It looks for genetic indicators in the stool and it's an Rx from the doctor. Cologuard is the name of what I did. It's not for certain risk groups, which I don't fall into.
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I have a colonoscopy tomorrow and I just took all the tablets that are going to ruin the rest of my day
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It looks for genetic indicators in the stool and it's an Rx from the doctor. Cologuard is the name of what I did. It's not for certain risk groups, which I don't fall into.
Din know theres a pill option now. Seems much better than gulping 4 litres of water down over an hour.
I just had to do this and I'm praying they find something wrong with me through that, that way I can cancel my colonoscopy.
So how's it work? They shove a camera up there but uc they find a polyp how do they remove it? Does the camera have little robot claws?
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Dunno but my paperwork says "colonoscopy with possible polypectomy and biopsy" which presumably means they have some sort of instrument 🤷♂️
The camera is on a tube like any other scope I believe
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4.5 hours in and considering rolling the dice on a trip to the store to pick up a couple things I'm gonna need tomorrow...🤔
Yeah I wish they gave me pills. I had to really try for 30 minutes not to puke it all right back up.
I didn't know the meaning of diarrhea until I had my first colonoscopy last year. My prep was 2 bottles of liquid (1 the night before and 1 the morning of). I still gag thinking of the taste, but that's not even the worst part. Schedule that shit as early in the morning as possible. The prep is the fucking worst.
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I'm 33 and should probably have one in the next few years. I have no related symptoms but an uncle had colon cancer in his early 40s (and beat it), so there is a bit of a family history there.
I feel like I don't even know what the procedure itself is totally comprised of, haha. Do you get completely put to sleep for it or are you awake and just numb? Like novocain for inside your ass.
I feel like I don't even know what the procedure itself is totally comprised of, haha. Do you get completely put to sleep for it or are you awake and just numb? Like novocain for inside your ass.
I got my first colonoscopy 3 years ago when I was 25, and sure enough they found a precancerous polyp. I might have been absolutely fucked if I waited until the recommended age to get one.
The prep was awful but the procedure itself was completely painless. Put me to sleep and when I woke up I thought it hadn't even started yet.
The prep was awful but the procedure itself was completely painless. Put me to sleep and when I woke up I thought it hadn't even started yet.
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i Remember when I got my colonoscopy I was in the office waiting to be called and I'm seeing guys rushing to the restroom in a mad haste and it was just one so they were banging on the door like their life's were on the line.
i did this a couple months ago. drinking that juice was easily the worst part. putting that much liquid down for me wasn't easy, and the juice tasted so fucking weird. other people i know got a lemon flavored one. mine was weird flavored. absolutely awful. the bathroom trips and no solids was the easy part for me.
i didn't think of using a chaser until a few rounds of it. it wasn't too bad after that. next time i do it, i won't choose to have it done first thing in the morning. getting up at 3 am to drink another gallon of weird juice wasn't a good decision lol.
i didn't think of using a chaser until a few rounds of it. it wasn't too bad after that. next time i do it, i won't choose to have it done first thing in the morning. getting up at 3 am to drink another gallon of weird juice wasn't a good decision lol.
I am 35 and have not gotten one yet. Although I have had symptoms over the years but that was normal stuff and a diet change helped. More fiber and veggies. I do have a family history. My grandfather got it and they beat it but the cancer spread to his liver and he passed away. However he only got it because he didn't get his colonoscopy or stopped going all together. . I think after my grandmother passed away he stopped caring.
He also smoked a ton as well.
He also smoked a ton as well.
I was having issues a couple years ago and had an appointment with a doctor about a colonoscopy. I started getting better a couple weeks before the appointment and cancelled it. If I can help it, I'm never going to get a colonoscopy or prostate exam. That hole is a one way, exit only. Nothing's going up it.
honestly, mine wasn't too bad (the prep work I mean, the colonoscopy is nothing). I got picoprep, which is a powder you mix with water (which gets warm due to some reaction which was funny) and you take one big glass the first time and the other in the morning (my colonoscopy was at 12). Tastes like some shitty orange drink and after about an hour it goes into effect. I just had to drink 2 liters of water to refill my fluids, but it was fairly painless. Outside of the constant squirting out of my ass obviously.
My issues also were almost gone by that time and the doctor even suggested cancelling it, but I felt like I needed to know for myself so I went ahead with it. They found 3 benign polyps that could have become cancerous and now I have to get checked every 5 years (this was 3 years ago). So I'm glad I had one and really, the colonoscopy is nothing; you don't really feel it anyway and it gives you some peace of mind or it could potentially save your life.
No one is going to see my bare ass. It was bad enough wearing a hospital gown when they did injections in my back. Besides, if anything ever did happen, my life isn't worth saving. Everyone would be better off without me.
