Colonoscopy

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I'm not going into gory details, except to say I had one today and it was all clear, but if anyone at some time is about to have one and needs info and reassurance, feel free to contact me.

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Too late. I had one yesterday. I’d be surprised if the drugs have worn off by now if it was today.
No pain involved at all.
I also had a gastroscopy. Again went very smoothly (the drug they give you for this means you can’t remember a thing).
 
Didn't have a sedative, I went 'old school', drug free as I had to drive home afterward. Uncomfortable but nothing unbearable.
 
Not the most fun way to spend the time but IMO the actual procedure is far, FAR less bad than the cleansing regime that precedes the shuftiscope! I went for the sedatives for mine because it was a full colonoscopy rather than a sigmoidoscopy. Mrs Nod was driving!
 
Moviprep, not an introduction to a film screening unfortunately. It was easier than I thought it was going to be TBH. I thought it would be like having a gastric virus in effect but it was much easier than that. Quite gentle, if a little violent, and pain-free I thought.
 
Can't remember what mine was called but it was the proverbial dose of salts! A couple of medical issues have meant that the cleansing routine wasn't a one-off and knowing what's going to happen doesn't make the repeat performances any better.
 
Nod said:
Not the most fun way to spend the time but IMO the actual procedure is far, FAR less bad than the cleansing regime that precedes the shuftiscope! I went for the sedatives for mine because it was a full colonoscopy rather than a sigmoidoscopy. Mrs Nod was driving!
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I had to down 3 litres of 'Klean-prep' the night before my "double decker" [as the Doc's referred to it, basically both an endo and colonoscopy] - vilest stuff I ever tasted, I think it was supposed to be vanilla, it was nothing of the sort - wasn't so much the flavour either way, but the consistency of it, globby, sticky stuff that had me gag after every mouthful. Someone suggested at the time to chew gum while 'drinking' it [it's more a solid than a drink I'd say] and this did help, a little. I don't envy anyone ever having to go through it. It was 4am or so before I even had a bowel movement, but then the flood gates open ... you're so knackered by the time you're rolled into the procedure that sedation is more than welcome! Good news ... the tea and toast they give you afterward, after 36hrs fasting, will be the nicest meal you've ever tasted
 
I see I am not alone in this procedure. :eek:
 
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I had Moviprep. 2 litres is not an easy task. It took effect within about 1.5 hours. 20 visits to the loo.
They pumped quite a lot of air into me. Still not all out:eek:
 
Had the top down bottom up camera work a month ago. I asked if they used the same camera and if so could they do the top down first :D Bet they had heard that a thousand times before.

The Moviprep was actually pretty decent. I had a colonoscopy in the US in about 2012 and the stuff they gave me was thick, hard to swallow, tasted horrid and what came out the other end must have been at about 20 bar (200PSI). Thought I might achieve orbit if I didn't hang on to the side of the toilet!!
 
I managed to get the Moviprep down quite well. I wouldn't drink it recreationally but cold from the fridge and sucked very quickly through a straw in 200ml lots seemed to make it almost tolerable.
 
moggi1964 said:
Had the top down bottom up camera work a month ago. I asked if they used the same camera and if so could they do the top down first :D Bet they had heard that a thousand times before.
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I thought about asking the colonoscopist (right word?) if she was going to buy me dinner first but then remembered I used to be an artic driver and the number of times I got 'that's a big truck for a little parcel' or, 'you could play football in here'; I decided to keep the joke to myself.
 
Billy Connolly did an excellent colonoscopy sketch discussing 'agent picolax' and his emptiness. Sadly it doesn't seem to be available on yt at present.
 
moggi1964 said:
I had a colonoscopy in the US in about 2012 and the stuff they gave me was thick, hard to swallow, tasted horrid and what came out the other end must have been at about 20 bar (200PSI). Thought I might achieve orbit if I didn't hang on to the side of the toilet!!
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It was 2017 I had mine and that sounds more like what I had to ingest, it was called klean prep but may have been under other company names. Worst thing I've ever had to digest, no contest. This moviprep sounds not bad by comparison, good to know things have improved in case . . . *Touches wood*!
 
