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(3,147 posts)They get you so stupid for the procedure, who cares.
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(28,941 posts)BlueJazz
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MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Well... I heard that somewhere, I think... someone said... ass hair burner, I think his name was...
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)They wouldn't let me leave the recovery room until I farted. Such a burden!
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)... fissure cracks.
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)My anesthesiologist was a prince. This is the good stuff, he said. This is the stuff that killed Michael Jackson.
But it was a great dream. I was swimming in an Olympic size pool which had the racing lanes set up. I remember I was struggling and a woman swam up in the next lane. It was an actress I recognized. She just gave me a smile in mid-stroke and I suddenly got this feeling of instant camaraderie. Suddenly it was easier to swim as our free-style strokes were synchronized.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I still have wet dreams at age 62. I'm just not really asleep.
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)Good platonic relationships are hard to find, but rewarding.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)best to set up base in there for a few hours!
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Sat there so long that my legs fell asleep.
panader0
(25,816 posts)We were stoned/drunk at his house when he put it on.........
nolabear
(41,975 posts)I've just had one so far and though it wasn't a nightmare, it was yukky. I promised myself all kinds of things if I didn't yurk.
But it'll do you good. And hey, you'll know your true weight! LOL!
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)The
swill ya gotta drink!
Must put up this lovely "Awkward Moments" picture that my awesome husbo made:
(A take off on "Precious Moments". Next:
"My First Fart on a Crowded Elevator"
Orrex
(63,213 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I've never ever been "down" before. It was all so new to me: Laying there in a wheeled cart waiting for them to administer the anesthesia and with all this shit hanging off of me and looking up at the ceiling lights feeling helpless and musing to myself "So this is what it's like to be down in a hospital". I did not like the feeling and it steeled my resolve never to be busted up bad enough to be in this situation, even if in some outpatient surgery.
Really though, all in all the whole thing, including the prep, was not bad. My apprehensions were vanquished.
The prep wasn't that bad. I drank salty bullion broth all day and the cleanser stuff, while being cloyingly sweet, didn't make me hurl. I did the "two step" method, and each time I was "done" in an hour, though that hour was spent totally on the pot. I thought I'd be climbing the walls with food cravings, but I wasn't at all. Strange.
I was utterly shocked at how fast the anesthesia took hold. I remember seeing them push the syringe into the IV tube and any effort I made to note my first ever passing into never-never land was thwarted as I was out like a light less than a second after seeing it. I did not dream.
Next thing I know I was in another room and feeling more coherent than I figured I had any right to be. The nurse kept stressing for me to take it easy but I was determined to show I was OK and perhaps overdid being cerebral in showing I was alright to get up. I couldn't pass wind in front of an attractive woman nurse, so she left and let me do my thing. I felt SO good to shed that stupid gown and put my jeans, boots and shirt on. I felt normal again. I pleasantly but firmly refused to be wheeled out in a wheelchair: I wanted to walk out and feel like my old self again, especially after hearing of good results.
You know what? I thought that after 38 hours of no solid food, I'd be mad with hunger: I wasn't. I just ate because I figured I should. Once I got my appetite back though, I majorly chowed down.
I was apprehensive, even frightened at first, but now I'll do it again without any qualms whatsoever.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Mine is scheduled on the 21st.. I need to check to see if the WiFi reaches into the bathroom....
raccoon
(31,111 posts)a kennedy
(29,669 posts)the worst....but good news, I'm clean as a whistle....
Lars39
(26,109 posts)NEVER.AGAIN
Locrian
(4,522 posts)The fasting part... I'm starved.
Be done in about 24 hours... ughn\
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)But, cut up a whole chicken and boil it to near nothingness.
You can eat the clear broth all you want and it's very satisfying.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)and go to Chicken Express!
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)in the same "sitting"
And having the doctor say, "I'll start with the colonoscopy, but don't worry, I'll wipe of the scope before I stick it down your throat."
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graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I get mine on Thursday of this week. Soooooooo excited. I can't wait to drink 64 oz of gator aid, 4 ducalax and a cpntainer of Miralax!
Might I add that my apt building has plumbing issues? Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)At least I hope not.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Don't be tempted to believe that you can make it to the bathroom in time after that stuff starts to work . . . be prepared to just hang out on the throne. If you're just a couple seconds too slow, or if your aim is off, you'll have to burn your house down.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)...they now have tablets you can take rather than drinking the swill. They cost more but they are less unpleasant.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Just don't wander too far from the John.
