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Posted 9/21/2007 8:26 AM (GMT -6)
Hi,

just wanted to hear any funny stories while you had your colonsocopy or endoscopy...

I don't have one....yet :-)

I need some laughter....I feeel sooo nauseaous!!!

Jackie

Posted 9/21/2007 9:35 AM (GMT -6)
I have one. My husband was a police officer and on duty and he was told that he could bring me to my scopes as long as he wasn't on a call. Go figure, he had stacked calls all morning and was getting nervous that he wouldn't be able to go. I knew I couldnt walk there and was scared to take a taxi since I was still "going" but I didn't want to have to re-do the prep. He went from a call near my apartment to a call passed the hospital. He called me and said "be on the corner." He came w/ the lights on (bc he was on a call) and scooped me up and barely even stopped in front of the hospital door for me to run out as he continued on his call. I got some serously crazy looks. Then when it was all over I was still really doped up. I got in his face in the car and demanded he bring me to Wendys. He knows that it normally makes me sick so he said no and I just got really creepy and just growled at him to get me burgers. So he did. And I amazingly did not get sick. Then (i was a corrections officer at the time) my supervisor tried to call me in. I graphically told him why I couldn't go in and hubby had to grab the phone from me and apologize. I was laughing. I didn't get called in for a long time after that.
Posted 9/21/2007 9:46 AM (GMT -6)
I know one time I was really out of it for days afterward and when I asked my doctor why he used so many meds to sedate me he told me I was really cussing him out for hurting me so they kept giving me more and more.

Another time I was given sedation that causes amnesia and I was the "phone tree mom" in my daughters class. I guess I had a call to activate the phone tree when I got home from my colonoscopy, so I did. Well the next day I didn't remember doing it, so I called them all again, lol. They probably thought I didn't remember calling because I was drunk or something, lol.
Posted 9/21/2007 11:41 AM (GMT -6)
I remember waking up in the middle of it feeling really full and trying to tell him that I felt like I was going to explode and then felt the sensation of deflating. Then I saw the pinchers come out an take a sample of my intestines as I was facing where the litte TV was for the camera. And that's it. No other memory at all. Kinda surreal/dreamlike.
Posted 9/21/2007 4:45 PM (GMT -6)
I am laying there in recovery, and sorta deflating myself.

I notice that everyone else is doing it too, and I try to get a little choir group thing going on to pass the time...

B-I-N-G, Comeon old dude next to me, Mr. O, you have the really deep ones?

Then I hear from across the room, Mrs. B had an accident.

tongue
Posted 9/21/2007 7:53 PM (GMT -6)
My first colonoscopy was memorable. I was so curious what everything would be like, look like... you name it. I had never been past the waiting room of a hospital so - everything was new to me. Add some really good drugs to this mix and you have a very high and curious Michelle. I asked so many questions, that my doctor told me to stop talking because I was moving my colon. Truly a unique experience.
Posted 9/21/2007 8:16 PM (GMT -6)
THe scond time I had one, I woke up during the colonoscopy. It was awful! I remember waking up and attempting to reach for the scope. Someone yelled " SHe's awake!" THey held my arms down until I passed out again.
Posted 9/22/2007 2:47 AM (GMT -6)
i asked one dr once to give me a picture for my wife. he asked why, and i said to prove that my head is not up there! i cant take credit for it but i sure used it!
Posted 9/22/2007 4:32 AM (GMT -6)
Kind of funny, but more sweet...... I am the second story.....

http://www.chronicbabe.com/articles/732/

[*Just activated the link - C2]

Post Edited By Moderator (CrohnieToo) : 9/22/2007 6:53:59 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 9/22/2007 7:00 AM (GMT -6)
Wonderful story, KitKat!! Yer right, he's a keeper!
Posted 9/22/2007 9:08 AM (GMT -6)
KitKat- I cant believe you were so brave as to take prep pills and then attempt a long drive. All I can say is wow :)
Posted 9/22/2007 1:23 PM (GMT -6)

This has been arround for awhile but turn up your sound and I'm sure you will enjoy this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iIKU3C2Jc-I

Dave D

Posted 9/22/2007 1:31 PM (GMT -6)
Well, this was funny at the time.  After my colonoscopy last year, the doctor told me I had many diverticula and that I should not eat peanuts or popcorn.  I then said, "You mean I can't go to baseball games anymore?"   He just looked at me strangely.  I guess he didn't get it.  He was from another country and didn't associate that with baseball games. 

Posted 9/22/2007 1:33 PM (GMT -6)

This is about Colo/Rectal surgeons but never the less:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VNxR6A7F-nI

Dave D

Posted 9/22/2007 3:23 PM (GMT -6)
I mistakenly took a Percocet the day before my C. They couldn't put me under, even with 4 Verseds! I never thought about it, but the Percocet probably was still taking up some of the opioid receptors that the Versed needed in order to work. So I was writhing and screaming "OW! OW!" during the whole thing. I am only mildly aware of this now but do remember watching the C on the screen. It was fascinating. Well, finally, they rounded the bend and were able to see the end - my Terminal Ileum. The next step would have been total sedation, and GI didn't want to do that. So afterward I told him how awful it was and he said "For me as well as you!"

Never take a narcotic pain pill the day before a Colonoscopy. THey should tell you this!
Posted 9/23/2007 9:34 PM (GMT -6)
I can laugh at this now, but back then.....
Went for a psygmoidoscopy. Worse than colonoscopy. Had to be wide awake. No putting you to sleep for this major test.
During this very painful procedure, I actually pulled my hair weave out.

Ouch!!
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