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I had one last week on the five year plan.  They found one 3mm non-precancerous polyp and said to come back in 5 years.  5 years ago, they found one, precancerous 5mm polyp.  So this is an improvement. 

 

The prep still sucks.  But putting a package of crystal light lemonade mix in the jug made it much more tolerable.  And a bidet is an absolute must.

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Cologuard detect 90% of cancer.  So the good news is you save some money and miss the procedure - and the bad news is you’ll die of metastasized cancer of the 10% variety
Edit: did not see new doc before I posted.   I would also not do 10 years between colonoscopies nor would I wait till 50 to get my first one.    Like doc said, people get the cancer more frequently in earlier than they used to, so the standard of care as to frequency of procedure is probably off

The SOC changed from 50 to 45 without family history of cancer a few years ago. My doc told me about this change during treatment because I was dx’d at 40. So probably 2017-18-ish.
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Get a colonoscopy. If you have any issues of upper GI issues get an upper at the same time. Dont be a pussy. Or an idiot. Find a gastroenterologist and schedule it.

My son is cursed with a poor genetic history with this cancer and it took me pushing his wife to push him to start at 35. He had some polyps and is on a 3 year plan.

I called an old friend a couple years ago I had lost touch with. He was not doing well as he was late stage IV colon cancer that had spread into his spine. He was starting a final Hail Mary trial which he knew he was a guinea pig for. And why was he dying? “I was scared of it; the whole thing. And there’s nothing to it so I feel like a fool. I won’t see my grandkids grow up.”

Think about that. See a gastro. Don’t shit in a box.

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Starting my colonoscopy prep this morning for the procedure tomorrow. First timer.  I went ahead and scheduled an endoscopy at the same time. I’ve always had acid reflux and had an endoscopy 7 years ago and everything was fine. Just thinking 2 birds, one stone here. 
Chicken broth and ensure clear for breakfast!  I take the bowl prep at 5 pm. 🤞

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2 hours ago, Borachio said:

Starting my colonoscopy prep this morning for the procedure tomorrow. First timer.  I went ahead and scheduled an endoscopy at the same time. I’ve always had acid reflux and had an endoscopy 7 years ago and everything was fine. Just thinking 2 birds, one stone here. 
Chicken broth and ensure clear for breakfast!  I take the bowl prep at 5 pm. 🤞

Do they put you out for an endoscopy? 

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Not as bad as I thought it would be. Endoscopy results looked good. Had two benign polyps removed during the colonoscopy portion. Everything looked fine. 
 

Peed out of my butt for a few hours last night and again for a few hours this morning after the second round of bowel prep. Propofol had me sleeping like a baby during the procedure. Had a big lunch afterwards. 
 

I’d almost do it again just for funsies!  46 years old. I’d encourage everyone to get the screening done earlier rather than later. 

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45 here and need to get one. My wife had hers recently due to family history and I drove her. Im sitting in the big recovery room waiting for her to wake up, surrounded by a cacophony of medical grade circus farts. I’m talking extended, ranging tonal triumphs. Symphonic. Makes me laugh every time I think about it.

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19 hours ago, Borachio said:

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Endoscopy results looked good. Had two benign polyps removed during the colonoscopy portion. Everything looked fine. 
 

Peed out of my butt for a few hours last night and again for a few hours this morning after the second round of bowel prep. Propofol had me sleeping like a baby during the procedure. Had a big lunch afterwards. 
 

I’d almost do it again just for funsies!  46 years old. I’d encourage everyone to get the screening done earlier rather than later. 

Was there anything that prompted the endoscopy or was it preventative like the colonoscopy?  

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9 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Was there anything that prompted the endoscopy or was it preventative like the colonoscopy?  

Just preventative. I have had acid reflux since my 20’s. I take omeprazole to control it and it does a great job. I had a preventative endoscopy 7 years ago and it was fine. I was due for my first preventative colonoscopy at 46. Even though my Dr didn’t recommend getting a second endoscopy this soon, I thought I might as well get it done anyway, since he would be doing the colonoscopy

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Had my first colonoscopy at the end of last month (I'm 50, the pandemic caused my preventative medical care kind fall off). As a whole it was pretty easy.

I gotta say my meds / prep were a lot different than what I am reading here.

PREP - In terms of doing prep, they gave me a week of a low fiber diet (lot of white bread, white pasta, and chicken). It made the clean out pretty easy. It was all over the counter stuff a gallon of G2 and a months supply Miralax split in 2 doses 24 and 6 hours before the procedure.

