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Just got done with my colonoscopy, finally time to eat!!!

jls9595
jls9595 Posts: 1,533
I have been torturing myself the last two days looking at all of your great cooks. Never really knew quite how much I love to Egg until I couldn't.  So happy for this 3 day sabbatical to be over.
In Manchester, TN
Vol For Life!
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    I hope you enjoyed your prep. 
  • jls9595
    jls9595 Posts: 1,533
    edited March 2014
    It wasn't as bad as the stuff they used several years ago, but not the most enjoyable either. The stuff you have to drink is the worst part. Terrible and quite alot. Wish they would still do the pills and just water but they said that has been "black boxed."  
    In Manchester, TN
    Vol For Life!
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Hopefully you are good for 5 years. Next time make some chicken and beef stock and keep simmering down till it's like syrup. Takes the hunger pangs away and doesn't block the view.

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    Osmoprep? Yeah, we don't use it much. Moviprep mostly. 
  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    edited March 2014
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    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

  • jls9595
    jls9595 Posts: 1,533
    Suprep is what they gave me this time. I believe Osmoprep was the pills? I liked it best.  The old Fleet Phosphosoda(sp) was absolutley horrific. Had to drink Sprite with it. I haven't been able to drink Sprite, 7up or anything like that ever again and that was 16 years ago when I was 18.  
    In Manchester, TN
    Vol For Life!
  • jls9595
    jls9595 Posts: 1,533
    Unfortunately I have to get one every two years, sucks.  
    In Manchester, TN
    Vol For Life!
  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    Just kidding of course...hope you are feeling better and enjoy some solid food!


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

  • jls9595
    jls9595 Posts: 1,533
    edited March 2014
    SmokeyPitt lol, sorry it is in the OT forum so that makes it ok :))

    took me a little while to get that's, clever.
    In Manchester, TN
    Vol For Life!
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    I hear about it on a daily basis. Our patient population averages scopes every 6 months to 2 years. IBD es no bueno.
  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,522
    edited March 2014
    I always liked the Fleet, could chug that stuff down in a hurry with no added sweetener, of course being Canadian I was brought up on Buckley's cough syrup, which pretty much makes Fleet taste like a mild Chardonnay. 
    Colonoscopy is much better today than it was years ago, I always referred to it as my date with the silver stallion. 
    Hope the results were good. I'm due later this year. 
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    The only fleets we play with are the ones you use after it's taken you on a few dates, if you know what I mean...
  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 18,727
    Something about a colonoscopy makes me hungry too... but I'm on the other end of the stick :)

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    caliking said:

    Something about a colonoscopy makes me hungry too... but I'm on the other end of the stick :)

    Whenever I'm up in endo the joke is always "what's for lunch?"
  • berndcrisp
    berndcrisp Posts: 1,166
    Yea, lots to joke about even after it prolonged my life.
    Hood Stars, Wrist Crowns and Obsession Dobs!


  • jls9595
    jls9595 Posts: 1,533
    Something about a colonoscopy makes me hungry too... but I'm on the other end of the stick :)
    Whenever I'm up in endo the joke is always "what's for lunch?"
    gross, I'm glad I only have to work on the opposite end of the alimentary canal.  
    In Manchester, TN
    Vol For Life!
  • stevesails
    stevesails Posts: 990

    after I have mine,,, my wife asks if they found my head.


    XL   Walled Lake, MI

  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    Yea, lots to joke about even after it prolonged my life.
    @berndcrisp, I just want to make sure I did not offend. It's kind of the running joke after stressful situations in the medical field. It's just a way to diffuse the pressure of the situation. Even with patients who are very sick and having frequent scopes, since their procedures are in the morning and the first meal they get is lunch. An icebreaker, if you will.
  • jimreed777
    jimreed777 Posts: 324
    Just turned 40 - when did you guys start getting these things?
  • stevesails
    stevesails Posts: 990

    50 or sooner if your parents die from colon cancer

    I am not a doctor

    XL   Walled Lake, MI

  • jls9595
    jls9595 Posts: 1,533
    I have UC so every two years or so since high school. 
    In Manchester, TN
    Vol For Life!
  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,522
    Just turned 40 - when did you guys start getting these things?
    Mid 40's due to colitis. My bother, who never had an issue, went for annual physical at age 50 and told the Doc his big brother had colitis, The Doc suggested he get scoped, and low and behold he had mild left side colitis. Now he goes every 3 years. 
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    jls9595 said:
    I have UC so every two years or so since high school. 
    That's my wheelhouse. I'm a clinical coordinator(RN) for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at a hospital in Baltimore. Do you see specialists at Vandy?
  • jls9595
    jls9595 Posts: 1,533
    edited March 2014
    I have before, but I have a great GI Dr. in Tullahoma(next town over from mine). Been with her for years and basically in "remission" since about '08
    In Manchester, TN
    Vol For Life!
  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    Good for you! We interact with them a lot and are currently doing a big clinical trial with them and Pitt.
  • Doc_Eggerton
    Doc_Eggerton Posts: 5,321
    Colonoscopy?  Child's play.  Wait until you have a cystoscope.

    Hope all the results were good :-)  I too get frequent medical tests, and I glow in the dark.

    XXL #82 out of the first 100, XLGE X 2, LBGE (gave this one to daughter 1.0) , MBGE (now in the hands of iloveagoodyoke daughter 2.0) and lots of toys

  • Holepuncher
    Holepuncher Posts: 388
    I remember my first one, they gave me something, no lie, called, " Go Lightly"...........boy were they wrong!!!!!
    Hendersonville, TN.
  • calracefan
    calracefan Posts: 606
    Colonoscopy?  Child's play.  Wait until you have a cystoscope.

    Hope all the results were good :-)  I too get frequent medical tests, and I glow in the dark.

    Thought I was getting one today, but the Doc put it off pending results from another test, may luck out and not have to have the cystoscope !
    Ova B.
    Fulton MO
  • Doc_Eggerton
    Doc_Eggerton Posts: 5,321
    Colonoscopy?  Child's play.  Wait until you have a cystoscope.

    Hope all the results were good :-)  I too get frequent medical tests, and I glow in the dark.

    Thought I was getting one today, but the Doc put it off pending results from another test, may luck out and not have to have the cystoscope !
    Ask for a Valium.  Actually, don't let me scare you off something that needs to be done.  Not a lot of fun but nothing you can't get through and make jokes about later.  Hope you have a pretty nurse like I did.

    XXL #82 out of the first 100, XLGE X 2, LBGE (gave this one to daughter 1.0) , MBGE (now in the hands of iloveagoodyoke daughter 2.0) and lots of toys

  • Doc_Eggerton
    Doc_Eggerton Posts: 5,321
    I remember my first one, they gave me something, no lie, called, " Go Lightly"...........boy were they wrong!!!!!
    Ah, two gallons of Go Lightly.  By the end you are tossing your cookies.  My first time they didn't do anesthesia.  Boy was easier with more recent ones.

    XXL #82 out of the first 100, XLGE X 2, LBGE (gave this one to daughter 1.0) , MBGE (now in the hands of iloveagoodyoke daughter 2.0) and lots of toys