My Colonoscopy

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Like the PITA it is.

Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Hope everything was OK and nothing found.

Oh, everything "came out" okay, Grumpy.

Like a thundering herd of cattle!

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Hilarious! I will stick with the FIT test, don't think I could handle that prep. You are a brave man.

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Specializes in LTC, Rehab.

Yeah, I'm gonna be imbibing in Govylently myself later in the year. Had a polyp or two 5 years ago, so ...

Maybe I'll get to try that new one, Purge-O-Matic? (Ha ha).

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
I will stick with the FIT test, don't think I could handle that prep. You are a brave man.

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Maybe I'll get to try that new one, Purge-O-Matic? (Ha ha).

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Specializes in ambulant care.

Some physicians use that much compressed air, that the pt runs with jet propulsion for days.:woot:

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

I didn't have to drink the gallon for my last time. It was an 8 ounce bottle of something; one every 15 minutes X 4. I think it was first introduced on Saturday Night Live - "colon blow." I swear the toilet blasts were causing my ear lobes to roll up.

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Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.

I was instructed to dissolve an entire container (I've forgotten the size - 238 g maybe?) of polyethylene glycol in a sports drink. I think I also took a couple dulcolax tablets? Time has drawn a merciful veil. I have a history of polyps and a family history of bowel cancer, so I'm in the 5-year group, too. Fun.

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Unless you had a marginal past study, or family history.....it is now recommend every 10 years,

Since I was adopted as newborn, and at the time had no " gene pool history" they recommended the every five year schedule, which I think I missed 2015....... Ooooops

Wal I never did have a colonoscopy, and it isn't because I didn't want one, because I asked for one. My first so called colonoscopy was a sigmoidoscopy, and it hurt like crazy because the docs don't give you anything to knock you out. The docs were afraid of giving me a colonoscopy.. Silly people. I was braver than any one of them.
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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
We have (used to have) a prep called "Golightly." Seriously it is/was anything but.
Oh I know "Go Lightly" very well. He's a bad actor who makes your tummy and your nether regions not feel so well.
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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Some physicians use that much compressed air, that the pt runs with jet propulsion for days.:woot:

Yes. The nurse was very understanding when I said, "I feel like I'm full of gas!"

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
I didn't have to drink the gallon for my last time. It was an 8 ounce bottle of something; one every 15 minutes X 4. I think it was first introduced on Saturday Night Live - "colon blow." I swear the toilet blasts were causing my ear lobes to roll up.

As Bill Clinton said, "I feel your pain".

And, as Mike Myers said:

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