You know how happy I am to be headed to the hospital right now! Especially in light of my marvelous experience last year at this time...almost to the day.
I'm thinking positive thoughts and appreciate all the prayers I can get!!
See ya when! Posted by lymedesign (Member # 8791) on :
Lymetoo,
I will be thinking of you this morning. The prep for this is the worst part of the procedure. You must have had a rough day yesterday.
Keep us posted at let us know how you made out. Everyone here knows that you are an invaluable asset to this board. Keep smiling!!
Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
Well little darling.. dear droopy drawers...
I guess my job of doing laundry this morning doesn't seem quite as bad now! As a matter of fact.. I think I'll skip all the way to the hamper and sing songs while washing those clothes.
Compared to what YOU have on your agenda today... HEY... I'll do laundry ANY day with no complaints!
I do hope you and your tutu will do very well today. And don't forget to smile for the camera!
Prayers for you dear one... you will be on my mind. Good luck!
Posted by trueblue (Member # 7348) on :
I'm a little late but hope it's all over and went less icky than it could of. (Can't really see it being much better than that. blech!)
I'ma thinking of you and hope is going, or has gone, well.
Posted by lymemomtooo (Member # 5396) on :
Tutu, I have some experience here..good luck..And unless there would be some complication, others are correct, the worst is over. lmt
Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Tutu, I have been where you are headed a couple times. The prep is indeed the far worst part. I always took the time as a free time nap. It always seemed that way to me. They will have you out like a light and never know what they said or did. Akll in all ,,, we just have to set back and wait for the results, glowing I am sure,,, just like you ALWAYS ARE.
By this afternoon later it will be all but a blur memory. BUT,, and thats my big butt,,, we are all sitting on pins and needles waiting for your bright and happy news.
I have been off line for awhile, just floating around and 'trying' to stay cool in 112* heat. ( 120* just a little farther north than we were)
Posted by stella marie (Member # 7216) on :
Originally posted by Tincup: And don't forget to smile for the camera!
That's tutu funny.........
Seriously though....hope it all turns out good in the end
Been there done that, not tutu bad.
Stella Marie
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
Goodluck lymetoo with your test. I know the prep is realy difficult to go threw. I hope you only get good news!
On the up side I have laways felt like a million bucks after the test as the colon is sqeekie clean after the test.
Make sure to drinks lots of extra water and replace your electrolights after the test.
Sending you healing thoughts and prayers Posted by dontlikeliver (Member # 4749) on :
Thinking of you - hope all is going well and it's an uneventful colonoscopy.
Keep us posted.
DLL
Posted by Carol B (Member # 9110) on :
Hey TU TU- hope everything comes out okay.
I'm writing this after i hope you are done and recouperating, as I didn't have such a good experience. Got into a bit of projectile vomiting-IN THE CAR on the way home-that was fun.
Stupid A$$ duck accused me of laxative abuse,too, but test came back negative for that-so then he didn't have a clue as to why my colon was stained or I had chronic you know what.
Gave me a script for you know what and told me to come back in six weeks-so they could repeat the test. Yeah right. That was over six months ago.
Maybe I irritated him just before they put me under when I remarked that I wondered what kind of people could go to work everyday just to look up people's buttholes. Last thing I heard was "knock her out"
Oh well, that was just my experience, hope yours is a bit more innocuous. Good Luck.
Carol
Posted by cantgiveupyet (Member # 8165) on :
Hey Lymetoo,
I was thinking of you today at my Dr appointment, then came home and saw this post.
The receptionist was on the phone with a patients mom talking about her daughters dark stools...she mentioned devertilitis(i know i spelled that one wrong) I heard this and thought of you.
Im sending lots of warm thoughts your way that everything went OK...and the ducks treated you nice. Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Well, everything came OK, and I smiled for the camera! Those droopy drawers came in handy for something!!!!
Dr said nothing about diverticulosis....and I was too foggy to ask. So I guess I don't have it!!
I did have a polyp in the part of the colon where the small intestine meets it....[I think that's where it was.]
Removed it and will biopsy it. Didn't say anything more about it. I'm not overly concerned at this point.
Carol.....I want to talk to you about that laxative abuse!!!! I was told the same thing!!!!! I was rather dumbfounded! I do as many natural things as possible to keep things rolling.
I HAVE had to take laxatives the past 6 wks because I was told to do a LOW fiber diet since fiber stuff would make things worse until my intestinal tract settled down.
Yeah, it settled down allright!
