Anybody besides me sorry to see the rigid sigmoidoscopy repaced with the flex sig?

I always enjoyed the rigid sigmoidoscopy from prep to actual procedure. My GP used enemas till clear as the prep. I loved the feeling of the rigid scope sliding into me with the aid of some air. My only regret was that they were over too quickly. I don't get the same thrill from the flex sig and definitely not from the colonoscopies since you're in a twilight sleep and no recollection of what went on.

I'd love the experience, but unfortunately, never had it. I do stay awake for my colonoscopies, however. That's fun.

I had a flex sig but did not enjoy the cramps from the air. Also, I just had my third colonscopy. Your recollection of the procedure depends on the drugs used for the anesthetic. For mine, they used Valium and something like Demerol and I watched (on screen) and remember the whole procedure. If they use Versed, you will probably forget everything.

Before the flex sigs, the rigid scope was king. It was 25cm of gleaming stainless steel about 1" in diameter. Having the procedure was called" being ridden by the Silver Stallion ."

I've had the flexible sig twice and enjoyed it both times. I did have a rigid proctoscope when I was a child. I think I was about 9-10 years old. About all I remember is seeing the scope on a table and then the nurse and my mom pulling down my underwear and holding me down on the table while the doctor did the procedure.

Never had the rigid sig but did have a barium enema x-ray. So embarrassing

I had the rigid. Sig many times and yes I must admit. I miss it!

I lucked out with an internal medicine doctor in NYC from the old school, although he was never pleasant. When you called to get an appointment for a physical, his male secretary would add instructions to use two, not one, Fleet enemas prior to arrival, which everyone sitting waiting would hear, the area being open. The doctor's last step, after hernia, was to have a patient on hands and knees, right shoulder down, so he could use the rigid sigmoidoscope. Every physical included it.

My GP used the rigid sigmoidoscope at every annual exam. This ended when he passed away about 15 years ago. I was given a Fleet enema by his assistant when I first showed up at the office, and the scope was the very last part of the his examination. I would be positioned in the knee-chest, the assistant would cover me with a paper drape and tear a hole in the appropriate spot.

The scope would be well lubed, and air was used as the scope was advanced fairly quickly and was quite uncomfortable as the various curves were negotiated. It would be inserted to the hilt, and I could feel the flange when it pressed up against my buttocks. It would then be withdrawn very slowly. One time a small polyp was discovered and it was removed with some kind of snare that was passed through the scope, so the exam was worth it.

My GP used the rigid sigmoidoscope at every annual exam.

I've never had the pleasure of having any type of scope on me for each annual exam. I guess I've just never found a doctor who was that thorough. I can only hope that I'll eventually find one like that.

Sorry boys, but that's why we have drugs! Anything going that far up the rear exit ............... well to each his/her own. I enjoy a nice prostate massage, some anal play and I always have time for a good enema session but anything medically related.......BRING ON THE DRUGS!

I got to ride the rigid stallion one time in my GP's office to check on a positive blood indication from my DRE smear. Turned out to be a hemmorhoid, but it was neat to have something that rigid that far up my colon. The worst I can say is it was slightly, mildly uncomfortable while using some air to advance the scope. Under a play exam, it could be very stimulating to this anal erotic.

Never had a rigid sig, but heard about them. How big in diameter was the rigid scope?

I had a flex sig once and it wasn't that bad. The nurse took me into the exam room and told me to undress completely from the waist down. I was wearing a t-shirt under my regular shirt so I kept that on but everything else came off. She had left a small sheet for me to place over my lap while waiting for the doctor. So there I sat bare bottom on the table and waited. He came in and did the exam with me lying on my side. Digital rectal exam first, then an anoscope, and then the flex sig. Found nothing of concern. I don't remember any discomfort from air pumped in. The only prep was an enema the night before and an enema the morning of the exam at home and nothing to eat that morning. I hadn't had an enema before and those are not that easier to do to yourself the first time.

My play doc still has one of these wonderful pieces of antiquated medical equipment. I will never forget her telling me how pink my rectum was. I asked her if I could see hers, she was concerned about being "brown". I told her not to worry and placed the scope in her lovely asshole. She was very pink. Mmmmmmmmm.

I had an older male doctor some years back, during my first appointment with him I indicated that I saw some blood on the toilet paper after a bowel movement. After the genital and rectal exam he left the room and had his nurse, an older woman, come in to administer two Fleet enemas. When she was done with the enemas she brought out two versions of the rigid scope from a drawer. When the doctor came back into the exam room he had me get on all fours, then rest my left shoulder down on the table. He did another rectal exam to lube me up. The nurse asked which scope he wanted, he said 25 cm. She handed him the instrument and before I knew it it was inserted well into my rectum. It was only a little uncomfortable. After that having a rigid sigmoidoscopy became routine practice during my physical exam. I miss that...

When suffering from incipient ulcerative colitis years ago I had a sigmoidoscopy done with a rigid instrument. I was asked to take two enemas at home, which I did with an old-fashioned high-volume water enema. Upon arriving at the hospital I was told to undress and put on the usual gon. The nurse hen game me a Fleet enema on my side, then told to go into a knee-chest position until I had to "go." I was not allowed to flush the toilet so she could sees the "coast was clear." I was then lead into a room with about 20 sweet teenage candy-stripers and asked if I mended them being there to observe and learn. I said OK and was lead to a contraption that you knelt on with legs wide apart and stirrups that you held onto up high. The doctor then rapidly turned a crank that swung my ass up into the air. My gown dropped over my back and I thought I was going to just keep going up and over, but I didn't. With my ass ip high in the air, the nurse quickly grabbed some lubricant and pushed it down my gaping hole. She then handed the doctor the sigmoidoscope - rigid tube - and he climbed up on a pedestal and slipped it into my rectum. I could feel the obturator being removed and he pushed it in deeper, wiggled it around and made his observations. He withdrew it and the nurse immediately lubricated me again and the procedure was repeated. I was then done and told to return to the prep rom and dress. The whole procedure was a hell of a surprise. I hope the candy-stripers enjoyed it. I've had few-sigs since but never with the same ceremony and audience as the first time. I do miss the old tube but in the "up"position it is an entirely different feeling and experience than if it had been done in a doctor's office.

Had one of these so long ago I had forgotten about it. Prep included fasting, two ducolax suppositories the night before and two Fleet enemas in the morning, one self administered at home and one given in the office Up on the table on my knees right shoulder down then nervously waited while the device was brought into position. More embarrassment than discomfort. Only done once but certainly would not have balked if it had been suggested again.

My doctor asked me about getting a colonoscopy last year and I asked if we couldn't just do the short version instead, for now (thinking of the rigid scope) and she thought I was referring to the sigmoidoscopy. I wasn't brave enough to tell I was thinking of the old metal one.

I also experienced one of those, wondering how that rigid scope would fit, even with the air pumped in. I agree that in a Playdoc situation it could be much more enjoyable.

My GP was big on doing a flexible sigmoidoscopy at least every year. This was before colonoscopies were popular. When the doc retired, I went on to have my first colonoscopy; but the prep was such a pain, that I never did another. A flexible sigmoidoscopy is such an easy procedure by comparison that I wish it was still as available/popular as it used to be - true, it can miss things further up; but would be better than nothing; at least in my case. I'd even welcome a rigid sigmoidoscopy.

I've had the same GP for several years and with each physical exam I have a rigid sigmoidoscopy full insertion each time in the knee/chest position. He now has a new Andro chair which makes the position for the sigmoidoscopy much more comfortable.