Colonoscopy

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If you want to catch colon cancer early, the best way is probably to get a colonoscopy.

An anti-vaxxer is more afraid of having an autistic child than having a child die of an illness.

A heavy smoker is more afraid of the withdrawal symptoms when quitting than getting lung cancer or COPD from smoking.

Same irrational thinking with me being more afraid of a colonoscopy than colon cancer, although colon cancer is MUCH worse I know.

That's the part that makes me hope I never have to have a colonoscopy. I could probably make it through the rest all right, I'd be unconscious for most of it anyway, but the prep? No way. I have what is probably a legitimate phobia of having diarrhea, I'd probably spend the whole prep time seriously wishing I could just die instead of go through that.

Yes, it's the preparation of the colonoscopy that frightens me. I have emetophobia, which is fear of being sick, but diarrhoea can make an emetophobe anxious too (even though I'd rather have diarrhoea than be sick). During the preparation you have to drink gallons of water all the time to prevent sickness from dehydration, but I still worry that I'm still going to be sick even if I'm keeping hydrated by drinking water. When my mum had a colonoscopy she done all the right things during the preparation but suffered those stomach cramps you get when you get diarrhoea, and those cramps always make me feel ill, they feel just like menstrual cramps except they're in the colon instead of the uterus.

I've cried out of fear and panic when other people announce they have to have a colonoscopy, so God knows how hysterical I will be if I had to have one.

You won't vomit while you're preparing for a colonoscopy.

The worst part of the colonoscopy-----is the preparation.

The actual procedure is painless--since you are put under general anesthetic.

When you wake up after the surgery, you feel woozy but it's not an unpleasant woozy.

It is all done with. It went well. There were no polyps. They found ulcers that were there before. Took biopsy’s of those. They could be from bowel preparation. Also they found some hemorrhoids. GI doc does not seem worried. I do not have to do this for another 5 years.

That was about it.
I will take it easy for a day or two and hopefully that should be it.

Yay for good results!

Congrats on getting through it. My doctor's started nagging me about it too, but I'm a horrible coward about invasive procedures.

This year began my first of the regular ones... I had one before when I had cancer treatment. It was awful.

i heard there was a virtual method of visualizing the inside of the bowels that for the most part negated the need for the roto-rooter.

As a (hopefully future) medical student and someone who works in healthcare we don't think bodies and bodily functions are gross. It's all totally normal stuff and we just want to make sure you're good and healthy. My grandma died from colon cancer, I wouldn't want anyone to ever go through it. It's important to get checked out every once in awhile, especially if someone else in your family has had it.