Ack! Colonoscopy next tuesday for me.

[Gracie]

I'm going to go play pogo and try to chill out a bit..unstress..then I am going to bed.
Thanks for all the info, folks. I will muse on it until monday, then call and cancel. At least I will be better prepared for later on when I DO have it done.

 

[Gracie]

I think my plan of action is to eat very light over the weekend. Nothing heavy. Cream of rice, maybe soup. Maybe scrambed eggs. On monday, I do the prep and then drink the Nasties. I wonder if it is as bad as Barium? I sucked that stuff down like it was a milkshake. Is GoLytely worse than barium?

Nah, you gotta chow down on the weekend! load up on the meat and potatoes. Swallow some chewing gum. Eat Spam straight from the can. If you gotta drink all that nasty stuff and probably take some laxatives on top of it all, you might as well get all the fireworks you're paying for anyway. Get the cannon fully loaded before you drink the gun powder.

Gee. Thanks.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

I have been discussing this with some old online friends of mine and I have told them more than I am telling here. I have decided to NOT do the colonoscopy for awhile. I have to get other things taken care of first. This is going too fast. I don't have enough info from my gastrowhatever doctor...and I still have the other issue with another doctor about something that needs to be taken care of first, I think.

Too soon. Too fast. It can wait another month. So that's what I decided to do. I can't tell you all here what is going on...it's embarassing to me on some level and my brain is overwhelmed right now...and I am afraid. So...not gonna do this right now.

Oh, sure, it can wait a month or so if you have other priorities.

And when it comes time that you decide to go through with it, remember...no big deal. Neither the prep nor the procedure itself are a big deal.

 

[Noomi]

I'm going to go play pogo and try to chill out a bit..unstress..then I am going to bed.
Thanks for all the info, folks. I will muse on it until monday, then call and cancel. At least I will be better prepared for later on when I DO have it done.

Gracie, I know you are worried, but it is better to get this over and done with, because in a few weeks you will be going through the same emotions again.
Go and get it done, so you no longer have to worry about it.

 

[KissMy]

Drinking the stuff the day before is worse than the procedure, imo.

Drinking the stuff & spending the day before shitting your guts out is the worst part. I don't remember the procedure.

 

[Unkotare]

It sucks. I wouldn't believe the "it's nothing!" posts here, BUT don't be a wuss about it. If you gotta do something horrible, just do it and get it over with. You'll be ten times more nervous next time if you spend time brooding over it and imagining the worst. Suck it up and be done with it.

 

[Jos]

Pretend your a gay man, and enjoy

 

[whitehall]

Some segments of society apparently enjoy a good colonoscopy every chance they get.

 

[Gracie]

I spoke to my pharmacist today, and got the stuff. I also still plan on canceling Tuesdays procedure and waiting a month...so sometime in July. I have personal reasons why waiting another month will be better for me and I won't be so stressed out. Plus, the inlaws will be here by then and be able to help me in other matters.

So....I'll do it. Got more info from the pharmacist (he said take my HBP pills with a little water and ignore what the docs assistant said), and he knows me more than the doc does since he has been my pharmacist for years..and knows all the meds I take. The stuff is in the cabinet and will be activated with the water once I know the date of the newly appointed procedure. In July.

And I feel much better with this decision.

 

[Unkotare]

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[Kooshdakhaa]

I spoke to my pharmacist today, and got the stuff. I also still plan on canceling Tuesdays procedure and waiting a month...so sometime in July. I have personal reasons why waiting another month will be better for me and I won't be so stressed out. Plus, the inlaws will be here by then and be able to help me in other matters.

So....I'll do it. Got more info from the pharmacist (he said take my HBP pills with a little water and ignore what the docs assistant said), and he knows me more than the doc does since he has been my pharmacist for years..and knows all the meds I take. The stuff is in the cabinet and will be activated with the water once I know the date of the newly appointed procedure. In July.

And I feel much better with this decision.

