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Janey


sorry I missed all the excitement ...... we've been away for the week, to the proverbial "cabin in the wilds".

Spent most of it cleaning up the damage done by the pack rat who wanted to establish his winter base (hole he made in the wall now fixed, mess cleaned up, and suitable blue granules put down in case he gets back inside), and the bear who had wanted to rip open the screen (new screen installed) and play with our plastic water barrel ....... which now resides in the local dump as it will no longer hold water due to all the punctures!


Just wanted to say that I'm glad that all went well for you.

I've had this done once, but they didn't make me drink any cleansing agents ...... doc said he'd already gone quite a way into the upper intestine when he went in from the top a couple of months earlier, and was only going to do the "bottom end"!


OH has had the procedure several times ........... the first time was in 2005 and resulted in the diagnosis of one cancerous polyp and one non-cancerous polyp, and the subsequent removal of 18" of intestine.

It's almost 2 years since he had the last 'scope, but is about due to go for another one in the next couple of months I believe.

He's the macho male when it comes to such things though, hates any fuss at all.

Remembering that I don't drive ............ he takes the bus down to the hospital by himself (about 20 minute ride), with no problems (that he's told me about any way!). I guess he's completely empty by that ungodly hour of the morning!!

Then I go down to collect him and bring him home by taxi. The doc usually leaves a written message, and the nurses make sure that I get that piece of paper!


He usually does not remember anyhting. We were told the first time that the sedative they use at this hospital contains an "additive" that makes you forget what's happened!

I did say you'd be blowing your own trumpet...}}}}}}}

good luck with results,

Glad it's over, Janey, hope the results are good.

Gwynne

The stuff you have to take -- it was quite different for me from what everyone there has.

http://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=17&m=1401808

A discussion of the merits from one person's perspective -- Picosalax vs Purg-odan (what I took, actually the cheaper generic of it).

Aha. It's Canadian, and it's new.

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http://www.odanlab.com/press.php?article=270〈=en

Effective June 14th 2010, the Ontario Drug Benefit Formulary (ODBF) is listing Purg-Odan on the ODB Formulary Drug Index as interchangeable with Pico-Salax.

Purg-Odan is the first lower price equivalent to Pico-Salax and is now listed in more than 800 hospitals and health care centers across Canada. Purg-Odan pleasant-tasting, orange-flavoured, oral purgative is used for clearance of the bowel prior to x-ray examination, endoscopy or surgery. Purg-Odan is listed on the ODB Formulary in a two-sachet pack (Purg-Odan).

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And it really is what it says -- pleasant-tasting orange-flavoured. And you drink only just over 1/4 cup, twice over two days.

It doesn't fix the not being able to eat. (I'd be sure to drink tea so as to get the caffeine if you normally drink caffeine, as stopping that suddenly can cause terrible headaches too). But it sure sounds better than the nauseating multiple-quart regimen you folks have described!

And I assure you, my innards were clean and shiny when I was done, saw the evidence myself. ;)

And for the wind ... do ask for that tube if it isn't offered. ;) It really did help instantly.

Janey so pleased it all went well for you. I have had a few colonoscopys, I dont fine them to bad, its the picolax we have to take the day before the procedure. I get terrible migraine when I cant eat , tried the lucozade and all the other tips the nurses told me about, but nothing works. The first time I went for one, my migraine was so bad, the nurse took one look at me and said I looked like i had already had the procedure done. And afterwards I could not get rid of my wind. The man in the next bed was happily f**ting away in his sleep lol.

Well Maggie, there is one thing I can recommend for that wind pain ...

The nurse offered me a, ahem, rectal tube when I got up. I brushed her off. A minute later, having considerable wind pain that didn't seem to be abating the normal way,I thought hey, why not? So she did it, and I went poof like a balloon and it helped considerably right away ... but apparently I poofed a lot more in the recovery room, according to the nurse who said afterward she could hear me across the room. I couldn't hear or even feel, because of the ambient noise and the tube, but I guess she had a trained ear. ;)

(They do want to make sure you're f**ting properly, as well as having your BP get back up and acting semi-intelligent, before they let you go.)

Now, big squishy hugs might work as well ........

It's lovely that you're sharing your experiences with wind. Friends who f**t together stay together:-))

Glad it went ok for you Janey - and another big squishy (((hug))) for you 'cos I know you lurve them:-))

S x

Gald it went smoothly, Janey.
I had the procedure a few years ago - without any sedation - and was well miffed when they wouldn't let me watch the monitor!!!
The only problem I was was wind pain and f*rting afterwards!!! LOL

Ah, interesting, Jean, another risk factor.

Skin cancers are all over my mum's family (her and all 3 brothers, and her mum and dad) -- every single kind but melanoma. (And interestingly, my doc told me this summer that melanoma is the one skin cancer that hasn't been connected with sun exposure!) On the other side, my dad died of melanoma that seemed not to have originated on the skin, and a year later my brother had a stage 1 melanoma on his leg.

But your face polyp is a different sort of thing I guess; interesting the connections they make, though. Hope you hear soon. I'm gathering that polyps are the things that can become cancer. Early detection and removal, and all that!

Janey, your experience sounds like mine a few years ago, am now waiting to see if they want to do it again. The dermatologist says the kind of polyp removed from my face often also shows up in the bowel, so she put me down on a list to be seen, but so far have heard nothing.

Happy you had no problems xx Apart from the tooth.

Pleased all went well,
Liz
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Glad it all went well.

I'm baaaack. ;)

Totally uneventful. The prep, the procedure, the whole thing.

So since my real aim was to encourage anyone who should be having a colonoscopy to go and get one, I can now speak with the voice of experience and say: do it! It's no big deal.

The doc did find one teeny tiny polyp in me and took it out.

The results will take about a month, I think it was. If it shows anything, I go back for a repeat in 3 years; if not, 5 years. (That's because I'm at "increased risk" because of a sister with colorectal cancer at a very young age.)

I had only one bad consequence.

They gave me a turkey salad sandwich in the recovery room, and mushy as it was, I managed to break another piece of tooth off the molar I broke last week. Already cracked, obviously, if all it took was a mushy sandwich to finish it off. ;)

Other than that, I was well sedated, it did hurt a bit (part of that is the gas they pump you full of, part was the actual pushing of the scope around), I got conscious enough about 2/3 of the way through to watch the last bit on the colour TV screen, and apparently I made lots of gas noises (wind to you!) in the recovery room.

The whole thing from arrival at hospital to release from recovery room was 2 hours. And I slept for many hours when I got home. ;)

Hope all went well, please keep us updated
Regards, Liz

good luck janey xxx

Feeling better, Janey?

Hope everything went alright today Janey xx♥xx

Good luck, Janey. BCXX

Now I just feel like a big baby -- look how many people have had this done to them and lived to tell the tale!

My thread is purely educational. ;)

Talked to my little sister this afternoon. She was not much help on the sedative side, but said her experience was pretty la la la so that's the standard I'll be measuring by. If it ain't la la la, it ain't enough!