Having a colonoscopy.

Evangelion said:
After my first colonoscopy, I was given one of the photos taken inside my bowel. It was full colour, and almost wallet sized. The details were excrutiatingly clear; you could actually see the ulcers inside my colon. :)

When I returned to work, I copped a lot of good humoured ribbing about "the doctors playing around with ya ****". Then I showed them the photo and got my own back by watching the expressions on people's faces. :D

After that, it was nothing but sympathy and friendly enquiries about my health. ;)



Solidarity! :cool: Colitis sufferers unite and stand! (Because it's too painful to sit...) :p
Click to expand...

hey what about us Crohns sufferers too!!!

diagnosed 15 years ago...i can tell you i've had more objects rammed up my ar&e then jenna hayes.

:D

ps and on a footnote knowing what i know now..how then hell can any man ever be gay?

:eek:
 
Raymond Lin said:
That's not what I asked.

I asked what made you guys to go and have one in the first place?

Surely not every male in this country gets a letter ask them to do a colonoscopy when they hit 18 years old. This isn't the same as smear test for women where they get a letter every few years. So obviously something made you go to see your GP and then ask for a probe, was it pain in the stomach or was it because you had an accident and had an X-Ray in your abdomin and the technician picked up something on the scan and sent you for a probe? I mean no healthy person with no pain would go ask for their bum to be explored surely, unless you are that way inclined.

That is what i am getting at, hope that makes more sense.
Click to expand...

Aah got you now, I was going to the toilet crapping about 20 times per day, had mega urgency and had about 20 seconds to make it before I had to go which resulted in lots of accidents and finally only been able to go out when it was dark at night, take my dog for a walk on the beach and then just go there and then.
In the early days I was driving and said to my misses I could do with going to toilet and then just messing myself. It was a huge shock at first, just the odd accident but then things got really bad, lots of blood in my stools and bad stomache aches.

It went on for about 8 months trying different medications but just getting worse and then I went in for the first op, to remove my colon and build my new J-Pouch, I then had an illeostomy and bag for 3 months while my new pouch healed and then got reconnected.

I go about 5 times a day now which might sound a lot but I just have a crap when anyone else would have a pee and I generally don't have bad urgency.

I'm a Firefighter so had a year out due to illness and everyone on my watch knows about my condition so if we get a large farm fire that drags on for hours I might have to disappear every now and again.
 
Skalaberg said:
hey what about us Crohns sufferers too!!!

diagnosed 15 years ago...i can tell you i've had more objects rammed up my ar&e then jenna hayes.

:D

ps and on a footnote knowing what i know now..how then hell can any man ever be gay?

:eek:
Click to expand...

Lay on you left hand side, knees up to your chin please while I just pump this up :D

I feel for you man, Crohns is another level up from UC.
Do you ever get angry about it? I did a little in the early days thinking if I have to have an illness why can't I just have a normal one where they can test me without rodding me and one were medication works and I don't $3!££ myself all the time.
 
chipperhead said:
Lay on you left hand side, knees up to your chin please while I just pump this up :D

I feel for you man, Crohns is another level up from UC.
Do you ever get angry about it? I did a little in the early days thinking if I have to have an illness why can't I just have a normal one where they can test me without rodding me and one were medication works and I don't $3!££ myself all the time.
Click to expand...

Angry/fustrated/depressed/anguished/fedup/tired you name it bud. i had a CT scan a few weeks ago for a suspected stricture. Unfortunatly this was confirmed and although not a total blockage still very uncomfortable. Also found a crohns flare up albeit small and another kidney stone.

At the moment I cant eat very much so I am losing weight rapidly.(10lbs last week). Feel sick to my stomach most days at best and very tired all the time.

good job I have a huge pen*s really.

:D
 
Raymond Lin said:
That's not what I asked.

I asked what made you guys to go and have one in the first place?
Click to expand...

Because we've already been diagnosed with a bowel disease. Regular colonoscopies are an important part of the management regime. Our doctors need to keep an eye on the progress of the inflammation, in case it's becoming worse or (horror of horrors) developing into bowel cancer.

My first colonoscopy was conducted to confirm a suspected diagnosis of UC, which turned out to be correct.
 
I was feeling sorry for myself as I'm just getting over a bad flare up of IBS, but now I feel guilty. You guys have got it much worse, although I do share some symptoms eg. having zero warning about going to the loo sometimes, so I do empathise.

I am supposed to avoid wheat, as this definately makes things worse, but we sell fresh bread in our shop and I can't avoid the smell..........................

Good luck with the dreaded 'probe from hell'. I agree, I don't understand how anyone can get pleasure from this.
 
Wow, there's so many of us on this forum! :D

Pretty cool, tbh. :)

Bledders, you've got it bad mate. :/
 
I have major stomach issues, i had a colonoscopy about 2 years back, pico lax is pure EVIL 8 hours that stuff made my life hell lol. the procedure itself was fine just went to sleep and woke up all done later, was with bupa though. private room and so on

Good luck man, am going back in for more scans etc soon :(
 
Last edited:
Well I'm alive :D.

The colonoscopy itself went fine, I remember all of it as I wasn't that sedated and luckily it wasn't too uncomfortable. The only bad news is they've confirmed that I've got UC of the whole colon and not just the left side as I first thought.

To answer the question of why I had to have one in the first place, it's because this time last year I was rushed into hospital because I was in absolute agony and felt like my organs were trying to escape from my body, that was my first flare up of UC.
 
Good to hear that it went well. Not so good to hear that your UC has spread.

Chin up, and keep the colon flag flying!

:)
 
Diagnosed with Crohn's in October 2003 and had a colonoscopy a few months later. The Picolax was the worst part of it all, more so as I had experienced it before when I had a Barium test.
 
DanTheMan said:
Well I'm alive :D.

The colonoscopy itself went fine, I remember all of it as I wasn't that sedated and luckily it wasn't too uncomfortable. The only bad news is they've confirmed that I've got UC of the whole colon and not just the left side as I first thought.

To answer the question of why I had to have one in the first place, it's because this time last year I was rushed into hospital because I was in absolute agony and felt like my organs were trying to escape from my body, that was my first flare up of UC.
Click to expand...


having mine removed all went without a hitch (some people aren't so lucky)

so glad i don't have any more mental pains like i had before the op, now I feel fit as a fiddle

sure i have to 'go' a few times a day, but I've got full control over it and no sudden urges :o
 
chipperhead said:
It's definately gone alright, like jay1979 said, they removed my colon and even scraped out my Rectum :eek:

I just wasn't responding at all to any of the treatments and was in a really bad way. They then made a new colon for me out of the end of my small intenstines, this is called a J-Pouch.
Obviously not as good as a real colon but far better than I was before and it means you don't need to have a illeostomy bag.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileo-anal_pouch
Click to expand...

same here buddy :/

there's a few of us on here :) about 5 spring to mind


at least now we're cured (for lack of a better term), i feel sorry for people with bad chrones :(
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom