Day of Colonoscopy Prep?

[aja8888]

Not that anyone actually wants an update but I thought i'd do one anyway. I completed my prep and procedure this morning and all is good. I was not completely cleaned out but they didn't say there was any issue. Don't have to think about it again for 10 years.

Great to hear!

 

[Bestwifeever]

Not that anyone actually wants an update but I thought i'd do one anyway. I completed my prep and procedure this morning and all is good. I was not completely cleaned out but they didn't say there was any issue. Don't have to think about it again for 10 years.

I'm so glad to read this! One of DS's friends is your age and just finished treatment for colon cancer that was caught just in time per his docs--it's a real thing for your age group and younger.

 

[zaqxsw]

I've had 5 colonoscopies. The first three were a 100% evening prep with restrictions up to several days before. They were done first thing in the morning. No issues.

The last two called for a split prep. I schedule these colonoscopies first thing in the morning, so a split prep has me having to get up at 3AM and obviously staying up.

On my recent 5th one, I chose not to do the split prep. The evening before prep was very successful based on the clear discharge, with the yellow color that says it is good.

My doctor preformed the colonoscopy but said poor prep...

I guess I'm back to having to do the split prep?

 

[Dtail]

Not that anyone actually wants an update but I thought i'd do one anyway. I completed my prep and procedure this morning and all is good. I was not completely cleaned out but they didn't say there was any issue. Don't have to think about it again for 10 years.

Good update

 

[SecondCor521]

A side note as long as we're on the topic:

I had my first one at age 50 a bit more than 5 years ago. One small polyp removed, so they told me to come back in 5 years.

My sister, a family practice doc, said that they (you know, "they") recently changed the recommendations on when to come back.

So I met with my colonoscopy doc and asked him to review my case and advise me when to come back. He said that in my case, the new recommendation is 7 to 10 years but his practice recommends 7 years.

So I will get my second one at age 57 in a bit under two years.

This may seem silly, but I strongly prefer to balance the diagnostic value of colonoscopies with the very small risk of a colon perforation.

Over the 25 years I might have to be doing colonoscopies, I figure I might avoid one colonoscopy by doing this - needing only five instead of six.

I don't mind the colonoscopies themselves, and I don't even mind the prep. But I really don't want a perforation, so one less risk exposure is better in my book as long as I'm within the guidelines.

 

[RetiredHappy]

Perforation of colon is a real risk that should be not dismissed. My close friend's mother died due to perforation of colon because of a colonoscopy and it wasn't caught until the evening. She died 2 days later. Another very close friend whom we golf with had his colonoscopy and he was bleeding and called the doctor's office. They pretty much blew him off and he ended up with an emergency room visit. His gastroenterologist who did the procedure said that he would meet him in the ER but never showed up. In the end another doctor in ER told him that he would work on him to save his life. The doctor put a clip on the perforation (and he still has this clip inside him now 35 years later). This ER doctor said he had seen several of such cases as my friend's and he said personally he would not get a colonoscopy.

I had a sigmoidoscopy at 45 due to hemorrhoids to rule out other causes. I was then supposed to have a colonoscopy 10 years later. I had annual fecal test while at Kaiser and then Cologuard until was past 60. I told myself to have 1 colonoscopy after I turned 60 and I did one last year at 61. My result was negative/clear. I am not due for another one in 10 years' time. My husband had refused to have a colonoscopy and finally last year, Cologuard test showed positive results and hence he had one at the age 75. Our GI doctor found 7 polyps and asked that he return in 5 years. Since most polyps take 10 years to develop into cancer, we will decide whether he will have one at 80. It will depend on his health then.

 

[SecondCor521]

Right. I basically don't like perforations or colon cancer, so trying to balance the risk.

 

[levindb]

From Google AI.....
"The incidence of colon perforation during colonoscopy is estimated to be between 0.016% and 0.8% for diagnostic procedures, and can be as high as 0.02% to 8% for therapeutic colonoscopies. Overall, the perforation rate is generally reported to be less than 1% for all examinations."
I believe my colonoscopy at age 42 saved my life...I am now 75. I had 2 uncles and 1 grandfather that died from "consumption"...which I later found out meant cancer...a little more digging and I learned it was colon cancer. No one told me about that detail until after I had 6" of my colon removed.

 

[pacergal]

Not that anyone actually wants an update but I thought i'd do one anyway. I completed my prep and procedure this morning and all is good. I was not completely cleaned out but they didn't say there was any issue. Don't have to think about it again for 10 years.

glad everything went well.

Colon cancer is on the rise, especially among younger folks, having a yearly cologuard test or colonoscopy every 5-10 years per your Dr is a smart thing to do, in my opinion.