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30 Jun 05 - 07:13 PM (#1513471) Subject: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,frogprince Tuesday I got my first taste of phosphosoda, the stuff they use around here to blow out your plumbing for a colonoscopy. Tastes like highly concentrated sea water with decomposing dead things in it. I was miserable for a few hours. I spoke today with someone who tried to get the stuff down and PUKED for hours. Is there a suitable alternative to that crap? |
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30 Jun 05 - 07:17 PM (#1513473) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST Aren't you supposed to put that stuff in a different orifice? |
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30 Jun 05 - 07:18 PM (#1513474) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,sixtieschugalug Whoopa. Dat last post be mine, all mine. |
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30 Jun 05 - 07:45 PM (#1513479) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,frogprince Nope; for some procedures you put stuff in the other end; this stuff is supposed to go down the hatch. It TASTES like it had already COME OUT of the other end. |
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30 Jun 05 - 08:49 PM (#1513485) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,sixtieschick My sympathies. All I remember is drinking gallons of bouillon for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and then squirting some yukky, stinging stuff where the sun don't shine a few hours in advance. If you haven't had one of these before, ask to watch the procedure on the television screen. It's like the Fantastic Voyage. Sounds gross, but it is really interesting to see the inside of your own body--the relevant part looks like a stack of pink calamari. Anyway, it'll all be history SOON, the Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise. M. |
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30 Jun 05 - 08:51 PM (#1513486) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,Rapaire Well, last time I had one done the prep was pretty bad, but the stuff I had to drink had a wonderfully nasty artificial cherry flavor. The first time I had one done the prep was so nasty, involving laxatives, enemas, and suppositories, I welcomed the thought of colon cancer -- figured it couldn't be any worse! I've blocked out the names of the stuff I had to use. Intentionally. |
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30 Jun 05 - 10:02 PM (#1513500) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,frogprince They sedated me with something in the I.V.; just as I was getting laid down on my side, they told me the procedure was over and started wheeling me out; I almost had to check the clock to believe 'em. I have been conscious for surgery on my right eye muscles years ago, and for cataract surgery a couple of years back, but didn't get to see anything except psychedelic blurs for those. My wife goes in for her turn in the morning; she chugged the stuff and says she has tasted worse; I don't wanta know. |
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30 Jun 05 - 10:25 PM (#1513504) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST General tip for bad tastin stuff... hold your nose while you drink it, and for thirty seconds after it. |
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01 Jul 05 - 01:28 AM (#1513517) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST I had to drink a whole gallon of the stuff. Not very good, but it didn't make me puke. What was truly awful was back in the early 60's when I had to have a GI series. To get the barium back out of me, they served up a shot of something called Leek's Phosphor Soda Salts. It was like having a fire hose coming out my nethers for the next few hours. |
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01 Jul 05 - 01:44 AM (#1513518) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage I had to take that super salty stuff prior to abdominal surgery. I can see how it could cause you to gag. I had to plug my nose to drink it. I can't tolerate the Versed that they use to "relax" you for this kind of procedure. It gives me a heavy-duty hangover. I complained and signed papers at the hospital so they could research what had been used to cause this effect, and after the last surgery (on my foot) I was awake at home that evening. I'll get them to use whatever that was at any future procedures. SRS |
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01 Jul 05 - 09:25 AM (#1513607) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,Rapaire The procedure of a colonscopy itself isn't at all bad, mostly because you're sedated -- knocked out with Valium or something. It's the #$@!%!! preparation! I was anemic, and the doc wanted to know why. I had an endoscopy and then a colonoscopy (the first one). Later on I realized that they could have done both at the same time, and eventually met in the middle. "Doctor! Doctor! I see a light!" Or just start at one end and run 'er on through, like a string through a chicken. |
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01 Jul 05 - 10:52 AM (#1513665) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: Pied Piper I've had one of these; I got a suppository and instructions to hold it in for 20 minutes. 20 minutes doesn't sound like a long time but after 5 I realised this would be a bit of a challenge. I managed 15 before going off like a rocket (I had to cling on to the seat to stop myself from taking off). They wouldn't give me the sedation because of my sleep apnoea so I endured the rest of the procedure whilst totally compost mentis (well as much as usual anyway). They pump you up with air to keep things open and I watched the whole thing on the monitor. A little uncomfortable but not painful and after I stopped farting an hour later everything was back to normal. I once had a Barium meal and afterwards went for a couple of pints of Guinness. The following morning I produced a turd that resembled a pedestrian crossing. Good luck PP |
