Posted: 11/23/2007 7:28:28 PM EDT
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I'm getting one Monday. While I'm there, I'm getting the same treatment down the throat, as far as they can go.  I think while I'm in pre-op, I'm going to ask if they use the same camera for both, and if so, could they do the throat route first... Just thought I'd share.  It's one of the more "upbeat" things I could come up with. 
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Ask the anesthesiologist to go easy pumping the drugs in. I had good one for my gut-o-scope but the guy feeding the stuff for my ass-o-scope must have had a tee time. That shit hurt the most of all. Good luck. |
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The ironic thing is I actually volunteered for the throat/stomach/etc. part of the procedure. The doctor showed me the colon and what he was going to do and I said is that it? What if you don't find the problem? He said well, if you want... I figured what the hell. I was already going to be there, and I want the problem solved so I said do both. I want to find the problem or rule it out. I didn't ask many questions. I told him the less I knew the more likely I'd be to show up.  Now I'm a little nervous about the whole thing. I just hate medical shit. No pun intended. And it keeps coming in stranger and grosser procedures. |
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My wife had both done, but at different times. Neither procedure was really that big a deal. They do knock your ass out (pun intended) for the Endoscopy. You'll be pretty woozy afterward so you're going to need someone to drive you home. I have to laugh when I think back to the recovery room after the colonscopy. I'm sitting there holding my wife's hand as she and 6-7 other patients in the room keep farting as they come to. They were all in their own little curtained off areas, but the noise was pretty fierce!! |
Well don't worry about it, you get the same butt camera as the guy before you. Don't know if they use the butt camera for the throat camera though. Hope things go well for you and everything turns out alright! 
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+1 Had my first one this year, at 37. They found a polyp, so it wasn't all fun for nothing. Of course, this means I get to go back every 3 years from now on...
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The camera's are different sizes.....about the diameter of a magic-marker for the top end. The numbing spray that's used is the worst-tasting shit known to man. And, about the diameter of a garden hose for the bottom end.  Trust me I know....did these kinds of surgical cases for about ten years before I got smart and changed specialties.  Good luck...Hope everything goes well for ya. JOHN |
That is some really good dope they used on me...  Didn't feel a thing, woke up ready to party like an animal for 8 hours afterward. MY Butt was NOT sore. Before I got the " good drugs ", the anesthesiologist had me sign a sheet, that I would not drive / operate machinery, or buy a new car for 24 hours. |
| I drove my dad home from one, since the doctor said he wouldn't really be in any shape to drive from the anesthesia. Dad said it wasn't no big deal, lie down, go to sleep, wake up and they're done. I think I sat around in the lounge for about an hour and we were outta there. |
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Good luck buddy. Just be glad you dont have walleye-vision only one cure for that: "Well, there's a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they've got to go in through the rectum. Ain't no man going to take that route with me!" |
I never needed any encouragement to fart. What is funny is that you are so cleaned out that the farts are pure compressed air, and with the K-Y up your butt you make the sloppy sound like you shit yourself. The prep is indeed the only bad part. Make sure you have a early AM procedure so you don't have to sit NPO for the morning. I am hypoglycemic and just the time without food is an issue for me. There is a pill prep now that is much easier to take than polyethylene glycol. You take the first rounds of pills with water and the last one with Ginger Ale. When the Ginger ale goes down it sets off a reaction like the baking soda and vinegar volcanos you used to make in school science projects. It'll blow you off the toilet. The best part is when the procedure is over and you go to the closest IHOP for the bigest breakfast they have. Mmmmmm. |
| I had the scope down the throat summer of 06. I asked just be for the knocked me out if they used the same camera for the both. The Doc said (joking) no but if we wanted to save some time and i wanted a colon check we could do it all at the same time,, no thanks. |
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I had to have one about a month ago, age 19, because I was bleeding somewhere and they didn't know where (turns out I have ulcerative colitis). Lemme tell you what you're in for. The prep is, to be honest, the worse part. The crap they give you is awful. If they give you Fleet Phospho-Soda, make sure you can dilute it with PLENTY of a clear fluid (ginger ale works best). I had to have one diluted with only a half-cup of water. Imagine eating a teaspoon of salt and magnify that by a hundred for what it tasted like. It will soon hurt like bad gas. Do not stray far from the toilet. If you're lucky enough to be at home and not in a hospital, have your laptop and wireless internet, some books if you like to read... you WILL spend a lot of time on the toilet. What comes out will eventually be disturbingly yellow and/or green. Protip: you don't have to wipe much. Wait until you're done with a salvo, and only use a few squares of paper. It's mostly water anyway. It'll hurt less if you wipe less; even the softest toilet paper chafes eventually. You will have to take your clothes off and get into a gown, most likely. Don't worry, they've seen everything a million times before. They'll probably put an IV in you. If you're squeamish about needles, just don't look and it won't hurt. They'll probably also connect you to a 3-lead EKG (and the pads will hurt when they pull them off if you have any hair at all on your chest), a pulse-oximeter which clamps to your finger and you barely feel, and oxygen on a nasal cannula which smells disgustingly plasticky. They will then put some very happy drugs in your IV. VERY happy drugs indeed. Afterwards, you'll be hard-pressed to remember a damn thing that happened during the procedure. Try not to confuse it with an abduction and probing. If you're lucky, they will spray your throat with a numbing agent. If you're not, they'll simply put the bite-guard in your mouth (kinda a ball gag with a hole for the scope) and down the hatch the scope will go. You'll feel like you have to swallow, and swallowing hurts. They'll pump you full of air so they can see, so you'll have to keep burping, and burping hurts. The tube's very presence hurts, and you'll be so doped up you won't know why they're doing this to you. Upper endoscopies are no fun at all. Then, they pull out, switch scopes, lube you up, and it's up the pooper for you. Colonoscopies are really no big deal. You don't really feel anything, except the occasional disconcerting internal movement. Plus, if you're lucid enough to watch the screen, it's kind of cool to see. Although it is weird when they pull out and, for a split second, you see your bunghole at twenty times actual size. They'll put you in a room for a while for the drugs to wear off, and you might not be allowed to drive yourself home afterwards. Anyway, in that room, since they pumped you full of air, you'll have to fart. Hopefully, all the liquid poop is out of you, 'cause otherwise I can see where it'd get messy. They'll probably come out to talk to you about anything they found or didn't find. And that's it. Edit: It actually hurt a lot more when an ER doc put a finger up me to get a stool smear for a hemoccult test. Also, I guarantee they've all heard any joke you can come up with 99,000 times before. |
| I've done it twice, no let me rephrase that, I've had it done to me twice. The prep is all that's bad. If you had a couple of good shooting/flying/drinking buddies that were getting the same thing done at the same time, it would be a real hoot to all sit in a multi-hole shit house and have some company for the prep. It would be good for some laughs and certainly better than going solo. |
Had one done a month ago and the pill route is the easiest prep I've been through so far. I remember "turn on your side" and then everyone laughing at me as I woke up in recovery. My wife said I answered every question the nurse or doctor ask me with "yes officer" as I was waking up.  The peace of mind is worth the hassle for a clean bill of health. |
Try changing your avatar. That will keep you from requiring these new and exciting procedures. |