Can you see yourself doing any of these summery pastimes in my country's tropical north. @Micki Pembroke.. https://www.bing.com/images/search?...ul+north+queenlsnd+Australia+pics&FORM=IQFRML
So am I, but I have made the executive decision that I'm not going to have another one. I'll just live in blissful ignorance.
Had my first and only at 75. The doctor who performed it has ben trying to get me to come in again for over a year.
I share the feeling of not wanting to have this done. It has been six years and they did find a small beign polyp then. I made hubby get his before he retired this year since they always find more on him and had been ten years.
I have had two..one in my 50s.. part of a free nationwide Bowlel C test and another in my 60s.. All good.
I learned Gloria Mitchell is dreading a colonoscopy. My wife age 75 just had one. She absolutely didn't want to take the liquid horrible tasting bowel cleaning prep that medicare would cover. The 32 tablets cash price is $877.27 . We bought those & followed the time frame the doctor set to begin at 6 p/m. Taking those was a real ordeal. 1st. began almost unbearable pain, then delay in those working. Basically she spent all night doing what the pills were supposed to accomplish. After the procedure a lot of stomach pain. The med prescribed to ease the pain side effect was constipation. More pain & eventually taking lemon flavored magnesium citrate. Today 5 days later she is back to no pain. All that to say talk to your doctor about what may work best for you. Ask if magnesium citrate is a suitable substitute for what they normally prescribe. That lemon magnesium citrate accomplished the same need to clear out her bowels just didn't cause the pain, and the taste was sour but doable.
@Bob Kirk ..you do realize your rendition of her colonoscopy did nothing to empower my already dreaded state of mind to have this done? This Dr doesn't do pills, just the nasty fluid mess. By the way there's no way in hell I'd pay that much money for pills to send me to the bathroom .
Going on 58 years of marriage & not concerned with leaving a large inheritance for our kids to pi$$ away, the cost for what she wanted meant she would get what she thought was best for her. Obviously with the pain & delay it wasn't.
I have had to take that liquid concoction several times.. no food just that drink over 12 hours, and I have to tell you, I already have IBS... but that liquid altho' quite distasteful to drink, didn't give me any pain at all. ! You just gotta be very close to a Lav at all times..
I've never had one and don't intend to. Of course, if I had ever bothered to go to a doctor, they could've found the diabetic problem and saved me the TIA. I don't know though, I just really don't like to do the doctor thing.
What I learned today is that I will never use the word 'misplace' again. It's just a word to replace 'forgot.'