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Endoscopy and colonoscopy on Wednesday!

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    Freya Rough Signboard wrote: »
    OK, wasn't sure if it had a specific name. Was told it WASN'T a colonoscopy, which I'd thought it would be, but no more than that. I was told no prep required, just an enema on the day, so can I assume no sedation? I have been trying to get through to the consultant, but no luck so far.

    The reason you don't need clean prep etc is the camera is not going up, Your procedure is more like a endoscopy which means the camera goes down...either way they really are not the huge deal we make them out to be in our minds.

    best of luck...


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    The reason you don't need clean prep etc is the camera is not going up, Your procedure is more like a endoscopy which means the camera goes down...either way they really are not the huge deal we make them out to be in our minds.

    best of luck...

    The camera goes down? I was pretty sure it was going up my bum... :o Confused.


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    Freya Rough Signboard wrote: »
    The camera goes down? I was pretty sure it was going up my bum... :o Confused.

    I'm assuming if you don't need to ''clean out'' it's going down..!!.

    I could be wrong but They would not be able to ''see'' anything if you didn't take a clean-prep.


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    The reason you don't need clean prep etc is the camera is not going up, Your procedure is more like a endoscopy which means the camera goes down...either way they really are not the huge deal we make them out to be in our minds.

    best of luck...
    How in Christs name would they see the lower bowel from going down?!

    It sounds like either a sigmoidoscopy or a fixed tube colonoscopy - both of which only look at the lower bowel & are more widely used in certain circumstances (ie bright red blood rather than darker blood)

    The enema is no worse than the kleenprep - just means you'll have to wait for the enema to work before you'll get seen.


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    Hersheys wrote: »
    How in Christs name would they see the lower bowel from going down?!

    It sounds like either a sigmoidoscopy or a fixed tube colonoscopy - both of which only look at the lower bowel & are more widely used in certain circumstances (ie bright red blood rather than darker blood)

    The enema is no worse than the kleenprep - just means you'll have to wait for the enema to work before you'll get seen.

    That's what I thought! The consultant seemed to think enema was better than kleenprep because there's no worries about having to do it the day before and all that.


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