How does that work? What do you even eat? Just soups? Im still years from needing these done, but I gag at the idea of a week straight of just broth or those ensure canisters drinks
It's nothing that dramatic. Just some dietary changes a few days before the procedure can help. Avoiding fatty foods, seeds / nuts / popcorn, grains, tough meat, fruit. That sort of thing.
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How does that work? What do you even eat? Just soups? Im still years from needing these done, but I gag at the idea of a week straight of just broth or those ensure canisters drinks
I had ramen on Sunday for dinner, it's not that bad. No pork belly or spiciness or whatnot but was perfectly fine and caused no problems. And I've only really been heavily modifying my diet since Friday. Nobody was really stopping me from eating most things before Monday mid-morning, but once you've gone through this one time you know better than to fuck with a bunch of grease and capsaicin flowing out of you for hours
I am ready for real food again right now though. I can still have plain chicken broth for a few more hours and it's starting to sound pretty good
Just hope they don't delay it and keep you hanging for hours. I had surgery a few years ago that was scheduled at 10:30 am. It was 2:30 pm when they took me back to the operating room. I couldn't eat after midnight the night before, so I was starving by the time I got to the recovery room.
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Oh yeah, I've been there too, for a back/implant surgery. That sucked. I'm hoping since it's straightforward, first thing in the morning, and doesn't seem like the doc who ordered it would be the kind of specialty that would elicit emergency needs very often (colo-rectal surgeon), that everything goes smoothly 🤞
The real challenge will be not eating anything stupid as soon as I get out. I've been fantasizing about a giant chicken-fried steak with a pile of eggs and bacon on top drowning in country gravy. My mom is my ride so I'm probably safe, she won't abide such nonsense
I remember my mum had to take a bunch of powder dissolved in water for a colonoscopy. She had a shitload left over afterwards so I nicked it, put it in a bottle of coke and gave it to one of the shitty bullies at school when he was demanding I give him my drink, like he'd always do to kids. He left a class partway through and we didn't see him for the rest of the day, but I know he had an absolutely awful day. One of the highlight memories of being at school.
Stopping with solid foot a few days ahead is definitely the way to go as far as I have heard. But it's still not a pleasant experience anyway. Hope they'll find everything alright OP!
The jug is the jug of the devil. I prefer going to the dentist for three hours straight than drink this garbage. The worst is, your body remembers that it makes you sick (in my case I vomit about half of it so I get twice the amount ) and everytime it gets worse.
As I understand it, the camera instrument also has a metal loop for polyp removal. They loop the polyp, the metal heats to high temperatures, and they just kinda pull the loop. The polyp gets cut off into a retrieval device, while the heat cauterizes the wound.
That lemon water stuff is evil. I got through one pack but I everytime I would even thinking about the second pack, I would almost throw up.
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Getting ready to start round two and just a little less enthusastic about doing this a second time in the middle of the night
Freaky. I've never had major surgery so I've never gone under like that before. The idea of being deliberately put to sleep by someone/something, instead of just drifting off when you're tired, weirds me out for some reason.
I was gonna say, the biggest mistake I made was starting taking the laxatives at 2pm. I wish I had took the day off and started taking them in the morning.
I only got 1-2 hours of sleep before I went in for the procedure. I scheduled it for 8 or 9 am. And I had to get up around 3 - 5 am to finish taking the laxatives.
Agree, this is what I did. At least a day before I started taking them.
Yeah, I drank that prep stuff for a colonoscopy and that shit was nasty. I'd rather take a pill.
Good luck, OP! I have my first coming up next week and I'm kind of dreading it. Think they gave me the pills. Just stuck them in the hall closet and haven't been brave enough to read through the directions yet 😅 I just know I'm going to be hungry and miserable going in
I've had to do colonoscopies since I was 16 and I've tried a bunch of prep. The jug has honestly been the most gentle for me. Others have cause intense cramping.
So now that it's yearly for me, I take a day off work, eat light. Then in the evening I do the jug thing while I watch bad TV.
So now that it's yearly for me, I take a day off work, eat light. Then in the evening I do the jug thing while I watch bad TV.
Golytely is that wonderful jug of liquid we give to patients along with some antibiotics that clear people out. If they can't drink it, we place an nasal gastric tube in them and administer it through that. Its definitely something I don't want to experience but I give it to people all the time when we prep for colon surgery.
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I'm all hooked up in here and ready to go and having an embarrassing cyborg problem
I left my remote for my stimulator at home. They don't want to proceed w/o being able to put it in surgery mode. Usually they have a device that can do this here buuuut I guess not today.
So I just sent my mom to my house to root around and find the thing. Ugh 🤦♂️
I left my remote for my stimulator at home. They don't want to proceed w/o being able to put it in surgery mode. Usually they have a device that can do this here buuuut I guess not today.
So I just sent my mom to my house to root around and find the thing. Ugh 🤦♂️
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