Colonoscopy next week...

Peggy Tatyana wrote in message ...

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I'm not looking forward to this at all, but I thought some
of you might

have

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some suggestions on how best to get through it. I'm Type 1,
usually taking three injections a day of regular, and one
in the evening of Lantus.

I have to have a diet of nothing but clear liquids the day
before, so I'm planning to take only the Lantus, drink diet
soda or broth or water if the sugars are normal, and apple
or grape juice if they start getting too low. Anybody have
any advice or suggestions?

Peggy

The last time I had major surgery (total hip
replacement), my insulin requirements doubled despite a
drastic reduction in my carb intake.

My experiences with surgery suggest that you would best be
suited by testing often and injecting small doses as often
as needed. I more than doubled my daily quota of injections
to handle my sugars that first week.

You won't have as much trouble as I did; Colonoscopy is
about the equivalent of minor surgery. No cutting, less
trauma, but lots and lots and lots of stress. Stress of that
sort is more than sufficient to drive your sugars wild.

I would urge you to be flexible in your insulin regime. My
regime is:

How much do I shoot? As much as I need on any given day.

How often do I shoot? As often as I need to on any
given day.

At the beginning of the day, I never know how much or how
often I will inject. I have tested 12 times and injected 12
times on a bad day.

You have at least one and perhaps two "bad days" scheduled.

Regards
Old Al

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I'm not looking forward to this at all, but I thought some
of you might have some suggestions on how best to get
through it.

Do NOT let your doctor give you a laxative called
'Golightly.'

I drank it in preperation for a colonoscopy. A reaction to
it broke a hole in my otherwise healthy colon. I was in the
hospital 9 weeks with all kinds of complications because of
this liquid. Insist on some other type of laxative.

PJ

Peggy Tatyana said:

I'm not looking forward to this at all, but I thought some
of you might have some suggestions on how best to get
through it. I'm Type 1, usually taking three injections a
day of regular, and one in the evening of Lantus.

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I have to have a diet of nothing but clear liquids the day
before, so I'm planning to take only the Lantus, drink
diet soda or broth or water if the sugars are normal, and
apple or grape juice if they start getting too low.
Anybody have any advice or suggestions?

Hi Peggy,

I have found that hard candies are good for lows in this
sort of situation. You should be sure that your doctor
is ok with them. I particularly like the Creme-savers
hard candies.

Your doctor is the best person for advice in this kind of
situation, as he/she is privy to details about your life and
regimen that none of us are.

Best wishes,

Randy

I did my prep with Fleet phospho-something. Revolting (I had
trouble keeping the 2nd dose down) but at least in smaller
quantity than the GoAwfully. bj

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I'm not looking forward to this at all, but I thought
some of you might

have

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some suggestions on how best to get through it.

Do NOT let your doctor give you a laxative called
'Golightly.'

I drank it in preperation for a colonoscopy. A reaction to
it broke a hole

in my otherwise healthy

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colon. I was in the hospital 9 weeks with all kinds of
complications

because of this liquid. Insist

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on some other type of laxative.

PJ

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I'm not looking forward to this at all, but I thought some
of you might

have

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some suggestions on how best to get through it.

Raise your knees and think of something good, NOT the cool
looking student doc who's peering up your rear end:-)

Actually, it's not that bad. A bit uncomfortable and some
minor "stomach ache" type of feeling, but other than that
it's all over and done with before you know it.

I'm Type 1, usually taking

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three injections a day of regular, and one in the evening
of Lantus.

I have to have a diet of nothing but clear liquids the day
before, so I'm planning to take only the Lantus, drink
diet soda or broth or water if the sugars are normal, and
apple or grape juice if they start getting too low.
Anybody have any advice or suggestions?

Sounds pretty reasonable to me and it's exactly what I did
myself, although I have to say MY clear liquid wasn't, it
was cups of tea:-) Some with sugar (horrible) and some
without (wonderful:-)

I can't see the Lantus causing you to have much in the way
of a low though, but it's best to keep a sharp eye on your
levels on the day. The stress usually results in a higher
than normal day if my own experience is anything to g by.

Beav

Beav

Leave your dignity at the door and play the game like good sport.
Tasted yukky, there was poo everywhere (get or borrow a rubber sheet,
you'll need it). They found and removed a couple polyps, but didn't find
anything malignant. Best news I didn't get.
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Quoted message said:

I'm not looking forward to this at all, but I thought some
of you might

have

Quoted message said:

some suggestions on how best to get through it. I'm Type
1, usually taking three injections a day of regular, and
one in the evening of Lantus.

