Colonoscopy
Having your first colonoscopy is like breaking up with your first love – years later you’re glad you went through with it, but at the time it really, really sucked.
The worst part of a colonoscopy is usually the preparation. You’re made to ingest a chemical which, for lack of a less disgusting term, makes you crap your guts out.
You basically spend the day before the procedure taking pills every few minutes and drinking copious amounts of water until you start going to the bathroom almost constantly. The idea is to clean your bowels out completely so that the doctor can get the clearest view possible when he looks inside you.
To make matters worse, they also tell you to refrain from eating or drinking anything but clear liquids after midnight that night.
You go in for the procedure and they’ll hook you up to an IV, and then wheel you into the procedure room where all the magic happens. They send some happy juice down the tube and you’re out like a light.
Once they take you down, I’m telling you, the next three to four hours of your life are going to be just fine. You wake up feeling good and you get to eat again! If all goes well and they get the dose for your knockout drops right, you shouldn’t feel a thing during the actual procedure.
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Comment from Jeanette
Time: January 4, 2010, 9:14 pm
Enjoying your site. I was told at 16 I had Bacteria Parasites, most likely from a cat or water. Not until 30 years later and a trip to the emergency room with a wonderful doctor who told me NOT to let them push me off. She even took a break and followed me out leaving. I had Ins. at this time, not best but ins. She said I am not in the field to determine the cause of your pain and amount of blood you have lost, but push on your provides, I don’t think they have tested what they need. Continue no matter what they say. Push them. It took a year of this, that, the barium enemas to colonoscopy with diff. drs to that Dr. Morris says you have Crohn’s and is in bad way. 4 years, meds, remicade and pain still followed but better. (i got cataracts from steriods, surgery) i continued as you stated ok, living with crohns,(LWC) never real remission. We started cutting my meds and still ok. Them I got told I was losing my ins and could not find any to take me. I purchased the max meds i could and started even more whenning. But keeping that to stop he felt would be even worse. I have gone 5 more years in LWC with some flares,but able to continue. I lost my job in late Oct 2009, lost my car ins, solded my car to try to pay rent. I have now been in total pain, can’t move but in pain. worse is I wish I could go to the bathroom. (not just go, sit, cry in pain for a drop) I would love to have the 20 trips, not this. yes, Stress, diet and activity have change more them I thought would ever.
I love to read others comment, hoping to find something that will help me. Yes, what is right for one does not mean right for you, but if what helps them is not something you know hurts you, it is worth a try. It can’t get worse then I hurt now.
I don’t know if you print all your comments, this you can or not, I have been sort of forward. If you want to email me please do.
Oh, Mark said you can contact him in his comments, was that to you or your viewers? if I am ok with others contacting me how do you do that? Can they email direct or can you set up a thing that you comments to others? Thanks again for letting me vent today.
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