Thank you to everyone for holding my hand. It was greatly appreciated. I know I can always count on my Lymenet family! Posted by lymelighter2 (Member # 6953) on :
Hey lymetoo, There's no feeling like having a garden hose up the old chute if you know what I mean!
Seriously, the prep part is like drinking drano, I always do it with grapefruit juice but then I can't stand grapefruit juice for a few months afterwards.....
but the oh-so-minty-fresh feeling afterwards makes you never want to eat food again.....
Good luck, have a nice nap and let's hope for a "clean" report!!!
Kudos for getting it done, everyone should do it. Now the sigmoid is ruder, because you are actually awake during the process....I can tell you a thing or two about that. Then there's the upper endoscopy that I had without any anesthesia. Gag.......
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
"I smiled for the camera!"
Glad everything came out OK.
Get some rest and drink lots of water and electralights Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
Hey.. just got online especially to check on you and your rear end! Don't you feel special?
But don't tell my family I said that.. they already wonder what I do all day on the computer. No chance I could tell them I'm checking on a tutu, and a rear end... and wanted to know if they both smiled for the camera!
Good to hear you made out well. The prayers must have been heard.
Get some rest dear.
Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
Happy it went well.
My colonoscopy included projectile vomitting the prep about 1:00 am because my body just said no more.
As I was ready to leave the recovery room, I had such a bad spasm that I couldn't move for over an hour. I'm not looking forward to when I have to do this annually.
Posted by Carol B (Member # 9110) on :
LymeTuTu-it's called Melanosis, a staining of the large intestine due to laxative abuse. He told me his suspicions while I was still in recovery, and a bit groggy, and I'm thinking-you just subjected me to a purge that would clean out King Kong for this colonoscopy-and you're accusing ME of laxative abuse.
As I said the test from the biopsy was negative for Melanosis,so no explanation for the staining . He did say he would test me for Celiac, but I really have no desire to go back to him.
Carol
Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
Carol,
Wrong end for a celiac test!!!
Celiac disease is tested with a stomach biopsy -- an endoscopy NOT a colonoscopy.
Bea Seibert
Posted by buggy (Member # 3515) on :
Hey
Remember me? It's been a long time. Sorry you had to go through that. I always watch a movie when I have that done ( funny it always seems to be the same one). I will be praying for a good out come.
buggy (aka) appleseed
Posted by Carol B (Member # 9110) on :
Seibert- I knew he was a gastroenterologist who didn't know which end was up!
He didn't actually tell me how he was going to test for it. And he's never going to have the chance either- because he is history in my book. CB
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Tutu. glad everything went well and they removed your polyp. Have had 2 of these; 1st one they couldn't remove polyp since it was at the end of colon & might rupture colon for ER surgery!
2nd one I had an anesthesiologist put me COMPLETELY under; 1st one I heard everything MD said and I told him so.
Sorry, I was on the road for 2 days to Wisc. allergist specialist so didn't see your post in time BUT glad I got to hear the END results! Rest up now.
Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Yep,,, polyp(I cant spell that word)'s are a normal thing they are looking for, usually non-cancerous beause they get them while they are small. Biopsies usually, mostly, come out fine. Sometimes think they do that mostly for additional revenue. They know at the very moment they take them whether they are bad or not,,,95% of the time.
I say if Katie Couric could do it on national TV,,, cant be all THAT bad!!! I dont know, the 'Versed' I had knocked me out like a light. Easy wake up compared to full anesethia for 'ME'. Doc said I didnt want to be half awake since he said there was more discomfort then. I think they just like there privacy then. I agree with the statement of "Who would go to school that long, to do that every day all day long?" It is quite a profitable venture for them,,, just wait till you get the bill!!! Hope your insurance has deductable paid already!! And covers alot of expense. Like all medical things,,, costs way more than it 'SHOULD'. Specially considering how little time it actually takes. Generally there are others lined up to have same thing before and after you. They get the job done but seems pretty systemetic to me.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Hi Appleseed! We go back a long way, don't we!? Hope you are doing OK...or maybe GREAT??
Carol...I wonder if the dr biopsied that for me as well. Guess WHAT?! Dr C said it COULD be from LYME. Smart man!! [makes sense if the nerves are dying in the gut??]
Hey Don...Dr C said 95% of all colon cancers come from a polyp but 90-95% (?) are benign. I'll go for that!...also...I don't remember a thing...thank goodness!
Thanks again to lymedesign, bea, betty, trueblue, lymemomtoo, stella marie, dana, DLL, can't, lymelighter, aniek,
and Tincup
I'm doing better today but not too happy that Dr Crist I most likely DO have celiac disease. Sigh. At this point I will do anything to get the gut healed.
