Colonoscopy

End result was fine with a ten year reprieve.Who knows maybe by then things will change for the better

10 years is the new protocol (it used to be 5) I guess eveything was fina and you were you were "squeeky clean."

I was completely sedated for my colonoscopy. All I remember was 3 young nurses and the older female doctor in the room as I entered. Would love to see what happened as they prepped me after I passed out.

What was interesting is finding out that 2 of my female colleagues soonafter went to the same G.I. doctor for their colonoscopies. I overheard a conversation at work that I wasn't supposed to hear! One of those colleagues looks very good when she wears certain skirts and I admit I watch discretely at her shapely bottom as she walks away from me, and yes I have tried to imagine her lying on that same exam table as the nurse spreads her cheeks and generously lubricates her anus. I do love fantasizing about such things.

I'm curious. I have a colonoscopy coming up. If they find something that needs to be removed, how do they get it out? If I have several polyps do they have to pull each one out separately and put the scope back in to get the next one or do they leave them all in and I have to poop them out?

I'm curious. I have a colonoscopy coming up. If they find something that needs to be removed, how do they get it out? If I have several polyps do they have to pull each one out separately and put the scope back in to get the next one or do they leave them all in and I have to poop them out?

They're removed by the time you regain consciousness

The last time I had a colonoscopy, they documented the procedure with photographs and gave me copies afterward. I think there were eight, mostly of removal of polyps. But there was one that showed the scope entering my anus, so as to show some minor scarring that I have from hemorrhoids. I've had colonoscopy six times and flexible sigmoidoscopy twice before that, but this was the first time it was documented with photographs (at least that I was told about).

For my first colonoscopy I asked for conscious sedation so I could watch the screen and observe my own colon. I was told to undress completely and put the gown on just covering my front with my bare back and butt on the bedsheet. Then a nurse installed my IV and I talked briefly with the surgeon and the nurse-anesthetist. Although I was to be merely sedated I could ask for anesthesia should I become uncomfortable. They wheeled me into the OR and I once again gave them my name and birth date. Then they had me roll onto my side and connected the IV. Unfortunately I was not in a position to view the monitor screen. After giving me some sedative I got drowsy and the procedure began. I could clearly feel the rectal exam and the insertion of the scope. When he reached the splenic flexure, however, I got some pretty severe cramping and broke into a sweat, so I asked for anesthesia. They gave me propofol and I woke up feeling rested and very hungry.

I was fully awake during my first colonoscopy. I was propped up laying on my back so I could watch the entire procedure.

The doctor requested that the nurse fetch a pediatric scope. When the doctor went to insert the scope I had to instruct him that my butt hole was higher than where he was pushing.

I actually enjoyed part of the procedure. When the scope went higher and the doctor had to use more air to inflate my colon it felt was similar to a large volume enema. It was a bit uncomfortable but not unbearable.

Halfway through the procedure I should have requested more lube on the scope as my bum started to get just a little sore.

I would definitely do it again being awake. It was nice being able to drive home myself.

Well, its been a year so it's time for another colonoscopy in a couple weeks. Last one was unsedated. Will do that this time. Different dr so this one starts with castor oil

My orientation to the subject of Colonoscopies is in contrast to many of your comments. A veteran of more than a dozen of the endoscopic bowel exams over the past forty years without sedation I confess to having loved every one of them. Given the mandated five year waiting period between exams regulated by medicare, this next months colonoscopy will most likely be my last.

Frankly, I'm puzzled that the same individuals who comment favorably about the crampy effects of a big soapsuds enema, fear the same sensations that accompany a colonoscopy. Watching that long back , lighted tube working it's way high up into my bowl while feeling the pulses of air expanding each loop is the " best ride in the park!" My only regret is that it is over way too soon.

My gastroenterologist, an attractive forty something lady doctor is so quick & proficient that insertion to extraction takes twenty minutes or less.

A favorite fantasy of mine involves being wheeled into the endoscopy suite to find three young female students who have been invited to practice performing the procedure on me under the eye of their doctor. With more enthusiasm than skill, I am repeatedly scoped, inflated, multiple times as each of the young doctors struggle to reach the terminal end of my large bowel as they massage my abdomen to release large amounts of trapped air. A full forty five minutes elapses before each of the three has accomplished there goal and I am left pale and exhausted on the gurney as they flutter by, their white coats flapping in the breeze, stopping briefly to examine the six foot long endoscopes hanging down from a hook.

The procedure itself is a non-event. The bowel prep was awful. I was very close to calling an ambulance because I was so nauseated and dizzy.