ShinySideUp said:
I see I am not alone in this procedure. :eek:
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Until the current situation started, every person in England over the age of 55 was offered a bowel cancer screening so there are a lot of people who have undergone the procedure. As I said in an earlier post (and in older threads covering the same sort of ground!), the procedure isn't as bad as what it's looking for should it find it too late. Would I have them for fun? NO!!! but if the medics think it's a good idea for me to have one, I'll undergo it, Picolax (other rectal reaming products are available...) and all!
 
Nod said:
Until the current situation started, every person in England over the age of 55 was offered a bowel cancer screening so there are a lot of people who have undergone the procedure. As I said in an earlier post (and in older threads covering the same sort of ground!), the procedure isn't as bad as what it's looking for should it find it too late. Would I have them for fun? NO!!! but if the medics think it's a good idea for me to have one, I'll undergo it, Picolax (other rectal reaming products are available...) and all!
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On of the nurses in the hospital was telling me about that; I was never offered one. It wasn't a colonoscopy though, it was a sigmoidoscopy which is a quick look at the rectum which they stopped doing for financial reasons. The nurse did say that in any year they did detect perhaps three cancers in her department when they did do it. You don't have to clean the bowel for a sigmoidoscopy, a simple enema at the time is often good enough, whereas a colonoscopy goes in about five feet and needs the bowel to be completely empty.
 
My most recent one was done under that umbrella and was a full colonoscopy, probably because of my medical history. The original enema didn't do the job so I had to have the chemical reamer. They found several polyps and removed them. Apparently the next test is a simple "crap on a stick" one to check for blood.
 
I agree with NOD.
"the actual procedure is far, FAR less bad than the cleansing regime that precedes the shuftiscope"
 
tonyq said:
I agree with NOD.
"the actual procedure is far, FAR less bad than the cleansing regime that precedes the shuftiscope"
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I agree.

I made the mistake of drinking only water after my last (very light) meal before the Moviprep. Next morning I felt carp as I had a sugar low. Had I bothered to read the notes I would have drank some lucozade or similar.
 
Yup, Lucozade for the sugar hit and Bovril for the savoury.
 
How many prep options are there for a pre rip-the-sh*t-out-of-you-oscopy? By the sounds of it, I'll take any of the others before Klean-prep tbh, none of them sound good! BUT, at least it seems getting the others digested is easier, and I'll take that and deal with the consequences. Rather that than crying like a lil' beyatch chewing gum into the early hours, gagging every 5 seconds after every attempted mouthful [you cannot do klean prep through a straw, it's GLOOP!] while staring down the 3 litres of the foul stuff still to go! And this is after fasting already so add HANGRY! I hope I never have to go through it again but if I do I don't care, I'm asking for one of those others, don't care if they rip the hole off of me :ROFLMAO:
 
Cagey75 said:
How many prep options are there for a pre rip-the-sh*t-out-of-you-oscopy? By the sounds of it, I'll take any of the others before Klean-prep tbh, none of them sound good! BUT, at least it seems getting the others digested is easier, and I'll take that and deal with the consequences. Rather that than crying like a lil' beyatch chewing gum into the early hours, gagging every 5 seconds after every attempted mouthful [you cannot do klean prep through a straw, it's GLOOP!] while staring down the 3 litres of the foul stuff still to go! And this is after fasting already so add HANGRY! I hope I never have to go through it again but if I do I don't care, I'm asking for one of those others, don't care if they rip the hole off of me :ROFLMAO:
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I've only had one. as mentioned above, and that's Moviprep. It's pretty easy to get down, doesn't taste too bad (leaves a bit of a saccharin-type aftertaste) and each treatment (you need two) is one litre of fluid. My procedure was in the afternoon so I drank 1 litre between 2pm and 3.30 the previous day and the second one at 06.30 over an hour and a half. The effects had gone by 10am then I drove an hour to the hospital without incident. The effects of the first dose lasted quite along time, well into the evening, but not on the scale of the first two hours. The clinician said my bowel was very clean so it does work well and TBH isn't too bad at all.
 