You said your doc said to take the blood pressure pills. It's just the girl at the front desk who told you not to, right? I'd certainly listen to the pharmacist and the doctor before I'd listen to her. Wouldn't hurt to clarify it with the doctor himself, though.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Drinking the stuff the day before is worse than the procedure, imo.

Drinking the stuff & spending the day before shitting your guts out is the worst part. I don't remember the procedure.

See, it's terminology like "shitting your guts out" that makes people afraid to get this simple procedure done.

Good grief. It's not that bad at all. It's like a cleanse.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

It sucks. I wouldn't believe the "it's nothing!" posts here, BUT don't be a wuss about it. If you gotta do something horrible, just do it and get it over with. You'll be ten times more nervous next time if you spend time brooding over it and imagining the worst. Suck it up and be done with it.

Bullshit. If you think it's "horrible" and sucks so much, I think maybe you are a wuss.

Don't project your wussiness on everybody else.

It was more of an inconvenience than painful or awful or any of these other inaccurate descriptions. And I'm not that tough, I'm a worrier. But I wish I'd never spent a moment worrying about the colonoscopy. It just wasn't that bad.

Let's end the drama about colonoscopies NOW.

 

[Unkotare]

It sucks. I wouldn't believe the "it's nothing!" posts here, BUT don't be a wuss about it. If you gotta do something horrible, just do it and get it over with. You'll be ten times more nervous next time if you spend time brooding over it and imagining the worst. Suck it up and be done with it.

Bullshit. If you think it's "horrible" and sucks so much, I think maybe you are a wuss.

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I think maybe YOU enjoy having objects put in certain places more than you otherwise might want to admit.

 

[syrenn]

It sucks. I wouldn't believe the "it's nothing!" posts here, BUT don't be a wuss about it. If you gotta do something horrible, just do it and get it over with. You'll be ten times more nervous next time if you spend time brooding over it and imagining the worst. Suck it up and be done with it.

Bullshit. If you think it's "horrible" and sucks so much, I think maybe you are a wuss.

Don't project your wussiness on everybody else.

It was more of an inconvenience than painful or awful or any of these other inaccurate descriptions. And I'm not that tough, I'm a worrier. But I wish I'd never spent a moment worrying about the colonoscopy. It just wasn't that bad.

Let's end the drama about colonoscopies NOW.

the worst part for me..... was when the neighbor showed up in the middle of taking the prep.... and needed to be taken to the ER.

I felt so bad that i couldn't go with him.

 

[Unkotare]

the worst part for me..... was when the neighbor showed up in the middle of taking the prep.... and needed to be taken to the ER.

I felt so bad that i couldn't go with him.

I guess he was just shit outta luck.

 

[Gracie]

I dunno. I'm still thinking about it. Just in case I change my mind again...I plan on having a light dinner tonight. Tomorrow, easy meals like cereal (cream of rice), fruits, pudding, baked tater. Then on monday...I will know whether I want to cancel or go on the liquid clear diet and start drinking the stuff. The container does not look that big to me now that I have it in my possession. I drink 4 bottles of water within just a few hours and that is 16 oz per bottle. So I think I can get half of that crap down with no problem. And if my poo runs clear the next morning IF I still am poo'ing....I don't plan to drink the other half at all. I'll just take my HBP meds with a small sip of water and head on out the door. With towels, just in case.

Then again, by monday, I may decide to wait until July.

Still musing on it.

 

[Gracie]

One thing I will say is..this thread may come in handy for someone in my situation later on...their first colonoscopy, and the doubts, questions, fears, etc will all be right 'chere for them to read.

Or not.

 

[percysunshine]

One thing I will say is..this thread may come in handy for someone in my situation later on...their first colonoscopy, and the doubts, questions, fears, etc will all be right 'chere for them to read.

Or not.

Sort of an exercise in mental colonoscopy...

 

[Gracie]

That's one way to think of it.