Having my first colonoscopy in a week, so scared!

It's done!
It was really hard to get through last night because I was severly dehydrated, I even passed out once, they had to give me fluids through IV as soon as I got there. Like everyone said the procedure was the easiest part of all, I was taken to the colonoscopy room, they gave me Propofol and next thing I now I was waking up in the recovery room, that was the best sleep I had in my life! According to them the prep worked great and there's no sign of inflammation in the colon but the doctor said that only the biopses he took are going to give me a final diagnosis, let's hope so. They found hemorrhoids though, they are very inflammed because of the prep, it really hurts, I'm all sore and seeing blood when I wipe myself, any suggestions on what should I use to ease things a bit? The doctor told me to take it easy with the food today, I guess I'm having some grilled fish, everything sounds delicious right now! Btw, I'm still having liquid bowel movements, is this normal?

Good to know its all done!...I think its too much, far too extreme not being able to drink or eat for such a long time, I bet if some of these docs had to do the same they might rethink the procedure a bit.

fruitgirl said...
It's good that they didn't find any inflammation -- just curious, though, what was going on with you that they determined you needed one?

You could pick up some Preparation H (or store brand equivalent) suppositories that should help the hemmies. I'm assuming they're internal? If they're external, you could use Preparation H cream.

And yes, it's normal to still have liquid/loose BMs for a bit.

Thanks for the advice

There was a suspicion of some sort of inflammation ever since 2010, at the time I started having terrible bouts of diarrhea, sometimes with huge clots of bright red blood on it and mucus, at first it was diagnosed as IBS but after being to a GI he told me that it was probably UC and that I would need a colonoscopy to really find out what was wrong. At the time I wasn't feeling sick and decided to avoid the procedure because I was scared of it, unfortunately last month some of those ymptoms showed up and I decided it was about time to do this, I have severe anemia and the doctor wanted to check out if I was losing any blood, I'm also doing a upper endoscopy in a few weeks because of that. Unfortunately the doctor said that having a clear colon doesn't mean there's no IBD, we'll see...