Just Do It!!!

I'm 66 years old and been putting it off for 15 years. I didn't want some doc shoving the Hubble telescope up me ars! But because my wife had it done and the doctor found 4 polyps in her colon, I decided to have a colonoscopy today.

Good thing I did! The doc removed 16 polyps, one of which was dangerously large, over an inch in size! Thankfully they were all benign. Had I not done it there is no doubt they would have turned into colon cancer.

Yeah the prep is no fun and a bunch of strangers see your warm, bare, hairy butt, but in the end its better than the undertaker seeing your cold, hairy butt and your friends looking at you in a box and saying how peacfull you look!

Swallow your pride, curb your fears and just get the dang colonoscopy! Doing so will save your life! Colon cancer is preventable!

 

Oh man!

Goodluck

 

The prep is a pain, the test is easy!

 

Glad everything worked out Ralphie Boy

 

X2

 

My prep went late into the night! Being very tired and having to constantly go to the bathroom is a bad combination!

 

Good news and good advise Ralphie Boy

 

They split my dose. Bunch the day of. Had to get up a 4am to finish the prep.

 

Glad you had the procedure done Ralphie Boy , especially considering the results.


Due to some concerns, I had my first at 41, and am due for another next year.

Like everyone said, the prep is not pleasant, but the procedure is nothing.

I was further concerned as we had to travel to Buffalo for the procedure.
Nothing like a 1.5 - 2 hr car trip after "prepping".


But, everything came out OK.

 

I agree with everyone here.....the prep work is the worst thing about the procedure. I've had two colonoscopies the first at 40 years old and the second at 60. Peace of mind is worth the small amount of embarrassment and pain of having this procedure.

One side note.....my first proctologist was named Dr. Butts, I still have to laugh when I remember that coincidence.

 

He drove a brown Ford Probe!

 

My first colonoscopy was done with me awake with my feet "up in the stirrups.....like a woman having a baby", the second colonoscopy was completed with general anesthesia....thank God! The first colonoscopy felt like Dr. Butts was pushing a telephone pole up my butt! I would never recommend this procedure without general anesthesia.

 

Well I don’t know, now a days that might appeal to some folks butt not me!

 

Ain't no way they'd be doing that with me awake.


Nope..

 

I think years ago that’s the way they did it, butt you could watch what was going happening inside you on a television!

 

That's likely why no one wanted to have the procedure done.

I know I'd tell them to kiss my hairy rump as it was heading out the door.

And I have no desire to watch that Discovery channel.



Besides, it's all re-runs all the time.

 

Walk in, stumble out clinic ?