I have to have a diet of nothing but clear liquids the day
before, so I'm planning to take only the Lantus, drink
diet soda or broth or water if the sugars are normal, and
apple or grape juice if they start getting too low.
Anybody have any advice or suggestions?

Peggy

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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:05:52 +0900, "JoeMann" <[email hidden]>

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Leave your dignity at the door and play the game like good
sport. Tasted yukky, there was poo everywhere (get or
borrow a rubber sheet, you'll need it). They found and
removed a couple polyps, but didn't find anything
malignant. Best news I didn't get.

Um, they referred me for one once and I declined. As a
recommendation, your description was a little graphic,
albeit probably accurate. Not exactly encouraging me
to attend:-)

Glad they found nothing malignant.

I'm still going to think for a while if they refer me
again...

Cheers, Alan, T2 d&e, Australia.
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JoeMann said:

Leave your dignity at the door and play the game like
good sport. Tasted yukky, there was poo everywhere (get
or borrow a rubber sheet, you'll need it). They found and
removed a couple polyps, but didn't find anything
malignant. Best news I didn't get.

Um, they referred me for one once and I declined. As a
recommendation, your description was a little graphic,
albeit probably accurate. Not exactly encouraging me to
attend:-)

No sign of any poo when I had one Alan. I had to drink some
"clear the chute" stuff the day (maybe for TWO days I can't
remember) before and eat nowt for 24 hours. There's a lot of
farting happens, specially when they blow air up your ring:-
)) Nothing to see whenn they pulled the cam out and no sign
of anything pooey when I watched the on-screen transmission
while the camera was about it's work. All pink and grey up
there y' know🙂

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Glad they found nothing malignant.

I was too!!!!

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I'm still going to think for a while if they refer me
again...

If they refer you Al, go. It's absolutely nothing to have
any concerns about and believe me, those guys (and girls)
have seen more [censored] than you'll ever see in your life
and that's including all those on ASD, so ANYTHING you do
will have been done before. :-))

Beav

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JoeMann said:

Leave your dignity at the door and play the game like
good sport.
Tasted yukky, there was poo everywhere (get or borrow a
rubber

sheet,

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you'll need it). They found and removed a couple
polyps, but didn't

find

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anything malignant. Best news I didn't get.

Um, they referred me for one once and I declined. As a
recommendation, your description was a little graphic,
albeit probably accurate. Not exactly encouraging me to
attend:-)

No sign of any poo when I had one Alan. I had to drink
some "clear the chute" stuff the day (maybe for TWO days I
can't remember) before and eat nowt for 24 hours. There's
a lot of farting happens, specially when they blow air up
your ring:-)) Nothing to see whenn they pulled the cam out
and no sign of anything pooey when I watched the on-screen
transmission while the camera was about it's work. All
pink and grey up there y' know🙂

yuppers...... good old fleet enema for 2 days before
the procedure..... liquid diet for those 2
days......... and prepare to have something to eat as
soon as you can afterwards.... man, will that meal
taste good.... real food!!!!!

in small babies they don't even do the fleet.... my child as
less than 3 months hold for his procedure...... they must
have done an enema is my imagination on it.... but looking
at the scope picture on the monitor you see no feces
material at all....... and where it wasn't pink it was
ulcerated.... bordering on perforated ulceration..... at
less than 3 months old!!!! to this day they have no idea WHY
and they have no idea HOW it fixed itself (we did get to buy
some really expensive formula to feed him for the highly
allergenic types)

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Glad they found nothing malignant.

I was too!!!!

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I'm still going to think for a while if they refer me
again...

If they refer you Al, go. It's absolutely nothing to have
any concerns

about

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and believe me, those guys (and girls) have seen more
[censored] than

you'll

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ever see in your life and that's including all those on
ASD, so ANYTHING

you

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do will have been done before. :-))

go Al.... you WANT to know everything is clear..... a small
polyp is an easy fix...... something left untreated for a
long while is NOT good to deal with in the latter stages....
get back to your Dr and tell him you WILL go for the
colonoscopy (they give you good sedating meds :-))

kate

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go Al.... you WANT to know everything is clear..... a
small polyp is an

easy

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fix...... something left untreated for a long while is NOT
good to deal

with

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in the latter stages.... get back to your Dr and tell him
you WILL go for the colonoscopy (they give you good
sedating meds :-))

I watched my first colonoscopy on the monitor. I was
disappointed at my second to find that they apparently gave
me "too much" happy-juice -- I slept through it all. bj

Tiger Lily said:

go Al.... you WANT to know everything is clear..... a small
polyp is an easy fix...... something left untreated for a
long while is NOT good to deal with in the latter
stages.... get back to your Dr and tell him you WILL go for
the colonoscopy (they give you good sedating meds :-))

kate

Thx for your concern, Beav and Kate.

