CHILDREN OF GOD,
You may, at some point, need to have a trained professional sedate you and then another trained professional probe your innards like an alien probed Paul Dooley as he reported in his brilliant cameo in “Waiting For Guffman,” (one of the funniest movies ever made, if you have never seen it), and you may be reassured that this procedure is no big deal and you can plan to go back to work the next day, or even preach.
WELL.
Your gal PeaceBang here has had two of these such procedures and can tell you that this latest one has left her sore and upset, feeling beaten in the guts by a 2×4″. It has been almost three complete days since I got ‘scoped and I am really glad I didn’t have to preach this morning, as one is not allowed to take Advil or such aids for TEN DAYS following the procedure.
Word to the wise? Schedule your routine colonoscopies early in the week or even during vacation. Blech.
But do get it done.
Well, there goes my theory that there had been improvements; the first one about killed me (more the prep than the actual thing…..) and the second was no big deal.
Too bad. Now I can go back to dreading the next one, albeit not for some years.
Thanks for sharing, I guess.
ceci
I think having routine colonoscopies is a very bad idea. I posted that before. We don’t do it in Canada and we don’t die of colon cancer in greater numbers than Americans. It’s enough to do the paper test and then only have a colonoscopy if there is a problem.
It’s no surprise that so much money is spent on health care in the US with less than stellar results.
And finally when I said to my sister that the doctor in the US was urging me to have a colonoscopy, she said “well they can’t crawl around your brain looking for tumors, why have them crawl around your colon”. She lives in Vancouver BC.
I know – my husband always says to me “and what medical school did you go to?” but still having experienced medicine in both countries, I can see that one is very likely to suffer from excessive testing in the US.
The sedation is optional. Skipping it can make the while thing gentler.
Sorry you had such a miserable experience with this last one 😮 Usually it’s the prep that’s the problem, not the scope itself, so what an unfortunate surprise. I’m firmly in the “worth whatever price category” as I have a sister who only did the fecal tests (on a regular basis) and by the time one of those came back positive, her cancer was already stage 3. I remind myself that the prep and scope are very small compared to what she went through.
ugh, sorry you’re suffering. As a colorectal cancer survivor I do think they’re very important. I always felt the prep was awful, but the recovery was swift. I’m usually ravenous afterwards and go out for a hearty meal. The effects of chemo, radiation and surgery (temporary ileostomy) are much worse than the colonoscopy, ime.