Do you have to do three bottles? I did, but they may have been 32oz. Been a while, can't remember for sure.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Worst part will be getting up early to get to the hospital by 7 am
Squinch
(50,950 posts)Don't use any red flavors or you'll give the doctor a heart attack.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Now just waiting for the end of this trip.
Squinch
(50,950 posts)And here's the thing: YAY FOR YOU!!!
So many people don't do this because the prep is so unpleasant. But we can absolutely be certain that we will never get colon cancer if we stay on top of these.
(I come from a family in which myself and every one of my 5 siblings gets polyps, and has gotten them since we were in our 30's. Which means that most of us would not have survived to our current ages in our 50's and 60's.) Yes, it's unpleasant, but it's kind of a medical miracle, too.
Best of luck.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I'm craving pizza right now. I never have pizza.
Squinch
(50,950 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I'll let you know how things work out.
Squinch
(50,950 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I tried holding onto the high for as long as I could, but BAM, I was out in less than a minute! Everything turned out great.
Squinch
(50,950 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)barbtries
(28,797 posts)"the prep"
bleh.
HonEur12
(33 posts)For sure.
libodem
(19,288 posts)But I didn't care. I watched the monitor. I'm on a pain regime that must have made me tolerant to the Versed and Fentenyl. I remember most of it.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Doc told me I'd be lightly sedated. Wish I could not be there while it's going on.
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graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I demanded some weed....lol
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graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Rrrruuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnn!
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graywarrior
(59,440 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)And I was aware of some discomfort, as they went around a flexure, the uterus acts as a guide they told me, later.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Iterate
(3,020 posts)Just when you've almost forgotten, uhg, kicked to the top again.
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(17,339 posts)He's an artist and the results were negative. His wife said that because of the test she found out that he wasn't,
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Jackson Polyp.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)I actually wound up waking my doctor at 4 am because I couldn't do the prep. He wasn't happy. I was miserable. And then post op constipation was two days of agony.
Otherwise, it was delightful.
graywarrior
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graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,296 posts)that you hit on the nurse while you were sedated and don't remember it. It just remains her little secret.
mockmonkey
(2,816 posts)I did everything I was told to do and read what was written on the Prep paperwork to do about 500 times.
I ate very lightly the day before I had to drink the stuff. I moved a small tv into the bathroom and stayed there.
The day of the colonoscopy when I was checked in the nurse asked me something I wasn't expecting. What color was your last BM? I don't know. I didn't really think I wanted to look at it. The nurse says well this was in the paperwork and you have to know or they can't do the procedure. She implied that I didn't drink the stuff.
This caused a big issue and I did something I never do, I got ANGRY! There was NOTHING written in the paperwork I received or in the phone call from the nurse the day before that said to check the color of my last BM.
The nurse could tell that I was PISSED. Soon I was visited by other nurses all trying to calm me down. I was ready to LEAVE.
At one point one of the nurses admitted that the old versions of the Prep paperwork were missing this information but that supposedly they were all destroyed.
They conferred with the doctor and he said to go ahead and get me ready. The rest went fine, I guess. I don't remember that much afterward.
My partner told me later that they mentioned to him about my being upset...lol.
When I got home I checked the Prep paperwork and there was NOTHING about checking the color of your last BM.
I am not a terrible patient. I have bad veins and anytime I get a needle put in, it can be painful as some try to move the needle around. I'm used to it. I understand.
But don't tell me something was told to or written for me and I didn't do it.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)And knowing that in a civilized country, these would be on the national health insurance plan.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)What an appropriate thread/topic. I am in Aruba right now and I had my colonoscopy this morning.
Just as a side note ... Lived in Aruba 2005 to 2010 ... been back in the US for 2 years
I have no insurance and i paid a total of $508.22 for the procedure. When my doc in the US said that I was overdue and since the US cost was going to be almost 4 grand it made sense to buy a ticket, park myself at a friends house for a week and have my Aruban doctor scope me out. It's been my third here in Aruba and I even get color photos to take home to show my US doctor.
And yes ... 4 liters of sludge makes for an awful experience.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)RedCloud
(9,230 posts)Apparently their aim was not too good!
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sendero
(28,552 posts).. (if they've done it before) that the preparation is the ordeal, the procedure is a picnic.
That said, there is a new prep "medication" (Pikoprep) that is way, way more palatable and way less harsh than the old magnesium citrate ordeal. I highly recommend it.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)and they don't mean finish your drink.
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TexasTowelie
(112,210 posts)Certainly there has to be something better to do.
On edit: Oh yeah, I took a bong hit!
Dash87
(3,220 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)"Worst one ever ! Now wipe that down !"
njcamden_25884
(27 posts)ughhhh