I have had one top down without sedative. I was gagging! Horrible feeling.
 
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That's an 'interesting' forum, slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. Characteristic quote "The French are a nation of brainless unwashed sheep, they deserve what they get. Followers ". If nature requires balance then they are the cultural counterweight to TP! :LOL:
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I have to say I didn't look at anything else on there as I just googled "agent picolax" :exit:
 
I've had two full blown colonoscopies, 1st time due to Colitis, 2nd time a precaution).

Both times I got that nasty Klean Prep stuff to take before hand. Took about a week before I could trust a fart.

My advice:

1. Don't try and cheat the preparation (Klean Prep etc), you'll end up having to go through it all again (happened to an old lady on the ward).
2. Don't add diluting juice etc to Klean Prep. It just makes it weird. Just do a couple of big downers for each sachet and get it done.
3. Just take the sedative and avoid the gas. Nobody warned me that too much gas and air makes you feel like you've died. Very trippy and doesn't eliminate all the pain like the sedative does.
 
Everyone is different, but for me there was no actual pain. just a fair bit of discomfort. I didn't have a sedative and gave up with the gas as I couldn't tell the difference. I used the pain scale to explain to my wife what it felt like -- on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is no pain and 10 is the worst you have ever felt I had to say about 2, On the same scale for discomfort I would say a six or seven, but not all the time. There's a nurse at the head end, talk to her (or him) talk like it was the last conversation you'll ever have, about anything, you'll be surprised how much it helps. Oh, and swear like a trooper, I mean it, that really does help, give it LARGE!
 
For the gastroscopy I was given Lignococaine and Midazolam. These erase all memory of the procedure. I must admit I would find no sedative on a gastroscopy very uncomfortable.

For the colonoscopy I was given Fentanyl and Midozolam. I sort of came to about (I guess) 2/3rds of the way through. I could see the images on the screen in front of me which in my dopey state I found amusing for some reason.

3 days self isolation prior is also necessary at the moment.

Sounds like the Moviprep I had was better than some of the alternatives.
 
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I reckon the fart I released after the camera (I'm sure it was a full sized VHS camcorder!!!) was epic!
 
Peter123 said:
For the gastroscopy I was given Lignococaine and Midazolam. These erase all memory of the procedure. I must admit I would find no sedative on a gastroscopy very uncomfortable.

For the colonoscopy I was given Fentanyl and Midozolam. I sort of came to about (I guess) 2/3rds of the way through. I could see the images on the screen in front of me which in my dopey state I found amusing for some reason.

3 days self isolation prior is also necessary at the moment.

Sounds like the Moviprep I had was better than some of the alternatives.
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I woke during my endoscopy, horrible experience, there was a nurse/doc shoving the tube down my throat and it was sore, don't think he was very experienced. I signalled to him to give me more sedative - next thing I remember was waking up in the bed to tea and toast being served!
 
These are so worth it folks, my wife had it this and 2 35mm tumours found, she has had her large bowel removed and they have replumbed her small bowel so no bag will be required. This all happened over the Easter weekend. We just found out she will need chemo as some of the lymph nodes tested have some rouge cells so without the screening she wouldn't have known.
 
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I suppose a lot of people are put off doing the initial stick-in-a-turd screening test as it's a bit grim to do but in the end not as grim as what could happen if these little problems are allowed to grow into big, incurable ones. I was fortunate in that there was absolutely nothing found (so where the blood came from initially, who knows, probably a torn capillary) but I could also have been riddled with nasties without symptoms until it was too late.
 
Mick616 said:
These are so worth it folks, my wife had it this and 2 35mm tumours found, she has had her large bowel removed and they have replumbed her small bowel so no bag will be required. This all happened over the Easter weekend. We just found out she will need chemo as some of the lymph nodes tested have some rouge cells so without the screening she wouldn't have known.
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Sorry to like your post, Mick but it shows exactly why people should undergo the procedure when invited to do so.

All the best to Mrs Mick for a long and happy future.
 
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