Colonoscopy

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Ginger John said:
I had moviprep where you have to drink a litre, then wait a bit, then drink the second litre. I drank the first one and nothing at all happened. I was half way through the second litre when I had to run to the loo and it felt like Satan himself was launching out of my rear end.
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That’s the worst one as the solution is quite thick and having to down it in such big quantities made me feel like I was going to throw it back up.
 
Ginger John said:
Never had one but I'm scared of them!
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A Colonoscopy is an Endoscopy isn't it ?
The upper Endoscopy is done through the mouth, and the lower Endoscopy (Colonoscopy) is done through the backside, I was told by the woman who did mine.
 
Horley Chorley said:
A Colonoscopy is an Endoscopy isn't it ?
The upper Endoscopy is done through the mouth, and the lower Endoscopy (Colonoscopy) is done through the backside, I was told by the woman who did mine.
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I thought endoscopy was just the down one and colonoscopy was the up one?

It's the one you have to swallow that I'm scared of.
 
Ginger John said:
I thought endoscopy was just the down one and colonoscopy was the up one?

It's the one you have to swallow that I'm scared of.
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Right, ta.

I had a colonoscopy, but it was titled as an endoscopy on my hospital notes.

I wouldn't be at all comfortable having a tube down my throat.
 
I was given the choice to guinea pig a new procedure where they shove the camera in with a gadget on the end that once in opened up like an umbrella.Reasoning was that it made viewing easier and they had a higher chance of identifying anything in there..I went for it and apart from being winded it was bearable..I had benign polyps
 
Horley Chorley said:
Similar with me.
I can't remember what was in the sachet, but I mixed it with water and sat on the toilet for hours awaiting the explosion.
Nothing happened, so I sat and sat some more and did a crossword to pass the time.
Just as I gave up, and was about to pull me hoggas up to go to bed, my whole world and arse exploded.
The Colonoscopy the next morning was a doddle, but when I got home, my arse was rumbling all night long.
Kept thinking I needed the toilet, but of course there was nothing left to dump.


Most definitely this :lol:
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Similar with me however I got to bed and went to sleep, shat me duds in bed, f***ing mare!
 
I had my last one in April, have them every 18 months so you can imagine I'm pretty used to it by now after many years. The worst time was when they found a 10mm polyp in my transverse colon and the f***ing specialist doing the exam wasn't trained in removal of large polyp's so I had to have ANOTHER ONE 1 WEEK LATER :confused:.
 
TwasOnTheFifthOfMay said:
Big danger of tmi here, but had this done this afternoon purely as a precautionary screening, and I can confirm it is a bit freaky watching them snip out a polyp on the screen in front of you :eek:

I have to wait a week to see if it's anything they need to follow up on, but it only goes to show that these things are worth doing, however hideous you think it's going to be.
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Fentanyl is good though and you get pissed incredibly quickly later ;)
 
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