colonoscopy bound

Prepped and ready to go just waiting for my son to get home from his college class and be my chaperone. They should have wifi so he can do homework. I had an offer from my sister and a friend to take me and they both backed out last minute; annoying.

I'm feeling irresponsible to have postponed this for ten years. Was in remission since I divorced and moved to the Pacific NW so didn't even get a GI until this flare. She's a P.A. but seems to know her stuff. She's talking colon cancer a lot since I was having so much bleeding (that has now stopped). My brother is dying from stage 4 colon cancer because they caught it too late. So why in the hell did i wait so long! IDK?

If the doctor performing the procedure sees anything suspicious do you think he'll tell me? Cause, man seeing what chemo does to a person is so scary to me. I tend to hold my emotions in my gut haha so no one else knows I'm scared but you guys. It is what it is as my mother used to say. I've really missed her lately. Time to shower and shave I guess. Any advice, I have 25 minutes

i will be praying for you!! what's done is done. just think positive and vow to always keep up with your treatment!!

Thinking about you e_dawn and hoping all goes well! crapty on your sister and friend for backing out on you, that's really sad to hear (there are too many selfish people in this world) glad your son has your back.

Don't let your GI scare you about the cancer thing....it may be her way of ensuring you don't back out of your c-scope (though if so, that's a bad approach IMO). Glad your prep seemed to go well!

Don't beat yourself up about waiting so long, I too am guilty of this...even though it may be irresponsible, I certainly would rather let time continue to pass by than get a c-scope (I think it's natural for many of us to want to avoid them considering we go through enough as it is).

Anxious to know how things go today...post back when you feel up to it.

Praying all is well!!

I'm not sure she really knows her stuff if she thinks bleeding means you might have cancer. It just means you probably have IBD.

Good luck with the scope, it's good you are finally doing something!

Thanks for the support! Really appreciate you guys!!! I'll take your diagnosis gary:) Everything went sooo well. Miralax prep with gatorade tasted good, put three glasses in the freezer and drank it slushy thru a straw. No nausea just yellow liquid with wipes and destine ointment made for no burn.

Everyone was friendly and joking around. Doctor rook lots of biopsies and I will follow up in a couple weeks

"No colon polyps seen. Erythema, friability and edema in the distal sigmoid colon compatible with UC." So glad to have found such a great group of people, wishing you all good health. Nap time for me haha

Sorry to hear about your brother, that is terrible. I'm sure you're colonoscopy will go well, you seem to have some resilience to you. Good luck :)

E-dawn, I'm so extremely happy to hear there are no visible signs of something very serious, I'm sure that doctors would certainly tell you that something looked suspicious, if they didn't it means that you have a severe flare up which no matter how severe may be, can be solved with meds. I wish you all possible luck! It's amazing how such forums create real bonds between people who are "on the same boat": I don't know you, we live on different continents and yet the first thing I've just done now after switching on my computer was clicking on the forum to check if there's any info from you, because I was so much worried to read your post yesterday. And now i'm really so happy!

Ewa, what a kind person you are. Thank you so much for your support!

q, thank you for advice... The PA is my doc, so the Dr. performing the scope didn't prescribe for me. I like the PA but thinking I'd rather have a doc who's more knowledgable....also she kept saying blood was possible colon cancer and she's unable to perform c scopes.

I discontinued the enemas because the bleeding stopped after a few days of no enemas. You're right I'll know more next appt. and go from there.