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Originally posted by treibeis View PostDo I have to eat rotten meat or something to make sure my arsehole's empty?
Hope it all goes off uneventfully. You could pretend that Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance are driving the probe. Or maybe not Donald Pleasance, if I remember the plot of that film correctly.
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Originally posted by Benjm View PostYou could pretend that Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance are driving the probe. Or maybe not Donald Pleasance, if I remember the plot of that film correctly.
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firstly 18 months? You big eejit.
secondly don't worry about the procedure itself. The biggest hassle is the prep, and that's because you are told to drink so much fucking fluid. I always found that while it was the easiest thing in the world to polish off 10 pints of beer, having to consume two pints of fluid is an unbearable imposition.
thirdly, they'll just give you a dose of propofol, and you'll have a nice snooze. The only potential downside is that you may wake up feeling like someone has cut you open, put a fighting cockerel inside you and sewn you back up again, but that's just trapped wind, and it is easily resolved by bouncing up and down a bit, and it will take care of itself. Though the other people in the recovery ward might have something to say about that, you really won't care. Apparently this is what some babies are like all the time.
I woke up mid procedure once, had a bit of a look around, and went straight back to sleep again, so evidently it's not painful while it's going on. Best of luck with the scan, and don't be an eejit. There is no point worrying that the bottom might fall out of your world, when the world is falling out of your bottom on a regular basis.
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Does everybody get to sleep through it apart from me? I've actually had a couple of sections cut out of my large bowel and then had the rest reconnected. Because of this I don't think my angles are particularly rounded enough inside, so they have me changing position mid procedure. Laying on my back is the worst. I hope everything goes ok and take a spare pair of pants in your bag - just in case.
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Shite. That's grim. oh yeah treibeis, if they don't find anything wrong, tell them to check your upper intestines. I went in for a scan a year before my crohns really fucking kicked off, but they didn't find it because they stopped at the valve between the two intestines, and it was six inches the other side.
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The only time I've been actively encouraged to fart was after my first colonoscopy. The recovery area was mixed and I was lying opposite a little old lady.
It was like a frogs chorus.
The biggest problem I have had with the prep is the dehydration, awful. The procedure itself is fascinating, healthy gut, healthy gut, bad gut ulcers and all, good gut.
The last time I had a colonoscopy I was asked if I minded if a group of student nurses observed the procedure. Seeing as my dignity was already compromised I didn't see why not.
I hope they took notes or diagrams. Especially when I farted blue dye.
Anyway, good luck Triebeis.
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Haha. Brusque and efficient. Where are you living again?
A recovery room is just a bunch of beds for people to sleep off their anaesthetic, or while you're waiting for a lift home. It affects different people differently. You're only in there for an hour or two, and that's where they give you the tea and toast.
I must point out that I only had the trapped wind the first time, so presumably after that it wasn't trapped by the time I'd left the film set.
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Glad it went well, tb. I've had three of them, the most recent was last year, where I didn't have any extra medication. The first two times they removed a couple of polyps, which weren't cancerous, but they didn't want them to remain. It's fun watching someone try to lasso a red blob with a bit of wire somewhere in your insides...
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- Mar 2008
- 4915
- Amersfoort. NL
- Bristol City, RC Lens, Borussia Dortmund, Feyenoord, Bath Women's Roller Derby
- Nobosprits.
And so now its my turn. I did the national "drie pricken in je poep" test at 55 and came up positive for blood in my poep.
It's happening on Monday morning, and like everyone on this thread, it's the prep that worries me the most. No alcohol for 60 hours. When was the last time I did that?
According to their lovely leaflets I only have a 12.5% chance of bowel cancer, but then again, doesn't everybody have similar odds for cancer in general?
I just hope they find something, or at least conclude something about my diet. Downstairs hasn't been my strongest department for years.
The worst thing so far though is that it's bringing home just how sad my life has become over here. I'm not allowed to drive home or even get a taxi and both my daughters are unable to help. Ones away and the other has an important test in Amsterdam and can only bring me to the clinic. My lovely neighbour is working and I really can't think of anyone else I'm close enough to to ask. Pretty pathetic really.
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I had one in from the other end recently.
It sounds like it shouldn't be as bad, but I wasn't convinced of that when I was gagging on a 4 foot long camera down me neck. I shoulda taken the sedative, but I wanted to drive home.
I learnt three things from the experience.
1. I don't have aesophageal cancer.
2. I have a hiatus hernia
3. I'll never have a career as a sword swallower.
And it was still oddly less intrusive than the angiogram I had last week.
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