Well..my doctor is getting her way...

[Marie5656]

Now that I am 3 years past my 50th birthday, my doctor is getting her wish, and I am going Monday afternoon for a colonoscopy (or as hubby so delicatly puts it, Marie's up-your-@ss-tomy).
Gee and all I have to do to prep. Since Thursday I am off all veggies, cooked and raw, no bran, no fiber, no fruit skins no nuts . Starting in the morning I am on a clear liquid diet. Chicken broth, tea, jello (no red jello, no beef broth). Tomorrow afternoon I have to put some powder mixture into a 32 oz bottle of gatorade and drink it all within an hour. Monday morning I put the rest of the powder into another bottle of gatorade and drink all of IT.
Rick is having to take a half day off work to drive me..I will be sedated and won't be allowed to drive myself home.

A coworker who is a vegetarian is wondering how she will deal with the no veggies thing for four days..because basically what you are not allowed to eat, is basically all she DOES eat..being vegetarian.

[RedGlitter]

Marie, I'll wish you luck but you aren't going to need it. I know people who have had it done and the worst part is that junk you have to drink. Being sedated you'll be nice and out of it and won't have a worry. You'll do just fine.

Good luck Marie I have to have in done but keep putting it off. Will do it during the summer. Let us know how you feel afterwards. Keep smiling.

[pantsonfire321@aol.com]

Originally Posted by Marie5656

Now that I am 3 years past my 50th birthday, my doctor is getting her wish, and I am going Monday afternoon for a colonoscopy (or as hubby so delicatly puts it, Marie's up-your-@ss-tomy).
Gee and all I have to do to prep. Since Thursday I am off all veggies, cooked and raw, no bran, no fiber, no fruit skins no nuts . Starting in the morning I am on a clear liquid diet. Chicken broth, tea, jello (no red jello, no beef broth). Tomorrow afternoon I have to put some powder mixture into a 32 oz bottle of gatorade and drink it all within an hour. Monday morning I put the rest of the powder into another bottle of gatorade and drink all of IT.
Rick is having to take a half day off work to drive me..I will be sedated and won't be allowed to drive myself home.

A coworker who is a vegetarian is wondering how she will deal with the no veggies thing for four days..because basically what you are not allowed to eat, is basically all she DOES eat..being vegetarian.

Hey Good luck Marie . I've had one of those it is not nice . Good luck

[Marie5656]

Well, if there will be a good thing to come..Rick promised me he would go for his if I go through mine.

He has been putting his off longer than me.

[cars]

I got a "C" for/on my 52nd Bday! Lucky me, I was so hoping for a new car!
After being sedated, you don't really know a thing, & if you do, you don't really care!!

[Carl44]

i'm going off topic but sort of on the same theme , a couple of years ago I had to have to have the camera put in via the other end my mouth ,the guy in front of me in the queue ,went to have his done i thought ok no worries then they brought him back out on a stretcher trolley thingy , I thought holy jumping catfish what happened to him ,the nurse saw my jaw drop and come over to talk to me ,she said dont worry it just the anesthetic he has been put out cold ,I SAID NO ONE TOLD ME THAT i'M NOT READY FOR THAT ,she said well in some cases if people are not able to be put out we have to do it when they are awake but its very unpleasant , I said do it how bad can it be ??? they wheeled this guy in ten minutes later he come back out puke and SH1T dripping down his face it was really disgusting but i thought ,i'm just going to have it done no worries ,they called me in i laid on the stretcher i had to bite on this plastic thing and they started to feed this ice cold coil about an inch thick i guess down my throat i could feel every inch of it ,freezing my gut as they fed it down it felt like 20 feet of it the worst thing was watching the tv screen showing my gut as it went in was gulping for breath it was hard not to panic ,they had told me too fast for 12 hours or so and as the camera went in there was all my breakfast and sweets i'd just eaten on the screen ,i got a right telling off ,then they went to the er exit and came out slowly ,the taste as all the poo and half digested stuff came off of the camera into my mouth was indescribable, i bought a can of coke to take the taste away and went outside it was pouring down , it was shift change there was 200 people sheltering under this big well shelter thingy , i started getting tummy pains agonizing too much to bare i doubled over and every one was watching me ,then i started doing the most horrific of burps something from a monster it went on and on and on lasting a minute or so it was all the air i was gulping while choking on the camera coil , i knew i had loads more to do so i walked off into the pouring rain making the most of obscene of noises and leaving loads of bewildered people behind me in the dry they must of wondered if i was possessed

[cherandbuster]

Marie

My Mom had colon cancer so I had my first colonoscopy at age 40 (my second one, five years later, is on April 7th).

I've found that instead of drinking massive quantities of that horrible stuff, my doctor writes me a prescription for Visicol -- they are tablets that you swallow instead. Granted, you have to swallow about 25 of them over a four-hour period, but at least you don't get so bloated and have to swear off lemonade for three months afterwards

It worked really well for me the 1st time around & I'll be doing the same come April 7th . . .

[Bill Sikes]

Not sure why you need that unless there's something the matter - anyway,
remember the medical definition of a sigmoidoscope.....






















































It's a flexible tube with an arsehole at each end!



Good luck and *keep smiling*!

[Carl44]

bill