Thanks
Posted by lymemomtooo (Member # 5396) on :
Tutu, do what you have to do to get and stay well..My mom used to have this done regularly due to polyps but has not done so in years..
Well she is 90..But I think there is now a major complication..So make sure you continue it as they will tell you to do.
Good luck...lymemomtooo
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by lymemomtooo: Tutu, do what you have to do to get and stay well..My mom used to have this done regularly due to polyps but has not done so in years..
My father had colon cancer at the age of 39. We were VERY lucky he survived it as that was before radiation or chemotherapy. [maybe that was a good thing!!] This was in 1956!
So my dr said I was 15 yrs behind on doing the colonoscopy. I imagine I'll have to have them every year now.
Thanks for your input. Hope your mom is OK.
Posted by elley0531 (Member # 9434) on :
glad it went well
I had one done about a month ago, I was put under for it. The prep was awwwwful though.
I'm sure the polyp is benign...and hey, at least you got all cleaned out down there Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by lymelighter2: . Then there's the upper endoscopy that I had without any anesthesia. Gag.......
I had one of those when they checked me for celiac disease 26 yrs ago. I had nothing to sedate me AT ALL, and NO anti-gag stuff...AT ALL!
Now it's a piece of cake! Had one about 3 yrs ago.
Posted by lifeline (Member # 3445) on :
Hi tutu,
Speaking of Melanosis, I have that due to laxative abuse as I had used Cascara. Anyway, that's what my gastro told me. It is a benign condition and does not cause a problem, just that it makes your colon dark, in my case, somewhat spotted dark brown or black.
When I first went to him (my husband gets regular colonoscopies due to his prostate cancer and had been after me to get one), due to constipation and I told him I was using something with Cascara Sagrada, he told me to stop using that as it is difficult to get off of.
After my colonoscopy, no polyps, normal colonoscopy, except for spotted melanosis, and due to my now "laxative dependent" colon, he Rx'ed Miralax which is toooooooo wonderful. He said you can use it whenever, as it is just a glorified stool softener, and I now am regular. Wonderful feeling!
So, as far as I know, melanosis is a benign condition, and the colon may or may not again be the normal color, but for me, I won't be having another colonoscopy for 10 years!
Glad yours turned out good.
lifeline
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Thanks Pat! I did some reading and found that cascara is NOT Ok....I thought it was. It was an ingredient in a fiber product I was using.
Dr C said the darkening could also be from LYME. Not surprising!
So I'm not going to take the cascara anymore. True laxative abuse CAN kill out the nerves in the colon and make it just about useless. Not good!
Thanks for the tip about the Miralex. Hadn't heard of it.
Will get the biopsy report Monday.
Hope you're doing well, Pat!! Posted by lymemomtooo (Member # 5396) on :
Tutu, hope all is well..lymemomtooo
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
The polyp was OK! Gotta have another colonoscopy next year.
Thanks for asking!
Posted by lifeline (Member # 3445) on :
Hi Tutu,
Good for you! Celebrate, you deserve it!
lifeline
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Hey Pat....slippery elm works too!
And my dr didn't think cascara was a problem....staying away from it anyway since I found out the fiber product I was using contained barley.
Thanks for the congrats!!
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
my niece's boss today was telling me that her sister decided to have a colonoscopy while here in Iowa since this sisterhad CANCER caught by the colonoscopy.
Her out of state insurance okd it, and this sister had taken the 24 hr. prep..YUK! Then the sirgeon's Rn called her boss trying to locate the sister since she was here "caregiving" for sister who has the colon cancer.
RN told her the insurance company would NOT pay for this $5,000 procedure. If she has it done, she is to pay it all. This sister doesn't have any symptoms, but when she was 7 had COLON SUGERY TO REMOVE POLYPS.
Can you believe all the nausea/runs she went thru to be told....we won't pay for this lifesaving measure for you! uffda.
Tuto, best wishes for a clean bill of health next Monday. They are keeping an eye out on you; 1 yr. to repeat this.
Posted by Lymeindunkirk (Member # 7118) on :
Have any of you had your GI symptoms completely disappear after having a colonoscopy that was fine?
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
No, but my gluten free diet has been helping me tremendously!!! I'm so happy about it!!
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lymetoo: The polyp was OK! Gotta have another colonoscopy next year.
Thanks for asking!
Iam glad your okay Posted by AZURE WISH (Member # 804) on :
Glad to hear evrything came out ok
I had a colonoscopy done in the beggining of the year. So glad they use anesthia - I was told years ago you was awake for the whole procedure -
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