Following on from yesterday’s Picolax discussion.

Went for colonoscopy earlier today. Apart for some mild discomfort at one bend it was a non event.

3 very small polyps removed so should reduce future risk.

What was great was the ability to fart long and loud in my room after the procedure. What joy!

However must be some Picolax hangover or my body needing to purge the water wash…

So….if any of you need one or get offered one it’s painless and easy.

I’ve had one and it was pretty much the opposite of what you described. Then again, I had the camera malfunction half way in 🙁

Two things:

1. I’m already sniggering and nothing overly funny has been posted 🙂

2. I can’t read/hear the word colonoscopy without thinking of the Big Bang Theory!

When you look up at the monitor and see your arse getting bigger and then..poof! It disappears. Priceless 😀

Embarrasing bodies ,wednesday, features a colonoscopy.

Ho ho. I missed that bit. However weird seeing appendix around point the Dr entered lower part of small intestine. He said he has 97% success rate at getting to that point.

Glad it went well for you. I was just unlucky, broken camera and then a blockage on second go 😥

Sorry to hear that. Hope all ok now.

quite enjoyed mine…not quite as good as getting your ears syringed. I’d say 6.5 out of 10…

🙂

So…..how long afterwards before things returned to normal in terms of loo visits?

Never returned to normal, IBS, hence the reason for it. Resigned myself to the fact that I’m gonna go Elvis style 8)

Mine went OK and result was an ‘all clear’ so good.

However; I cannot say it was even mildly pleasant or enjoyable and I’d rather not have another one…..

…..Thanks any way 😯

Glad yours went ‘OK’

Much rather have a colonoscopy than a bronchoscopy. Thought I’d be clever
and not have any sedation so I didn’t have to hang about after.
NEVER have I retched so much in my life!

Sedation wins, every time! I’ve had 4 colonoscopies, don’t remember any of them 😀

had a couple of bronchoscopies a few weeks ago. Had been told so many times that it would be horrible that in the end they were just fine if a little bizarre feeling something poking around inside you

Embarasing bodies is on tonight, not wednesday, 20.00 hrs on channel 4, featuring a colonoscopy, and all in the best possible taste.

thought the toast was a bit dry and the tea milky but other than the fancy dress nothing to raise an eyebrow.

My cycling buddy is a gastroenterologist; he does around 55 endoscopies a day, either end. He says that the pain threshold varies from patient to patient, some find it really painful and some hardly notice it.

Can’t be as bad as a pressure flow urodynamics test, where a nurse threads the eye of the needle (or little MrP) with what feels like a garden hose, and it goes in a long way… No wonder the poor chap was trying to hide… Must’ve been cold in the hospital that day too.

Then once they’ve pumped you full to bursting point with saline you get to try to empty it out with the hose still in there before they finally pull it out. Give me picolax any day!

I had the camera malfunction half way in

and they had to send a man in to fix it?

@benz are you suggesting you were conscious “Apart for some mild discomfort at one bend it was a non event.”

I have had the pleasure of one of these but with a “general” – I have to say it was much less uncomfortable than the annual Prostate check 😯 I’m glad to now know there is a blood test alternative and more reliable

Mild sedative which they could have topped up if required. Oh and some pethidine(?)

Watched the journey on the screen…..right round to the small intestine and back again. Interesting watching the polyps being removed. Small forceps, electrical burn one and then one being injected with saline to make it big enough to get with the removal tools.

That said I did feel ‘removed’ from reality….think the drugs worked pretty well 🙂