Colonoscopy

Nightmare Walking said:
Well that depends on what you are having it done for. If you have active Crohns like me then it can be pretty damn painful.
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That's a fucker but purely on an exploratory basis it's made as comfortable as possible.
( not trying to demean your discomfort/condition in anyway.)
 
I watched the screen during mine. I've always wanted to know what my insides look like and that was the only chance I had, so I took it.
 
MacD said:
Never watch the screen - it’s a golden rule of mine
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It was right front of my face though. I could see nothing else.

I forgot to add that the worst thing of the whole process was having a prostate exam by a consultant who had the fattest fingers imaginable.
 
I had this and watched it on a screen by the bed.

It was more interesting than most TV programmes.
 
Big Swifty said:
I had this and watched it on a screen by the bed.

It was more interesting than most TV programmes.
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7evens said:
I'll never forget the taste of Moviprep. It's like someone took flat lemonade and left it out in the sun for three weeks, extracted everything people enjoy from flat lemonade (which isn't much to begin with) and then put a drop of piss in it. Hideous stuff that I hope I never have to drink again.
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Mate, is that same as Laxido, which I have been told to now take three times a day by the doc for potentially ages? I don't mind the orange taste and certainly helps keep things regular.

He says nothing harmful or medicinal in it, just flushing my system with more water?

Been three times now last six months with various constipation symptoms and irregular bowel habits, but after a blood test for my liver and thyroid, other inflammation markers, the GP just said I have classic IBS symptoms and if it were bowel cancer, I'd be dead by now.

Not very reassuring.

I was planning to ask for a scan before he said the blood tests, although not directly looking for bowel cancer, would rule out things like Chrones and other red flags.

Also bad heartburn but again just dismissed me with Ozemaprol or something like that.

Don't even have to eat much to be needing it or necking Gaviscon.

Now that I am partial too!
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Mate, is that same as Laxido, which I have been told to now take three times a day by the doc for potentially ages? I don't mind the orange taste and certainly helps keep things regular.

He says nothing harmful or medicinal in it, just flushing my system with more water?

Been three times now last six months with various constipation symptoms and irregular bowel habits, but after a blood test for my liver and thyroid, other inflammation markers, the GP just said I have classic IBS symptoms and if it were bowel cancer, I'd be dead by now.

Not very reassuring.

I was planning to ask for a scan before he said the blood tests, although not directly looking for bowel cancer, would rule out things like Chrones and other red flags.

Also bad heartburn but again just dismissed me with Ozemaprol or something like that.

Don't even have to eat much to be needing it or necking Gaviscon.

Now that I am partial too!
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I struggle with bowel problems that give me the opposite problems to you - I've got unresolved complications from an autoimmune disease (coeliacs) that mean I have to eat specific things and take certain medications in order to not shit a 4/5 times a day, haha. And they say we have a divine creator, eh? But with being so ill, I've educated myself on probiotics, medications, and the frontier science that's currently taking place.

Honestly, with regards to IBS-C, your route for experimentation may well be in trialling probiotics like Symprove and VSL#3. They're pricey but can make a difference for some people. Do some research into the human microbiome. This is the place to start looking for medications and studies https://www.reddit.com/r/HumanMicrobiome/wiki/index - and get to know as much about it as you can. For now, maybe trial some pleasant over the counter probiotics like BioKult, Yakult, fermented yoghurts. If none of them make a difference then you can move on to the pricier, scientifically analysed stuff.

I'd also look into seeing if you can be prescribed products like Linzess or magnesium tablets for it. Movicol is another laxative brand to try. Moviprep is essentially an industrial strength laxative that you can't easily get hold of over the counter like you can with Laxido. A friend of mine takes Laxido, which is full of all sorts of things to make it taste nice, but with Moviprep they honestly don't give a fuck about the taste. It's designed to completely flush a person out ahead of an invasive medical procedure as opposed to making sure they can get through the day comfortably so things like taste and tolerance don't really factor into their thinking. I can't get the taste out of my memory even now, and the memory of how it tasted sits in the top of my throat whenever I think about it.

They're just about beginning to develop the science around this condition so the best we can do for now is go through a trial and error process until we each find something that works for us. Try removing certain known triggers of IBS-C (bread and high carbs, for example) for a while, try some probiotics, and eventually you'll find something that, one day, makes things a little easier. Until the day we're all rounded up by doctors and given a cocktail of pills that can cure gastrointestinal complications, all we can do is plough on and hope each visit to the porcelain throne is less painful than the last.

Also, get yourself tested for SIBO (small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth). They don't make a song and dance about it but you can get it done on the NHS now - I had myself tested at Salford Royal and it took about two hours. It came back negative but it's a process of elimination with bowel problems. Also, I'd recommend this YouTube series from a girl called Becky who struggles with IBS-C and took Symprove for 12 weeks to see what difference it made. She was eventually diagnosed with SIBO.

 
7evens said:
I struggle with bowel problems that give me the opposite problems to you - I've got unresolved complications from an autoimmune disease (coeliacs) that mean I have to eat specific things and take certain medications in order to not shit a 4/5 times a day, haha. And they say we have a divine creator, eh? But with being so ill, I've educated myself on probiotics, medications, and the frontier science that's currently taking place.

Honestly, with regards to IBS-C, your route for experimentation may well be in trialling probiotics like Symprove and VSL#3. They're pricey but can make a difference for some people. Do some research into the human microbiome. This is the place to start looking for medications and studies https://www.reddit.com/r/HumanMicrobiome/wiki/index - and get to know as much about it as you can. For now, maybe trial some pleasant over the counter probiotics like BioKult, Yakult, fermented yoghurts. If none of them make a difference then you can move on to the pricier, scientifically analysed stuff.

I'd also look into seeing if you can be prescribed products like Linzess or magnesium tablets for it. Movicol is another laxative brand to try. Moviprep is essentially an industrial strength laxative that you can't easily get hold of over the counter like you can with Laxido. A friend of mine takes Laxido, which is full of all sorts of things to make it taste nice, but with Moviprep they honestly don't give a fuck about the taste. It's designed to completely flush a person out ahead of an invasive medical procedure as opposed to making sure they can get through the day comfortably so things like taste and tolerance don't really factor into their thinking. I can't get the taste out of my memory even now, and the memory of how it tasted sits in the top of my throat whenever I think about it.

They're just about beginning to develop the science around this condition so the best we can do for now is go through a trial and error process until we each find something that works for us. Try removing certain known triggers of IBS-C (bread and high carbs, for example) for a while, try some probiotics, and eventually you'll find something that, one day, makes things a little easier. Until the day we're all rounded up by doctors and given a cocktail of pills that can cure gastrointestinal complications, all we can do is plough on and hope each visit to the porcelain throne is less painful than the last.

Also, get yourself tested for SIBO (small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth). They don't make a song and dance about it but you can get it done on the NHS now - I had myself tested at Salford Royal and it took about two hours. It came back negative but it's a process of elimination with bowel problems. Also, I'd recommend this YouTube series from a girl called Becky who struggles with IBS-C and took Symprove for 12 weeks to see what difference it made. She was eventually diagnosed with SIBO.

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Thanks pal, all appreciate that.

Have already cut out stuff like onions. Seems counter-intuitive to cut out fibre when you want to cure bouts of constipation, eh!
 
Just got back from my annual exam with my very hot Dr. She gave me the shocker, then as I was starting to get a chubber I asked her to check the old nut sack out which she dutifully did. I might book another appointment for tomorrow
 
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