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01 Jul 05 - 11:01 AM (#1513676) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: GUEST,Joe_F "Doctor, I've taken these so-called suppositories every day, just the say you said, and for all the good they did me, I might as well have shoved them up my ass." -- somehow sprang to mind. When I had my colonoscopy, they warned me that, tho I would be conscious, the sedative would probably cause short-term anesthesia, so I wouldn't remember it. It seems, however, that they neglected to tell that to the doctor; I heard afterward that he had given me a fair amount of advice, which I had been expected to remember! --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Treat a cold with the contempt it deserves. :|| |
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01 Jul 05 - 11:12 AM (#1513682) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: mooman Softies! Over here in Belgium you don't get any sedation ...just a couple of Buscopan compositum to relax your colon. Was in and oout as an outpatient in a couple of hours and the gastroenterologist made me a cup of tea himself at the end of the procedure. Only advice ...get someone else to drive you home! Actually the procedure wasn't painful at all, just a bit embarrassing and I did get to watch the whole show on the monitor including the removal of a very large polyp "on the turn". Didn't have to drink any of that stuff but the preparation otherwise was the worst part of it. Anyone over 50 who hasn't had it done ...get yer arse (ass) over to the clinic now. It's a lot better than the alternative. Peace moo (reminds me, I'm due for a check again, also for the prostate ...yippee, a double whammy!) |
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01 Jul 05 - 01:08 PM (#1513800) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: Bill D preparations differ depending on whether it's for a full colonoscopy or the easier sigmoidoscopy (doesn't go as far up)...I have had the latter 3 times, with excellent results, so they didn't recommend the full treatment. My doctor says the odds are, a sigmoidoscopy will be enough for 75-80% of people......what? you'd rather not play those odds? Ok, then.... |
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01 Jul 05 - 01:10 PM (#1513801) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: PoppaGator It's been a couple of years since my last colonoscopy; as I recall, they gave me stuff to take the night before through both ends: that nasty drink from the top down, and a suppository from the bottom up. The "twilight sleep" anesthetic didn't put me completely under, and I was able to remember all or most of what happened. It did put me into a very relaxed state wherein I could barely feel the (very invasive) procedure, and didn't care at all. I remember watching live video of a trip up my nether regions; very strange! The nurse/anesthetist who administered the stuff was a guy about my age. Just before he began, he asked how long I had been living in town; when I told him "over 30 years," he responded, "Then I know you've been to The Warehouse, right?" (That was the main rock venue in New Orleans back in the late 60s / early 70s). As the drug began to take effect, he asked, "See the Allman Brothers coming out on stage? Here they go ~ they're opening up with 'Whipping Post'!" |
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01 Jul 05 - 01:52 PM (#1513848) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: Spot Hallo everybody... I've recently joined the ranks of 'Phosphosodites'...it is the most disgusting thing I've ever drank!! I had colonoscopy, after frighteningly severe bleeding, and became seriously unsedated during it and vividly recall dragging myself, yowling, up the bed to get away..!! I class myself as a reasonably tough guy, but that was just the worst!!The preparation knackered me completely - 3 days of no grub and constant shittin'!! Only 3/4 done, so barium stuff just last week. More filth to clean the gut (how I kept it down, I'll never know!!...airlines, arseole invasion..pain, anguish, farting for England...(why doesn't bariumised shite flush??) But... I don't have bowel cancer like I thought I had...!!! I almost turned religious with relief!! And...all I can say is - Thank Fuck for modern medicines...!! Regards to all....a very relieved Spot ps..I laughed like buggery at the B/W turd....!!! |
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01 Jul 05 - 03:05 PM (#1513913) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: sixtieschick Jeez, I wasn't given any painkillers at all. My doc said that 93% of all people who have the procedure feel no pain. It hurt like a sonuvagun and I screamed bloody murder, to employ two apt cliches. It took over two years to pay off the $2,000 co-pay my insurance kindly didn't cover. (After sending in the last payment, the accountant actually sent a thank-you letter and said he'd miss seeing my name on his desk every month! Oy gevalt.) Still, the possible alternative, undetected colo-rectal cancer, is infinitely worse. It's one of two cancers with a hereditary component, and my grandmother died of it. Glad the test exists. |
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02 Jul 05 - 08:04 AM (#1514120) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: The Fooles Troupe The Aussie stuff I had to drink before was a nice citricy tasting thing - a powder made up with water to a 2 or 3 litre coke bottle. But getting the other 4 litres of water down was interesting. Later on, it was like swalling a firehose.., as the doctor had said.... |
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02 Jul 05 - 08:11 AM (#1514122) Subject: RE: BS: Warning, extremely bad taste From: The Fooles Troupe Swallowing... |