NIGHT BEFORE big 'scope

Hi friends,
Well, I took one Ducolax last night and another when I got up this morning. I think I was pretty well cleaned out before I even started the Pico Salax! I've been fasting all day -a little broth at lunch, some apple juice and peppermint tea and just plain old warm water, all day. I started to feel a little down but then I thought about all the other people that have colonoscopies tomorrow and are doing the same thing as me, today.

Every time i went into the kitchen my mind wandered to snacks - i had to really make an effort to not just unthinkingly grab a handful of whatever.

I'm feeling tired now even tho it's only 8pm. I was so cold earlier from the lack of calories but i put on several layers including a fleece jacket and I'm ok now. I think I'll take a cab to the hospital tomorrow. My past experience has been that the morning of I feel like death warmed over - but freezing cold.
I hope the nurse is nice tomorrow and that the sedative just knocks me out cold.

Sorry for the not-so-to-the-point post. I guess I'm just looking to chat with someone who knows how I'm feeling tonight.

Ummm did you notice that you are on a UC forum?? Of course we can relate to what you're going thru! :) Good luck on your scope and let us know the outcome okay? Just take it easy tonight and if you go to bed early then you won't have to worry about being hungry.

Well, here it is, the morning of the big 'scope. I had to concentrate so hard not to nibble as I made the boys breakfast and the baby always leaves leftovers!

There's so much grumbling and growling happening in my gut - i hope that's ok. I'm was passing clear fluid when i went to bed last night but this morning it was a little cloudy again. One time a nurse told me that was normal as the bowel is always secreting..making new fluid, etc.

I'm a little cold, will get dressed warmer and make my way to the hospital in about 90 minutes.

I hope this doctor doesn't start telling me a bunch of detail right after I wake up - I always feel like such a dopey fool and don't think to ask questions until after I get home. I'll ask him for a follow up appointment.

thanks again for all your support, forum friends.

Uni-g

Hi , glad to hear cloudy is ok. Thanks for that.
I go alone. Too uncomfortable with UC and coloniscopies to involve anyone.
I have someone over 18 to pick me up in the waiting room
I'll take a taxi home afterwards.
I wish I wasn't missing work today but I really didn't have a choice since appointments
are hard to get.
Time to think over my next meal :)

Hi forum friends!
Well, I got thru today. My scope was scheduled for 11 am but i didn't get in there till nearly 12:30. Once the procedure started I had a very uncomfortable experience - it hurt more than before and so soon into it. I was sedated. The nurse asked me to roll flat over to my tummy - it took me about three turns since the IV was in middle of my arm and hello (impatient nurse)...i'm slightly sedated. The pain went away after that and next thing I knew I was waking up in recovery.

What gives? It thought colonoscopies were painless - how come this one hurt before it even got to "the bend"?

Some biopsies were taken and the good news is that I'm in a medicated remission. Last September I was flaring but the meds kicked in and calmed things down. I wonder if i'll ever get off the meds? I've heard of people doing just that. I actually just met someone with Crohn's who was living med free but strongly into the Naturopathic care.

love you all, forum friends - thanks for being around online - oh and re: Wendy's! Ha, I was craving KETCHUP chips :)

Great you survived! ;-)

I don't know of anyone who has stated that c-scopes are painless. I'm awake during mine but nicely "stoned"...still hurts with that air pumping before going around the left sided bends.

Since all is good in there, are you tapering the enemas?

When are you going back for the biopsy results?

q

Glad the scope went well; somewhere in my fog, I remember them saying that this might hurt, and I remember (I think) groaning. After my scope I had a little bit of peanut butter on toast...and then my husband went out and got the most delicious meatball sandwich. I've never had one, and I need to try it again to see if it was so drooling delicous because I was hungry or it was really that good!

And, I need to get to Canada to try those Ketchup Chips. I think we talked about them a long time ago on this forum!

Hey Quincy, nice to hear from you. I have to make an appointment with the GI to find out the results. All I got on my way out of there was a pre-fab sheet saying "normal - colitis in remission". The sheet said that it reported only very general information - the real report is of course with the doc. I'll know more after my app.
If I were to taper anything it will be the oral Salofalk since my creatinine levels were a teeny-tiney bit off and the enemas are not absorbed into the blood stream as much. I would LOVE to taper the enemas but it looks like for the time being I'll be at 5-6/week. Currently I take 5 , 500 mg tablets a day.

Yes Lonie - Ketchup chips (sound awful to many) but are really good!!

The pain, btw, was really too much. Why do I always pass out right after a painful episode? Do they give me another squirt of sedative when I become hard to 'manage'? What's up with that? If it's just a matter of time then next time I'm going to ask that they wait 2 more minutes before starting and let me fall asleep first. I'm going to ask my doc what goes on with that process. It's bs if given an extra minute of the sedative running thru my veins I could just as well miss the whole procedure. With the 4 scopes that I've had it's the same deal - I fall into pain and then vavoom, wake up in recovery.

Uni-g

Lonie, they have ketchup chips in the US. Look for Uncle Jay's or I think Burger King makes ketchup fries... I've seen them in vending machines and stuff.