In a previous post, I shared my nervousness about an overdue colonoscopy. Thankfully, I'm polyp and cancer free. This is obviously great news to my ears, but I'm all too aware that this outcome is not the final word.
I've had polyps before and will most likely have them again. Add in my family history with my HIV and I'm nowhere near being off the hook for colonoscopies into the foreseeable future. Not a pretty picture.
There's only so much medicine that a spoonful of sugar can help. If only those two quarts of MoviPrep could taste and behave more like beer, then I'd probably have a much different attitude about it all.
I know, the alternative to regular colonoscopies is the risk of waking up one day to a cancerous tumor I could have prevented. So, I'll continue to consent to the torture, I mean simple procedure, but I won't stop dreading it.
Click here to see this silly video on dosing instructions for MoviPrep:
Oriol on:
I've had polyps before and will most likely have them again. Add in my family history with my HIV and I'm nowhere near being off the hook for colonoscopies into the foreseeable future. Not a pretty picture.
There's only so much medicine that a spoonful of sugar can help. If only those two quarts of MoviPrep could taste and behave more like beer, then I'd probably have a much different attitude about it all.
I know, the alternative to regular colonoscopies is the risk of waking up one day to a cancerous tumor I could have prevented. So, I'll continue to consent to the torture, I mean simple procedure, but I won't stop dreading it.
Click here to see this silly video on dosing instructions for MoviPrep:
Oriol on:
For my next colonoscopy I'm going to request OsmoPrep--it's a tablet prep that you take with any clear liquid (water, Sprite, gatorade). You take a bunch (32 pills) over a short period of time with 64 oz of liquid, but ANYTHING is better than that nasty traditional prep. That's the worst part of the whole experience for me. I can hardly gag it down.
yeah the prep is the killer ...... but in my first procedure a polyp WAS discovered so perhaps THAT could have THE KILLER !! those pills sound interesting but actually for me it was the resulting cramps from all the evacuation i wish could be avoided.
Sounds easier than the 16 glass of salty Trilight garbage I usually have to drink , but I understand many of the other preps have a risk if kidney damage why the Drs. always wanted me to use trilight. Glad your test went OK. I've had the polyps but am going to have to find a new Dr. for next colonscopy to recheck the ones this Dr. did not remove because my last Dr. was so homophobic, Aids-o-phobic he made very very very uncomfortable and I'll never go back. ( by the way, I am not gay, even though I do have gay friends). He even made my wife uncomfortable.
doctors can use to find and diagnose problems in the colon and the distal part of the small bowel. It uses a small camera inserted through the anus in order to remotely view the internal structures of the digestive system. The colonoscopy is especially useful for finding ulcers and polyps, and it can also be an instrument for guiding doctors when they are performing biopsies or surgeries.