Posted on 02/24/2008 10:56:07 AM PST by nuconvert
LOL!
Sounds like the prep could have been better. At least there were no commercials...Imagine!!
"You SHOULD have used COLON-JET™, the choice of Professionals!!"
Dave Barry Colonoscopy Inducement, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132
Check !
I agree. I had one last year at age 53. I was overdue because my older brother died from colon cancer at age 52 in 1993.
My older sisters had them done, and kept harping on me to do so.
I have been blessed with very good health, and had never had anesthesia before.
The experience was wonderful.I read up on it, asked my sisters for advice, and got a good doctor.
The prep was like Barry said. It works fairly quickly, but I prepared by having reading material by the toilet that I wanted to catch up on. The key here is to lower the amount of solid food you eat in the days before the prep—then there is less to remove.
Althought the prep drink was like a citrus flavored flat ginger ale, it wasn’t so bad. Just follow instructions.
I had some world class evacuations, which made me laugh hysterically, but you actually feel much better afterwards.
The morning of the exam was just like Dave said. Everyone was upbeat, the anesthesia worked wonderfully. One moment I am conversing with the nurse being rolled into the op area, next thing I wake up and it was all over.
All was well—clean bill of health. Doc says see you in ten years, it was that clean.
Well, I’ll see her on the five year anniversary—no sense pushing my luck.
In my brother’s case, he had colon cancer found too late. He had the removal operation, but the cancer metastisized into his liver. It was terminal, so he declined chemo and lived the last five months of his life on his terms. About two months before he died, he lost all feeling from the mid waist down due to the cancer going to his spine, but that turned put to be a great blessing because he could feel no pain in his abdomen.
We were all able to be around him, at his home, when he died. At least he did not die alone. He didn’t smoke, drank a little, was very tall and athletic. But cancer found him anyway.
So, to all of you out there, don’t be a weenie. Get a colonoscopy. Either way, you come out ahead—you either catch something early that can kill you, or you are elated that nothing is wrong.
You’ll be glad you did, as you sit with your family next Christmas at dinner.
Don’t be afraid.l am a coward and l have been through it ten times.l go every year.lt isn’t the nicest thing in the world but it is better then colon cancer.
Unfortunate choice of words.
Being told you have advanced cancer is much more scary than the tube.
Really, the prep is the worst part. The procedure itself is just as Dave described it -- you're on the table with the medical people getting ready to begin, then you're being wheeled out of the room being told it's all over with. There's not even a sense of the passage of time.
All were were non cancerous, aside from the normal male aversion to having something stuck in your butt it wasn't bad.
Wasn’t ‘perky’ Katie awake during her supposed colonoscoy?
If so, that says some rather, er, amusing things about her.
thanks, bfl
At 48 you need to consider your family history..has anyone had colon cancer? Who? Any one who has a first degree relative should be screened and if you are the child of a parent who has had colon cancer, the reading I have done, suggest that the child have the first screening at age 10 years younger than when the parent was discovered to have had the disease. My B I L had colon cancer at age 44 so his kids should be starting screening at 34. Since then at age 58 he had a second colon cancer and has since had his entire large colon removed..not an easy thing to live with but he is doing ok.
Secondly, if you have any symptoms get screened.
When I had this done a couple years ago I discovered something that helps with the burning that the prep can lead to due to frequent, to say the least, trips to the loo. It is called BALMEX and you find it in the baby supply dept. Use it liberally before you take the coctail! Then after each trip to the loo use a baby wipe, not toilet tissue, and applay more BALMEX. I had no burning and the staff was not sure I did the prep.
As to the procedure itself..it is a breeze. I took a long time to go down so while I had NO pain at all, I remember everything except going into the recovery room. It took me longer to come out of that wonderful drug induced snooze and the next day I had more energy that 10 men and 4 small boys in one..
If you are due, do it..it could save your life.
I have another brother in law and sister in law who won’t go do this so I am printing off the article and mailing it to them...
There is NOTHING TO BE SCARED OF EXCEPT A DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER AND THE EARLIER YOU FIND IT THE MORE SUCCESSFUL THE OUTCOME...lIKE THE OL NIKE AD USED TO SAY “ JUST DO IT”!
ps,,I had an afternoon appt so I took the Cocktail early enough that I didn’t have to worry about the spurts..thank goodness,,I guess you could say I should have been singing “ Afternoon Delight”!
I had my first colonoscopy five years ago at age 58, have my second one scheduled for March 7.
For everyone who can't face the thought of having it done, believe me, it's a helluva lot better than seeing what my dear mother went through.
Dave Barry is, IMO, brilliant. But I liked him a lot more before I read some leftist comments he had made some time back.
Sounds like you had Phosposoda..that is what I had and got the ginger flavored one..added gingerale and it wasn’t too bad.
Sounds like you had Phosposoda..that is what I had and got the ginger flavored one..added gingerale and it wasn’t too bad. Oh yeah and it went to work on me in 15 minutes,,
Yes you can gut it out..my brother did....but not me...that won’t happen.
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