Colonoscopy

button2
button2 Member Posts: 421
edited September 2015 in Breast Cancer #1

I know this is off topic, but I'm getting my first colonoscopy tomorrow morning. I'm SO HUNGRY right now and I haven't even started with the infamous cleansing drinks. I'm getting all my CT scans at the end of the month (3 years post BC) and I figured I might as well get this done beforehand. I have a family history on both sides of colon cancer so I feel starting testing at 50 is the least I can do. I'm being such a baby about this though!!! Have a great week ladies...... Hugs, Anna

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  • Desmonds1
    Desmonds1 Member Posts: 54 Member
    #2
    Good luck Aana! Will be

    Good luck Aana! Will be thinking of you

     

  • LindenLea
    LindenLea Member Posts: 22
    #3
    Take it easy when you get

    Take it easy when you get home and rest, no matter how "okay" you feel. Seriously. And drink lots and lots of water. Can't emphasize those two things enough. Lie around and rest while drinking plenty of water. Even if you feel perfectly fine, which you probably will. You need to replenish all of the fluid you have purged from your system during the prep. Good luck.

  • lintx
    lintx Member Posts: 697
    #4
    LindenLea said:

    Take it easy when you get

    Take it easy when you get home and rest, no matter how "okay" you feel. Seriously. And drink lots and lots of water. Can't emphasize those two things enough. Lie around and rest while drinking plenty of water. Even if you feel perfectly fine, which you probably will. You need to replenish all of the fluid you have purged from your system during the prep. Good luck.

    Anna

    The prep is much harder for me than the actual colonoscopy.  I'm sure you'll do well. I'll be thinking about you. Hugs, Linda

  • button2
    button2 Member Posts: 421
    #5
    Thanks so much everyone

    I have heard the the prep is worse than the test! Thanks for the advice about resting and drinking water!!

  • daddy78@54
    daddy78@54 Member Posts: 4
    #6
    Colonscopy

     Button i have done this 4 times in the last 16 yrs both upper endoscopy and colonscopy and the hardest is drinking that fluid i go right back to work or lunch .Good luck on your colonscopy.

  • button2
    button2 Member Posts: 421
    #7
    daddy78@54 said:

    Colonscopy

     Button i have done this 4 times in the last 16 yrs both upper endoscopy and colonscopy and the hardest is drinking that fluid i go right back to work or lunch .Good luck on your colonscopy.

    Thanks daddy

    Drinking the liquid was tough, but I did it and the doctor saw no major problems, so he expects a clear report. Thanks for the support.

  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
    #8
    Just had my 27th colonscopy

    AS OF last month I had my 27th coloscopy-but who's countng?! I have no history of cancer (colon of other) but I have had BC (2008)-but I do have Ulcertive Colitis.

     

    The prep is the pitts and the test is NOT bad-at all.

    As soon as you get the IV put in-you will feel like a whole new person-then they usally knock you out and bingo the test is done..

     

    Best of luck..I'll be thinking of you.

    Denise

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