Re: Any advice please on how to cope with this

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

A Colonoscopy gives them a better look at the whole colon, sometimes

the Barium dosen't reach as far as they'd like.

Also if they seen any small polyps (sp) they can snip them of when

doing it. :-)

Love Tess

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> Just a quick update to you all, my mum has now had both baruim enema and upper

endoscopy.Nothing major been notified to us as being picked up so far, she has

however been asked now to have a bowel endoscopy next week.We're not sure why

this is but in process of trying to find out,

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[Guest guest]

Hi a bowel endoscopy or colonoscopy is a proceedure where they examine

your large intenstine, the colon, with a camera that they insert up your bum.

The day before you will have to prep the bowel which involves taking very strong

laxative solution and causes prolonged diarrhoea. This is quite unpleasant as

the solution is not nice to drink and there is a lot of it and the time spent on

the loo is not much fun either. (Check out Connelly on You Tube searching

under C Colonoscopy - very funny- helps to have a sense of humour about

the whole thing!). I made it up and put it in the fridge so it was very cold and

drank through a straw and then had fruit squash at the ready to take the taste

away. Don't plan on doing anything the day before - just rest and read a good

book or watch tv. On the day of the procedure, it's a bit uncomfortable as you

won't have eaten anything for several hours so you'll be very hungry and

probably feeling a little weak. They ask if you want sedation and I said yes as

at times the sensation of the camera moving round the bends in the colon is a

little uncomfortable.They'll put a canula in the back of your hand to give you

the sedation which makes you feel very sleepy and relaxed. They also pump air in

you so you will have bad wind when you are coming round on the recovery table

but this is normal so don't be embarrassed. It's not too bad overall and it's

soon over. Good luck with everything.

Helen x

'been asked now to have a bowel endoscopy next week.We're not sure why this is

but in process of trying to find out,

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