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Serial Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:24 PM
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Arrgh ... colonoscopy tomorrow!!!!!!
:thumbsdown:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:31 PM
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1. Here's hoping the best...
I know they aren't fun, BUTT they're worth the discomfort in the end.

Sorry......
:hug::hug::hug:
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:31 PM
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2. Fleet Fleet Fleet Fleet Fleet!
I love the jets of stuff that shoot.... oh, wait.... no bodily function threads allowed... sorry.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:36 PM
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3. are they going to put you to sleep for it?
A friend of mine had one recently, they put him to sleep.. he didn't feel a thing. His only complaint was after they brought him back to the outpatient unit and woke up, he couldn't control his farts. I guess he wasn't too humiliated by it though.. he said everyone else was farting too.
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:38 PM
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4. the thing I look forward to when I get my colonoscopies
(I have bad crohn's so I get them a lot) is to, after the colonoscopy, just eat one type of food item for the like the first 12 hours and so you know, when you have your first movement after the colonoscopy what that food item looks like fully digested and excreted, none of this usual 'all your food mixed together, never knowing what looks like what.' Once, before I became a vegetarian... all I ate were Whoppers for like 12 hours after my colonoscopy... no fries, no nothing except Whoppers... man did I find out what Whopper Doo looked like!
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:41 PM
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7. another time I did with just potatoes...
french fries and baked potatoes.
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Serial Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:41 PM
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8. yuck!
I want chicken soup!

And yes, they will give me a sedative - I had first one 5 years ago and woke up in middle of exam and saw the pink insides - was a Radiologic Tech so sort of knew what I was seeing ...
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:39 PM
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5. I had one last year
Wasn't too bad. Doctor gave me industrial strength laxatives instead of Fleets.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:39 PM
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6. Make sure they give you enough sedative...tell them you are really
nervous. I have had many...TOO MANY, and I've never felt a thing. Healthy colon vibes!!! :hi:
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:42 PM
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10. this stuff....
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Serial Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:44 PM
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11. As mentioned above, I woke up slightly last time
- didn't mind it - didn't stay awake very long, but remember asking Dr. a question during it.

:hi:I hear you are a former cheesehead - maybe if you come visit we can meet up with other cheesehead we both know so well - miss who
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:48 PM
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13. I come home quite often. That would be very cool!
:hi: I'd look forward to meeting you.
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Cyndee_Lou_Who Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 05:33 PM
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19. pssst
that's my ma!! :hi:
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:51 PM
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15. I wake when they do a biopsy, when they scrape my insides w/ a dull spoon
it feels like a dull spoon anyway.
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-05 01:02 AM
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22. I Have the Paradoxical Reaction to Versed (Twilight Sleep)
which means it doesn't work at all on me, which means I've had every goddamn colonoscopy WIDE AWAKE and whooooo boy do they hurt. Had my kidney biopsy under Versed - that is, unsedated - as well, and it was a lot less painful that a colonoscopy.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:42 PM
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9. No thanks! You go ahead...
Edited on Thu Apr-21-05 04:47 PM by Richardo
Seriously - good luck. Hope everything's OK
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Semi_subversive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:46 PM
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12. That has to be the worst thing about hitting 50
I sure hope that there is a medical science breakthrough before it's time for another one.
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Serial Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:50 PM
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14. Not the worst, not pleasant
but a mammogram - OUCH!
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 04:54 PM
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16. hey... this is a MAN thread... we get to whine here guilt-free....
go bitch about child birth, menstration and mammograms somewhere else!
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LiberallyInclined Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 05:27 PM
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17. Cystoscopies are even worse-
that's were they run/ram a camera thru your pee-hole to the bladder-
i had one a couple years back, and they found and removed a cancerous growth. I've had three more since then, one of them in the dr's office with just a local antistethic- then he came at me with something that looked like a clarinet with a tongue...when he started using that puppy...well...my wife said that she could hear me scream in the waiting room- from now on, i'll only have the procedure with the 'twilight' kind of antistethic...
next time i'll tell you about the two different times that i have had to have injections in my...EYE.
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-05 01:00 AM
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21. I'm Having a URS in Two Weeks
That's a super-cystoscopy; they're running the camera, a laser and a basket up the urethra, through the bladder, through the ureter and deep into my left kidney to get the staghorn stone that's forming and has been causing 10 months of chronic kidney infections. Once the stone is broken up and dragged out, they'll leave a stent in the ureter, attached to a string that hangs out the urethra, for a week.
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Cyndee_Lou_Who Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 05:31 PM
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18. Bestest wishes!!!
:hug: :loveya:
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-05 12:29 AM
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20. kick
:kick:
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-05 01:06 AM
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23. Well it may be too late to mention a tip from a nurse friend......
we all know that Fleet stuff is the pits. (Not mentioning bodily functions) It can make some people a little on the raw side if you get my drift. She recommended using some Vasoline to protect those delicate tissues from the constant action brought on by Fleet & tp which irritates. Take it from me her advice was right. I've had 6 from my 30's to 2 yrs ago.
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