Home safe from my colonoscopy! Thank you everyone for your help and concern
Phew. Good to get it over with, they found four small polyps which were completely removed, and they want me to get another colonoscopy in three years. Of course theres always pending lab test results. Not gonna worry about that right now. The doctor didnt seem worried. Just glad to get through it, had a nice nap. Good looking young doctor but I didnt see much of him. Thanks again everyone, take care of yourselves. Your comments and suggestions were very much appreciated 🙏🏻

DarthDem
(5,421 posts)Take care of yourself while resting up.

Walleye
(42,625 posts)a kennedy
(34,502 posts)
Walleye
(42,625 posts)underpants
(193,215 posts)I have a friend who has to get one every other year. The last one he told his girlfriend- screw it, lets go to Five Guys.
Walleye
(42,625 posts)Homemade cream chip beef on English muffins. I am kind of craving a hamburger or cheesesteak, Come to think of it
underpants
(193,215 posts)He asked his proctologist how he chose that field.
The Dr. told a story of his doing residency in the ER. A patient came in whod been in a car wreck and went through the windshield. As you can imagine it was pretty ghastly.
After they finish (no idea of the outcome) he sat down and hung his head. I cant do this anymore he said. His supervisor sat down with him and tried to console him. Have you considered proctology?
Huh?
Well, its been my experience after years in the ER that when someone goes through a windshield they almost never do it ass first
He changed his residency.
Bumbles
(414 posts)One was a psychiatrist, the other a proctologist. They advertised that they treated "odds and ends."
calimary
(87,913 posts)Although I must say, in radio, a few people I worked with insisted on doing EVERYTHING ass-first.
Figuratively speaking, of course.
JoseBalow
(8,483 posts)*no pun intended
applegrove
(128,357 posts)It is the prep that is a pain.
Walleye
(42,625 posts)Diamond_Dog
(38,583 posts)Walleye
(42,625 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,074 posts)My worst experience with that procedure wasnt the prep. I woke up once in the middle of the exam. The probe was exploring the nether regions when I suddenly awoke - fully aware of what was going on. It was like, *POP* awake! It was very uncomfortable. I heard someone say, get him back under! Quick!
Turbineguy
(39,432 posts)Walleye
(42,625 posts)JoseBalow
(8,483 posts)Robert Schimmel had a funny bit about it too...
Bumbles
(414 posts)surfered
(9,406 posts)Walleye
(42,625 posts)twodogsbarking
(15,975 posts)surfered
(9,406 posts)You gotta do what you gotta do.
Walleye
(42,625 posts)surfered
(9,406 posts)To the 5 yr plan and the most recent ( week ago) indicated I can stay with the 5 year regimen.
The prep is not as bad as it used to be.
Good luck!
Walleye
(42,625 posts)twodogsbarking
(15,975 posts)Great people that do the work. Schedule earlier in the day so you don't fast as long.
Take care of yourselves. BTW, pooping blood sucks.
Walleye
(42,625 posts)Sigmoidoscopy I think thats what they were called and I had to take an enema it was just terrible, and I dont think I was completely unconscious either. This time I was out for 25 minutes but it seems like a minute
DownriverDem
(6,904 posts)The second one I used Suflave for the prep. (my insurance wouldn't pay for it so my doc gave it to me) It had two bottles, but only took one dose of the second bottle. That was all I needed. I had one polyp removed and told to come back in 3-5 years. 5 years sounds good to me.
niyad
(127,490 posts)Keep us posted.
Walleye
(42,625 posts)pansypoo53219
(22,606 posts)see if cinnamon is clear.
elleng
(140,867 posts)multigraincracker
(36,339 posts)Ive had a Hiatal Hernia, so get a Esophagoscope and a Colonoscopy together.
My standard joke is to ask them to please do the throat first, please.
Here is to continued good health.
Walleye
(42,625 posts)
multigraincracker
(36,339 posts)Ive had Barrettes for over 30 years. Doc said it is actually improving. He had never seen that before.
TBF
(35,197 posts)thankfully out for it because they did both (I needed to go off my blood thinner so he did the endoscopy at same time). Several polyps, all came back benign. Even after removing polyps he said I could schedule the next one in ten years, so that was a relief. Hoping you will have the same result!