Well, I survived

[gsabc]

Still very out of it, some six hours later. The good news - no polyps in my left colon. The bad news - there was STILL feces in the right colon which the doctor couldn't get past. So now I need ANOTHER colonoscopy, this time with the gallon of Golytely for a real flushing. Why they just didn't go that route this time, I simply don't understand. I hope my medical insurance will still pick up the tab. They wanted to schedule it in three months, but that's not gonna happen. Sometime in September, folks.

GW was both pissed and in tears. She was a lot more worried about the procedure than I was. Her doctor when she was a kid was an asshole, so she dislikes the medical profession in general. All she dwelled on was the possible problems that can occur. Between an ailing mother, an ailing dog, and now an ailing (albeit temporarily so) husband, on top of the wedding stuff, she's mega-stressed.

Meanwhile, she's off to visit her mother and family tomorrow AM. Needs to see what she can do to get Mom into an assisted living place, or at least aid in getting some outside help to come in a couple of times a week. I hope the weather is good all around. She'll lose it if she's stuck somewhere for any length of time.

[kayrharris]

Well, the good news part is good. The bad news part about re-doing not so much. Take it easy and feel better soon.

Good travel vibes to your bride. Hope everything goes well both while traveling and handling her mom. Maybe you could have a nice bouquet of flowers waiting for her when she gets home. Just a thought. Nothing expensive, you can get some nice ones at the grocery store these days.

[silvercamaro]

Glad to hear that you're back with us, even if it takes a bit longer to shake off the rest of the grogginess. Hurray for the good news half of the report. I'm sorry you'll have to face the procedure again so soon.

[geoffil]

Glad you got good news.

[Bob Juch]

I'd say I'm glad everything came out alright, but I guess it didn't.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I am sorry that you will have to go thorugh all of this again.

[mellytu74]

glad that there's some good news.

Hugs to GW for everything she's going through.

[ghostjmf]

Golightly (or however they spell it) ain't so bad. It is not good, & it is not even neutral, but compared to the Fleet stuff, isn't bad. I haven't had the stuff dissolved in Crystal Light you were talking about this time, so can't compare with that. (I personally think they should go away from associating this kind of stuff with any flavor; the Fleet stuff I had was supposedly lemon-lime, & I couldn't drink Sprite for years after.)

Basically, the Fleet stuff gave me, as well as the nausea from the taste, intense stomach cramps. The kind you'd take medicine for except you aren't supposed to be taking any medicine before the procedure.

Golightly, when it eventually works, is just like having a surprise case of the runs, but without stomach pains (at least for me) every 5 to 10 minutes. Getting all of it down is the hard part. Actually, according to the instructions that come with it, you don't have to get down all of it, just about 5/6ths of it. Which is what I did after I read the bottle.

[ghostjmf]

Oh yeah: The reason they don't go the Golightly routine at 1st is its generally used with a more complete procedure. Meaning they look at more of the colon, but to do that they have to have you lightly sedated. Meaning you have to have someone scheduled to come pick you up after, or they won't do the procedure. And this procedure costs your insurance more. Of course, having to to do almost the same procedure 3 times costs your insurance way more, total, but the idiots deciding to cut corners on medical procedures always to forget to add such data points in.

Physician friend of mine says the more-complete procedure is the better way to go, if ever you get to choose; they had one, as part of a test group, even though they'd already passed the shorter procedure with flying colors a few months earlier. Longer procedure found something. In its earliest stages.

I was violently ill for hours after the Fleet episode, but of course the hospital didn't care, because I had not been sedated for it by them. After the Golightly episode I felt fine, certainly fine enough to have taken a cab or subway, but of course I had to have someone lined up to chauffer me home or they wouldn't have done the procedure, because they had sedated me.

[peacock2121]

Hooray you have one clean side!

Sorry you are dealing with GW's history about doctors. Too bad she can't put that in the past where it belongs.

I think you will only have to do 24 hours of no solid food with the GoLitley. So it won't be as unsettling.

The buring question:


How full of shit were you?

[earendel]

Still very out of it, some six hours later. The good news - no polyps in my left colon. The bad news - there was STILL feces in the right colon which the doctor couldn't get past. So now I need ANOTHER colonoscopy, this time with the gallon of Golytely for a real flushing. Why they just didn't go that route this time, I simply don't understand. I hope my medical insurance will still pick up the tab. They wanted to schedule it in three months, but that's not gonna happen. Sometime in September, folks.

GW was both pissed and in tears. She was a lot more worried about the procedure than I was. Her doctor when she was a kid was an asshole, so she dislikes the medical profession in general. All she dwelled on was the possible problems that can occur. Between an ailing mother, an ailing dog, and now an ailing (albeit temporarily so) husband, on top of the wedding stuff, she's mega-stressed.

Meanwhile, she's off to visit her mother and family tomorrow AM. Needs to see what she can do to get Mom into an assisted living place, or at least aid in getting some outside help to come in a couple of times a week. I hope the weather is good all around. She'll lose it if she's stuck somewhere for any length of time.

So I guess that you'll be once again waiting for clarity in your output.

[gsabc]

Oh yeah: The reason they don't go the Golightly routine at 1st is its generally used with a more complete procedure. Meaning they look at more of the colon, but to do that they have to have you lightly sedated. Meaning you have to have someone scheduled to come pick you up after, or they won't do the procedure. And this procedure costs your insurance more. Of course, having to to do almost the same procedure 3 times costs your insurance way more, total, but the idiots deciding to cut corners on medical procedures always to forget to add such data points in.

Physician friend of mine says the more-complete procedure is the better way to go, if ever you get to choose; they had one, as part of a test group, even though they'd already passed the shorter procedure with flying colors a few months earlier. Longer procedure found something. In its earliest stages.

I was violently ill for hours after the Fleet episode, but of course the hospital didn't care, because I had not been sedated for it by them. After the Golightly episode I felt fine, certainly fine enough to have taken a cab or subway, but of course I had to have someone lined up to chauffer me home or they wouldn't have done the procedure, because they had sedated me.

This WAS the more complete procedure. Colonoscopy is the whole nine yards, so to speak, all the way to the upper intesting. The sigmoidoscopy is the partial, only doing the lower areas. I did that about 8 years ago at a different HMO, with a limited diet (no red meat and no broccoli are the most memorable parts, with the Fleet bit just before).

What bugs me, and bugs GW more, is that they only increased the days on the regular prep diet this time (7 vs. 5 on the no fiber, and 2 vs. 1 on the clear liquid), instead of going straight to the super-flush stuff. Cheese was on the diet, but this doc said that cheese can cause the blockage he saw. So why allow cheese in the first place?

Anyone who now talks about "cutting the cheese" is on my shit list.

[Mayor McCheese]

Anyone who now talks about "cutting the cheese" is on my shit list.

Thank you. I'd prefer my cheese to remain uncut and intact....

[MarleysGh0st]

Oh, man!

One question, though: I thought people came with only one colon each. Were you perhaps talking about the right and left side?

[Rexer25]

Anyone who now talks about "cutting the cheese" is on my shit list.

So, would that cheese you off?

[gsabc]

Oh, man!

One question, though: I thought people came with only one colon each. Were you perhaps talking about the right and left side?

Yes. My left was good. Passage to the right was blocked. Since sedation prevents my memory retention, I don't know if it was an avalanche or just signs in the road saying "seek alternate routes".

Sigmoid colon is just to the end of the major part of the colon. A semi-colon, in a manner of speaking. The full colon goes on much farther, as does the probe in a colonoscopy.
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddisease ... oidoscopy/