Hey there, long time, Zeke is doing great, everything I wanted in a furry companion and then some.
I had an endoscopy and colonoscopy today, my first, you're supposed to start them at 50, not liking doctors or hospitals, I passed on getting them. Now that I'm 60 I tend to pay a little more attention to such things, I no longer feel invincible, well haven't a quite a while now. The endo was fine but they removed 13 polyps of various sizes from my colon, now waiting to see if they were cancerous, sometime in the next week I should know.
Part of my hesitation was all the stories about the prep for the colonoscopy. A carnival ride I didn't want to get on. Knowing it was coming and wanting to minimize the horror I hardly ate anything for the week up to the procedure. They slow you down two days before with a residue diet, and then with a liquid diet the day before. Since I started earlier than needed the prep wasn't too bad at all, there was nothing there to liquidize, except all the water I had to drink, hell, I was even wondering if it worked at all.
Apparently it did just fine, nice and clean. The recovery, for me, was the horror story of this ride. (I've had way too many hospital horror stories for one lifetime). In the recovery room I woke up, or came to, in a panic, still woozy from the anesthesia, didn't know where I was, and started ripping things off, the nurse told me to stop, I insisted I had to go to the bathroom, I actually made it to me feet before reinforcements arrived, they tried to calm me down. I wanted to go to the bathroom, so they gave me a urinal, but the pain I was feeling didn't want to come out that end, it was air and lots of it, came out the other end, oh my.
See, if you don't have any problems, it's not a bad procedure, there are no nerves on the colon, but with each polyp they find, they inject a little air during it's removal, and that air comes out later, painfully. Moral of the story do it while you're young and cut down the chances of having a whole bunch the first time, like I did.
It felt good to get home and have a meal. Oh, that prep I didn't think worked so well, well it was working just fine, after that meal.
Ok Mr Murphy, you can leave me alone now, please!
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Glad you got through that ok, I know it's not fun.
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soberbyker (02-20-2019)
I hated the prep stuff. Im glad you got it done. Sending mojo for good results
soberbyker (02-20-2019)
Glad you had it done! I'm overdue, and I know I need to make an appointment sooner than later. My last one was clear, but you never know. My husband has to have a colonoscopy every 2-3 years because he has had a couple of pre-cancerous polyps removed every time. Thank goodness he does, or he'd be dead of colon cancer by now...
If you're 50+ and you haven't had one, you NEED to make an appointment! It can save your life. Colon cancer is usually not detectable until it's too late.
soberbyker (02-20-2019)
Yeah the prep is pretty horrible, I've had three colonoscopy's so far, and number 4 will be this year.
soberbyker (02-20-2019)
Had my first about a month ago. I'm way over the age limit but I can run fast and it took the doc a long time to catch me, LOL. Had a horrible time with the prep, trying to keep it down. Couple of polyps removed, all OK. Doc says again in 3 years. Got my track shoes out and practicing now.
Glad you got it done, know it is a necessary test. Sending good thoughts on the results.
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soberbyker (02-21-2019)
Just to balance things out I think I'll add, the prep was not such a big deal for me. The migraine I got the day of was the worst part.
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soberbyker (02-21-2019)
Got the results today ...
So I don't get the 3 or 10 year reprieve, have to go again next year. I've marked it on my calendar with invisible ink.I got the results back from your procedure and everything checks out fine. All good news. A biopsy from the stomach to look for that bacteria called H pylori came back negative.
The polyps. So most of them came back as typical polyps, what we call adenoma. Technically the precancerous type but they were all completely removed and fairly small. So no big deal no worries there.
A few of the tiny ones did also come back as what we call hyperplastic polyps, they are completely benign polyps. No worries on that.
I told you there's an area next to the one polyp biopsied just to be sure it wasn't polyp tissue it came back benign. So we're good. Good news.
Given the number of polyps you had though I do want to repeat the colonoscopy in a year to make sure there's no new polyp or other small polyps left behind.
Again, thanks for the positive wavs, at least I can breathe easy for a while now, until the next time.
Bill
barry581 (02-21-2019)
What great news.
soberbyker (02-21-2019)
Thanks to all, much appreciated.
Bottom line, get it done on schedule at 50, don't wait until 60 like I did, maybe you won't have as many and need more frequent visits. The whole thing wasn't as bad as the horror stories I've heard.
Beth C (02-24-2019)
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