05/27/08 7:49 PM) Registered user |
My dad's had tons of these cause he has colitis and has had a lot of benign polyps. He's never had any problems with them, but my bro had one last year
and he started bleeding after he got home cause I guess they were a little too aggressive. I'm not letting anyone come near me that looks like they enjoy
it.
Gup, what is that? An ass-cactus? :lbf |
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Posts: 9167 (05/27/08 7:51 PM) Registered user |
Since TRho's off to the shitter, I'll tell you about the woman who went in for a routine colonoscopy and that night she had severe abdominal pain. She
went to the ER, and she had a perforated spleen and they had to do an emergency splenectomy.
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Lilasu |
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Posts: 606 (05/27/08 8:05 PM) |
Ugh, I had a colonoscopy once. The worst part is truly the day before. I don't remember a thing about the procedure. My sister who lives two hours away was
my driver to and fro, and afterwards she ran to the store to get me some Tylenol. She was gone for less than 10 minutes and when she came back I was all
"Sissy! What are YOU doing here?" So yeah, Don't worry about pain, or awkwardness, or anything. It's a lost memory. Ugh, but going from
normal to pooing clear water in less than 3 hours was grim. Two weeks later I found a photo of my innards sitting in a pile of papers in my kitchen.
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itsakat |
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Posts: 6925 (05/27/08 8:13 PM) Registered User |
I'm young. My colon is all pink and sparkly inside.
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Posts: 26049 (05/27/08 8:15 PM) Registered user |
This is a load of crap. Literally.
For those people who say they'll never have a colonoscopy, good luck with that. Colon cancer is one of the biggest killers and it's on the rise. |
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Posts: 16151 (05/27/08 8:16 PM) |
When my father was admitted to the hospital last December, they had to do both a colonoscopy and endoscopy (I think that's what the upper GI test is
called?) during the same procedure. He had horrible pain for a couple days afterward and they "thought" they might have perforated his bowel. Due to
his age, they wouldn't go in to surgically repair it, and instead kept him on bedrest and NO FOOD OR WATER for over a week (he had a protein IV type of
thingy), hoping it would heal on its own. We don't even have proof it WAS perforated or that it healed properly, because while in the hospital, he
contracted c-diff and all the attention was focused on that. He was shuffled back and forth from hospitals to nursing home, and finally died March 1st.
So, yeah, there can be horror stories related to colonoscopies. Or inept physicians. Take your pick. |
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Posts: 10125 (05/27/08 8:21 PM) Registered user |
The endoscopy is the tube down the throat where you might be knocked out like I was. That put a ton of air in me.
The upper GI test is where you drink a couple cups of barium, wait for it to go though you a little and then get on an X-ray table and roll over and over as they take the xrays. |
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Posts: 26050 (05/27/08 8:22 PM) Registered user |
Well, thanks for that tidbit.
Speaking of tidbits, it was a mistake to bbq yesterday. I've got two sides of jalapeno-sauced ribs and a gallon of potato salad sitting in the fridge mocking me. God, I'm hungry. I have new compassion for people who go to bed hungry every night. |
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