Procedure - Fentanyl only. I didn't even sleep!!! Everyone promised me the best sleep of my life! I was awake the whole time!!! I got to watch on the video screen of the doctor cutting out my polyps. I did nap just a bit afterwards.

6 polyps - all benign. I got back in 3 years.

 

Get it done guys, even though I didn't get any great sleep, this was super easy.

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15 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

 

Procedure - Fentanyl only. I didn't even sleep!!! Everyone promised me the best sleep of my life! I was awake the whole time!!! I got to watch on the video screen of the doctor cutting out my polyps. I did nap just a bit afterwards

 

did you go to a real dr ????

 

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13 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Procedure - Fentanyl only. I didn't even sleep!!! Everyone promised me the best sleep of my life! I was awake the whole time!!! I got to watch on the video screen of the doctor cutting out my polyps. I did nap just a bit afterwards.

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Appreciate the heads up.. never heard of that... anyone booking one needs to clarify that they want and are getting propofol full sedation. 

 

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On 3/26/2024 at 7:18 PM, StassneyHorn said:

My dad had a colonoscopy at the beginning of the year. 7 polyps, all benign. His dumbass did drink coffee afterwards and it triggered some fucked up gall bladder/ gall stones issue and had to have emergency surgery to remove it. His gall bladder ended up bursting during the surgery and we all got pretty lucky that he’s still alive. 
 

So get rid of your gall bladder the first second you can.

This didn’t age well. 3 catheters in like a month and the prostate cancer diagnosis today. I’ve done all the necessary google requirements to become an expert in it and can say this is much better than ass cancer.

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I'm up Tuesday. I'm planning on not following the clear liquid diet per the statnews articles and cited studies. Anybody try this? "I've never seen a piece of chicken" sold me. I'll probably have chicken soup, with chicken at least. 

They are also being bitchasses about driving. They are including in their text manifesto that my driver must remain on the premises (their word) the entire procedure. Can they really hold me to that? I have a friend who is willing to pick me up and lives 10 minutes away. I'm getting dropped off by my wife. She has to take our kid to an appointment and took the morning off so she could do both. People have lives. I'm not going to ask my buddy to sit in a waiting room for 3 hours. That's absurd. 

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13 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

I'm up Tuesday. I'm planning on not following the clear liquid diet per the statnews articles and cited studies. Anybody try this? "I've never seen a piece of chicken" sold me. I'll probably have chicken soup, with chicken at least. 

They are also being bitchasses about driving. They are including in their text manifesto that my driver must remain on the premises (their word) the entire procedure. Can they really hold me to that? I have a friend who is willing to pick me up and lives 10 minutes away. I'm getting dropped off by my wife. She has to take our kid to an appointment and took the morning off so she could do both. People have lives. I'm not going to ask my buddy to sit in a waiting room for 3 hours. That's absurd. 

They aren't being bitchasses about driving. They basically will be letting a drunk driver out on the road.

And yes they will hold you to not being able to leave, they basically will walk you to your car and put you in the passenger seat.

You shouldn't need your buddy in the waiting room - they should be able to call him 30 minutes out to come and get you.

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14 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

I'm up Tuesday. I'm planning on not following the clear liquid diet per the statnews articles and cited studies. Anybody try this? "I've never seen a piece of chicken" sold me. I'll probably have chicken soup, with chicken at least. 

They are also being bitchasses about driving. They are including in their text manifesto that my driver must remain on the premises (their word) the entire procedure. Can they really hold me to that? I have a friend who is willing to pick me up and lives 10 minutes away. I'm getting dropped off by my wife. She has to take our kid to an appointment and took the morning off so she could do both. People have lives. I'm not going to ask my buddy to sit in a waiting room for 3 hours. That's absurd. 

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On 9/11/2024 at 11:33 AM, MonkeyDoughnut said:

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Appreciate the heads up.. never heard of that... anyone booking one needs to clarify that they want and are getting propofol full sedation. 

 

I posted this story up thread, about how my SiL showed up for her procedure on time, but the anesthesiologist did not. She was given fentanyl, too, and had to ask for more of it during the procedure.

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15 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

I'm up Tuesday. I'm planning on not following the clear liquid diet per the statnews articles and cited studies. Anybody try this? "I've never seen a piece of chicken" sold me. I'll probably have chicken soup, with chicken at least. 