It was back when I was first diagnosed and was going through
stomach upset problems which Losec didn't fix.

Among the various tests I was doing they authorised 'oscopys
from both ends. But in the meantime it was discovered that
the cause was Helicobactor Pylori, so I did the special meds-for-a-
month course which fixed that.

In the interim, I did cat-scans and a full MRI for the
leukemia and as part of that that they confirmed there were
no prostate or similar problems. Incredibly clear pictures
of body cross-sections from the MRI.

So I was relieved to find that all the other tests sort
of negated the need for 'oscopys at that time, and the
doc agreed.

But, if it ever appears necessary, I'll do it. No modesty
left after an anal fistula op twenty years back. I never
realised before that that every muscle in your body is
connected to that one when you move.

Cheers, Alan, T2 d&e, Australia.
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But, if it ever appears necessary, I'll do it. No modesty
left after an anal fistula op twenty years back. I never
realised before that that every muscle in your body is
connected to that one when you move.

ouch ouch ouch ouch!

now you know what a c-section feels like :-)

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But, if it ever appears necessary, I'll do it. No modesty
left after an anal fistula op twenty years back. I never
realised before that that every muscle in your body is
connected to that one when you move.

Sort of puts a new viewpoint on that old joke about the
[censored] being the most important part in the human body
..... if nobody knows what I'm talking about, say so, and
I'll post a summary of it ....

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Hairy Antelope said:

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But, if it ever appears necessary, I'll do it. No modesty
left after an anal fistula op twenty years back. I never
realised before that that every muscle in your body is
connected to that one when you move.

Sort of puts a new viewpoint on that old joke about the
[censored] being the most important part in the human body
..... if nobody knows what I'm talking about, say so, and
I'll post a summary of it ....

It was the first joke I remembered the very first time I
tried to get out of bed after the op. I can still remember
that moment, 19 years later. Funny how some things stick in
the memory.

Believe me, I needed to remember every joke I could at that
moment. And it was only a minor op. Imagine what I'd be like
after something major! Wimp :-)

Cheers, Alan, T2 d&e, Australia.
--
Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.

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It was the first joke I remembered the very first time I
tried to get out of bed after the op. I can still remember
that moment, 19 years later. Funny how some things stick in
the memory.

Amazing how the truely inconsequential things remain so
utterly clear.

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Believe me, I needed to remember every joke I could at that
moment. And it was only a minor op. Imagine what I'd be
like after something major!

Probably too fuzzy to think of anything much ... I've only
"been under" twice, once very short, and the other about an
hour and a bit .. after that one I can remember being fuzzy
for hours afterwards .. dunno how people feel who've been
under for those marathon ops that one hears about - although
I suppose to undergo one of those one would have to be so
bloody sick in the first place that it wouldn't feel all
that much different .... other than a feeling of relief at
still being alive ...

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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:55:55 -0600, "Tiger Lily"
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If all our muscles weren't connected to our ring pieces, we
really WOULD be in the [censored] when we moved:-)

Beav

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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:55:55 -0600, "Tiger Lily"
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If all our muscles weren't connected to our ring pieces, we
really WOULD be in the [censored] when we moved:-)

Beav

That was the time I discovered I used more muscles going
downstairs than up.

Cheers, Alan, T2 d&e, Australia.
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Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.

I've had many surgeries. Some short & some long. My longest
op was 11.5hrs long & I was put into a drug induced coma
after that due to the pain I was
in. I do remember coming out of the coma though & gawd I
felt like death then. I just thank the Morphine that
I've had after every operation lol. I think that helps
the fuzzyness ;o)

Rebecca [email hidden]

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:58:49 +1000, you , Alan

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It was the first joke I remembered the very first time I
tried to get out of bed after the op. I can still
remember that moment, 19 years later. Funny how some
things stick in the memory.

Amazing how the truely inconsequential things remain so
utterly clear.

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Believe me, I needed to remember every joke I could at
that moment. And it was only a minor op. Imagine what I'd
be like after something major!

Probably too fuzzy to think of anything much ... I've only
"been under" twice, once very short, and the other about
an hour and a bit .. after that one I can remember being
fuzzy for hours afterwards .. dunno how people feel who've
been under for those marathon ops that one hears about -
although I suppose to undergo one of those one would have
to be so bloody sick in the first place that it wouldn't
feel all that much different .... other than a feeling of
relief at still being alive ...

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I've had many surgeries. Some short & some long. My longest
op was 11.5hrs long & I was put into a drug induced coma
after that due to the pain I was
in.

Probably the best way to deal with severe pain - what was it
that kept you under for so long ?? That sounds like
something drastic ...

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