so i'm getting a godforsaken colonoscopy today. and i'm terrified.
NOBODY i know has ever had one before, so i'm grasping for straws here as i ask kittyradio about it.

experiences?
opinions?

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i know someone who had one. and he's still alive to tell about it.
except that he didn't. tell me about it i mean.
so i really can't help you much but i don't think they're THAT bad?
good luck anyways.

well they're going to stick a camera up my bum, so i'm not excited about that.

but i hear sometimes they sedate people?
i'd love to be sedated for this whole thing.. it'd make it much more bareable.

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Apparently they pretty much always sedate people for colonscopies. Its supposed to be not very comfortable... I know someone who'd had loads because she has Crohn's Disease. Rating of them was not high, but if you need one, you need one. I had an endoscopy (down to the stomach). My doctor told me it would be a tiny tube down my nose to my stomach. She lied. It was a whopping great hosepipe into my stomach and they couldn't sedate me because my blood pressure was too low, so instead they just called in an extra nurse to pin me down!

I have a friend who had a penis-oscopy. Apparently thats so unpleasant you get GENERAL anaesthetic....

My mother has had two of them recently. The first one they found a polyp and they snipped it out of her. They take pictures of your colon and they give you the highlights. The ones they gave my mother were before and after pics of her polyp.

Her second one was done because she started having bloody diarrhea while she was in the hospital being treated for a severe bladder infection. They found an irritated spot in her colon. They decided all she needed was more antibiotics.