Colonoscopies What. The. Hell??!?

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TobaccoRhoda		#21	[-]
Posts: 26028 (05/27/08 10:33 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	They can look inside your heart with an MRI, why can't they look in your intestines the same way? What is with this dark ages shit?
xabana		#22	[-]
Posts: 6506 (05/27/08 10:34 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	You'll get your very own colon/intestine pictures, too, stapled to your discharge sheet. No pun intended.
annie normas butt		#23	[-]
Posts: 4242 (05/27/08 10:35 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Aunt Pappy wrote: The worst part of this is the fasting/drinking the cocktail from hell/pooping. Stay within feet from your toilet at all times. The procedure itself is a breeze, and you're right--you remember nothing. BIG RED ECKS! I drank the first couple of glasses in the kitchen, and had to have mr. annie bring every other glass to me while on the toilet. 5.straight.hours.on the toilet. The nurse seriously asked me if I drank the whole gallon, then proceeded to tell me if I hadn't, they could have just given me an enema before the procedure....gah! The test wasn't nearly as bad as the prep stuff Last Edited By: annie normas butt 05/27/08 10:38 AM. Edited 2 times.
nomellons		#24	[-]
Posts: 2375 (05/27/08 10:35 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I just set a timer and drank a set amount every time it went off -- no more, no less. Stay within feet of your bathroom and make sure you have plenty of toilet paper.
Mister Yuck		#25	[-]
Posts: 3041 (05/27/08 10:37 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Just don't leave photographs around the house for your children to find. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
squashthebeef		#26	[-]
Posts: 13451 (05/27/08 10:38 AM) super badass Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	What do they think you've got up there?
merkyl		#27	[-]
Posts: 53584 (05/27/08 10:39 AM) Registered loser Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	anger
Buggles73		#28	[-]
Posts: 26000 (05/27/08 10:40 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	maybe a scratchy throat.
NewOrleansIsSinking		#29	[-]
Posts: 10114 (05/27/08 10:40 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	xabana wrote: The fun part is pissing out of your ass. Because it'll get to that point. Oooooo that's a normal day for me.!!
squashthebeef		#30	[-]
Posts: 13453 (05/27/08 10:42 AM) super badass Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Sounds like the Private Ryan of the polyp world.
TobaccoRhoda		#31	[-]
Posts: 26029 (05/27/08 10:42 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Why will no one answer my question? WHY CAN'T THEY DO THIS WITH AN MRI OR CAT SCAN? SAME QUESTION FOR THAT HORRID ENDOSCOPY.
squashthebeef		#32	[-]
Posts: 13454 (05/27/08 10:43 AM) super badass Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE!
PassionatePiscesMan		#33	[-]
Posts: 4852 (05/27/08 10:44 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Get something for the potential nausea. Ask the pharmasist. Start sooner than 3 so you can go to bed eariler. I thought they had newer more concentrated stuff you take. It isn't much easier to take but you wont be so bloated.
merkyl		#34	[-]
Posts: 53585 (05/27/08 10:44 AM) Registered loser Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	TRho has been watching too much Star Trek.
xabana		#35	[-]
Posts: 6508 (05/27/08 10:44 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I think they are looking for minutiae along the wall of the intestines. Little folds, scratches, polyps, ### - things that are too tiny for an MRI to pick up. I also think they are looking for discoloration (redness, irritation) - something that won't show up either unless you have a camera taking shots of your poop chute.
superguppie		#36	[-]
Posts: 22985 (05/27/08 10:46 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Why will no one answer my question? WHY CAN'T THEY DO THIS WITH AN MRI OR CAT SCAN? SAME QUESTION FOR THAT HORRID ENDOSCOPY. They can. It's called virtual colonography, but most places don't have it up and running yet, and in many cases insurance doesn't cover it yet. Plus, even the VC doesn't get you out of the bowel prep, which as many have mentioned is the worst part. They have to do the bowel prep so little poop nuggets don't look like polyps. Even if VC were available in your area, and it might very well be, if they find a polyp on VC they immediately have to drug you up and do a colonscopy so they can remove the polyp. As Xabby has sort of indicated, the specifity of VC has not yet been proven. How thorough the test is at finding polyps seems to be very dependent on how well-trained the radiologist is...and sadly, there is very high variation. In case no one warned you yet, the bowel prep doesn't just make you poo. It might also make you vomit. It's DISGUSTING.
NewOrleansIsSinking		#37	[-]
Posts: 10116 (05/27/08 10:47 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The endoscopy isn't horrid. No prep, lie down, go to sleep, wake up completely perky, go home.
merkyl		#38	[-]
Posts: 53586 (05/27/08 10:47 AM) Registered loser Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Ya, I don't think they can do a virtual colonography over dial up.
Dr Weems		#39	[-]
Posts: 37924 (05/27/08 10:48 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Won't they have to pull the stick out before they can get a camera up there?
RazorrzzEdge		#40	[-]
Posts: 4332 (05/27/08 10:48 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	B DeBrun wrote: You think Couric was something? You should've seen Al Roker showing footage of his colonoscopy.

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