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The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
First time colonoscopy prep

This is gross
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My third colonoscopy is scheduled for later this year.

The first one, I had to drink some terrible tasting material, then two large gatorades in the span of about 30 minutes. I survived.

The second time was a piece of cake. They gave me some kool aid type of mix to put into the two large gatorades, and it went down like a charm.

When I got my third one scheduled, she gave me a six page instruction manual with a detailed schedule going out a week ahead of time. WTF? Just go back to the two large gatorades with the kool aid in it. That worked great.

Like I tell my wife, anyone who wants to know what it feels like to be a Saturn 5 rocket, colonoscopy prep is likely as close as they'll come. :ROFLMAO:
 
Yeah I had the mix I dumped into Gatorade’. The problem wasn’t the taste- it was the amount. I ended up projectile vomiting like a horror movie. Of course that was just the first thing to projectile out of my body and sure wasn’t the last

Woke up at 6 to chug the nasty 10 oz mix and that was tougher. So gross.

Actual procedure is a breeze, but I have issues with chugging that much so fast
 
SJHovey said:
My third colonoscopy is scheduled for later this year.

The first one, I had to drink some terrible tasting material, then two large gatorades in the span of about 30 minutes. I survived.

The second time was a piece of cake. They gave me some kool aid type of mix to put into the two large gatorades, and it went down like a charm.

When I got my third one scheduled, she gave me a six page instruction manual with a detailed schedule going out a week ahead of time. WTF? Just go back to the two large gatorades with the kool aid in it. That worked great.

Like I tell my wife, anyone who wants to know what it feels like to be a Saturn 5 rocket, colonoscopy prep is likely as close as they'll come. :ROFLMAO:
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I saw a relative riding a water hoverboard recently and …let’s just say the rocket comparison seems dead on. Just like a hoverboard
 
Was told by a relative at a family event yesterday that I suffered my blood clots that could have killed me because I submitted myself to the Covid vaccine. This relative has no medical training whatsoever of course.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Was told by a relative at a family event yesterday that I suffered my blood clots that could have killed me because I submitted myself to the Covid vaccine. This relative has no medical training whatsoever of course.
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"Sorry you feel that way. Hope Trump gives you everything you voted for - good and hard."

I'm done with these idiots, I don't care if they're family. That response strikes at two things MAGA really doesn't like - being told their opinion is based on emotions and their feelings (something they always accuse liberals of) and being reminded of the consequences of their vote (which they are still in denial about).
 
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Kepler said:
Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?



This. Start earlier. I had mine at 52 but in retrospect just start at 45 ferchrissakes -- risk/reward.

BTW, everybody talks about the prep being horrific but I just found it to be gross and an inconvenience, it's not actually painful or anything.

The procedure is a breeze (because you're on a beach on the Pain Killer Archipelago) and there's no aftermath issues atoll.
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Agree. A colonoscopy 5 years ago revealed colon cancer, which resulted in removal of a chunk of my colon. Been clean since. The procedure itself is painless and unburdensome, and the prep is little more than an inconvenience. Having gas and the runs for several hours is a hell of a lot easier to deal with than chemo and radiation, to say nothing of miserable death.

I did have some post sedation issues, but I can’t remember what they were.
 
burd said:
Agree. A colonoscopy 5 years ago revealed colon cancer, which resulted in removal of a chunk of my colon. Been clean since. The procedure itself is painless and unburdensome, and the prep is little more than an inconvenience. Having gas and the runs for several hours is a hell of a lot easier to deal with than chemo and radiation, to say nothing of miserable death.

I did have some post sedation issues, but I can’t remember what they were.
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I know I complained about how gross the prep was, and it was, but I lost a close family member to colon cancer in in their mid 20s years ago. I was more grossed out by the vomiting because I couldn’t drink that much liquid in the timeframe
 
I've had over a 15 colonoscopies . I don't clean out well so I get to stop eating 2 days before the procedure. Its a pain in the ass :) but colon cancer chances for me are elevated after 40 years of Ulcerative Colitis. I'm one the lucky ones who has clean scopes because of a diet that I follow religiously, my doctor buddy calls it the discipline diet as most folks would rather eat a standard American diet (aka SAD) and take biologics that don't cure anything but numb your immune system. I just had another Scope after Cipro for an operation wrecked my guts. I can guarantee none of you want C Diff., 2 rounds of Antibiotics and then a course of VOWST(12 pills, $18 grand) which is a top down fecal matter transplant, So I've
actually eaten shit but didn't die :) I had the scope about a month after the VOWST , no signs of either CDiff or Colitis. My Gastro doesn't believe in my diet but says keep doing what you are doing :)
 
French Rage said:
In a row?
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over many years, one every 18 months, they want to do it every year but it disrupts the bacteria in my gut and it sometimes is hard to get that balance again. The diet is designed to keep the balance by eating easily digestable foods. If curious its called specific carbohydrate diet or scd
 
Can't remember if I've shared this or not, but my uncle (Cornell '68) was co-patent holder of the first video endoscope. He won a bunch of awards, including the ASME Holley Medal for "outstanding and unique act(s) of an engineering nature, accomplishing a noteworthy and timely public benefit," and went on to be VP of product development at his firm and also made notable advancements in the early diagnosis of Alzheimers.

He and his co-patent holder were in the next room when President Reagan had his colon surgery, just in case anything went wrong with their equipment. His partner used a "selfie" (1985!) of him with Reagan in the hospital bed for his Christmas card that year...
 
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