This is seriously dumbass thinking. Why the fuck would you take the chance? One speck of something and the gastroenterologist terminates the procedure and you have to do it all over again. The clear liquid diet is nothing. Just do it and follow the instructions like an adult and treat yourself to whatever you want to eat when it’s done.

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1 hour ago, royiv said:

This is seriously dumbass thinking. Why the fuck would you take the chance? One speck of something and the gastroenterologist terminates the procedure and you have to do it all over again. The clear liquid diet is nothing. Just do it and follow the instructions like an adult and treat yourself to whatever you want to eat when it’s done.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34471982/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23531424/

I think it will be fine. 

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16 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

I'm up Tuesday. I'm planning on not following the clear liquid diet per the statnews articles and cited studies. Anybody try this? "I've never seen a piece of chicken" sold me. I'll probably have chicken soup, with chicken at least. 

They are also being bitchasses about driving. They are including in their text manifesto that my driver must remain on the premises (their word) the entire procedure. Can they really hold me to that? I have a friend who is willing to pick me up and lives 10 minutes away. I'm getting dropped off by my wife. She has to take our kid to an appointment and took the morning off so she could do both. People have lives. I'm not going to ask my buddy to sit in a waiting room for 3 hours. That's absurd. 

I just had a coloscopy and it was probably 3 hours from the time of check-in to the time of departure. So don't promise your buddy it'll be 2 hours because you'll want to err on the high side. Also instead of just telling me I was good to go after I recovered from the procedure, they brought my wife back to the prep area, gave her instructions, etc and verified she was my driver. 

There are services you can hire to drive and wait for you if you need 'em.  "driving services for medical appointments"

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36 minutes ago, Baboontyme said:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34471982/

I think it will be fine. 

"Scientific" studies that use "meta analysis" are frequently complete bullshit because they rely on all the component studies being well-designed with zero bias in selecting them for inclusion, and this one is done by a bunch of dudes all affiliated with the same hospital in Argentina, which should raise a lot of red flags.  

Did you incorporate that fact into your decision-making?

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18 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

I'm up Tuesday. I'm planning on not following the clear liquid diet per the statnews articles and cited studies. Anybody try this? "I've never seen a piece of chicken" sold me. I'll probably have chicken soup, with chicken at least. 

They are also being bitchasses about driving. They are including in their text manifesto that my driver must remain on the premises (their word) the entire procedure. Can they really hold me to that? I have a friend who is willing to pick me up and lives 10 minutes away. I'm getting dropped off by my wife. She has to take our kid to an appointment and took the morning off so she could do both. People have lives. I'm not going to ask my buddy to sit in a waiting room for 3 hours. That's absurd. 

1. Do the damn prep.  It's not that bad, and it will give you a great cleaning out, which isn't a bad thing. But most importantly is you want to do the fasting and prep just this one time, and if you don't do the prep completely and as prescribed, odds are you'll have to try again.  

2. I would STRONGLY recommend that if you don't have a handheld shower head, make the nominal investment and get one.  Why?  Because if you do a complete wiping after every trip to the toilet, you are going to be raw as hell down there and very well could give yourself a hemorrhoid if you get to wiping too much.  So my advice is just a superficial wipe or patting, and then finish off in the shower with the handheld.  Your butt will thank you.

3. Use gatorade, not powerade.  Trust me on this.  It makes a difference.  And don't use red, do green or clear.  The red could lead to the doctor seeing something that's not an actual issue.  

4. The insistence on you having a driver is legit.  Why? Because the best part of the colonscopy is the drugs.  And you're still going to be a tad loopy when they release you (not real loopy, just a pleasant little relaxed high, but also just a little disoriented).  When you wake up from the procedure, you will have felt like you just had the best 8-hr sleep you've had in a long time.  It's awesome.

5.  The second best part of the colonoscopy is the next meal.  You are relaxed, cleaned out, and a little hungry.  I would go for either a big ass breakfast or a greasy cheeseburger.  

 

That's my advice.  Just do it as prescribed.  Get you a book because you'll be in there awhile, and seriously consider getting a handheld shower head for the cleaning (unless you are a rich fuck who owns a bidet...then problem solved).

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On 9/11/2024 at 11:33 AM, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Appreciate the heads up.. never heard of that... anyone booking one needs to clarify that they want and are getting propofol full sedation. 

Before I switched practices I did about 1000 colonoscopies. I only had one guy decline the propofol. I was like “suit yourself”. A little Versed made sure he didn’t remember much of it anyway. 

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