Due to a family history of colon polyps/cancer, I’ve had a colonoscopy every 5 years. My last one almost killed me. The Dr snipped several polyps, one larger than the others, but didn’t properly cauterize it. White boy bleed a lot. Had to go to the ER for a do over. I lost about 1/3 of my blood, would have needed a transfusion if it had gone on much longer. Passing bowls full of blood is not fun so watch your bowl closely after any colonoscopy.
I’m on a high dose of warfarin and it is not a simple procedure for me.
If I decide to do it, I must go in the hospital five days ahead, get off warfarin and on Heparin. Then when the procedure is done it takes 5-6 days to get off heparin and back on my correct dosage of warfarin.
And if they do find something better get ready for me to bleed a lot!
I had a similar experience. They put 4 bags of blood thru me that night, and I was drinking prep at the same time, and THAT was to fix the bleeder with another colonoscopy the next day.