Today I turned 50!

Lesley wrote: Welcome to the club – it ain't so bad!

and she is workin on doin splits...... go you.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Carguy, maybe you should've chosen someone other than Dr. Assrape for your procedure. (I understand, though. You probably thought he was Indian and actually pronounced it "Osropee.") Margie

Sultan, you are "experienced" aged like a fine wine, now you have to sit on the top shelf. There are advantages however. You can ogle young girls and get away with it because they think you're harmless. AARP card discount! (I think it's 50).

Carguy, both my grandfathers died of colon cancer, my mother had it and beat it. Put it off all you want but the last thing you want to hear is "Gee, if only you'd come in sooner...."

Happy Birthday, Sultan.

If it was a baaad doctor then it's the same doctor all my friends had and their friends, and their friends, and . . .

Get in a room full of older people and bring up colonoscopy and see what happens.

To OP, not that 50 is old. You're still young, you just have to protect yourself.

carguy123 wrote:

None of those things happened to me. I didn't feel any difference whatsoever.

Then you are the exception to the rule. With so many of the Baby Boomers being of that certain age they talk, unfortunately this isn't a subject you bring up on polite society so they don't warn you ahead of time, but they'll definitely commiserate with you afterwards! The doctors tell me what I described is more of a norm than an abnormality.

Dunno what doc's your talking to there, CG. A colonoscopy is done with a tube about the size of your finger. If your butt can't handle a finger sized object, you have other problems.

A lot of the problems you describe are from GETTING OLD, not from a colonoscopy. Correlation does not imply causality.

Dr. Hess wrote: If your butt can't handle a finger sized object, you have other problems.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

Doesn't count. I believe that's a Giant Purple Snorklewacker finger.

I hear they only turn that color after amputation.

It's a "digital colonoscopy," not a "my whole arm" colonoscopy.

Well, by this time next year I'll scheduled for colonoscopy #3 and I've never had any problems.............well, other than the time I started waking up in the middle of the procedure, but we'll save that story for another time.

They put you to sleep for one? What are you, some kinda Bob Costas?

Ya, both times. That's the only way my wife and I have ever had them done. Sedated, which the doctors told me isn't really asleep, so they can get you to take commands, and the cocktail they use has a memory eraser in it so you don't remember anything. We've had them done at three different hospitals and they were all done that way.

Dr. Hess wrote: They put you to sleep for one? What are you, some kinda Bob Costas?

Maybe that framed diploma was forged and the "doc" used chloroform?

Yeah, I'm just ribbin' ya. Versed and Fentanil is what they usually give. "Conscious Sedation." I've done hernia repairs using that. Saves a lot of time by not having to wait for the anesthesiologist to knock out and bring back the patient.

HOWEVER, my colonoscopy was done with NO anesthesia. Started out as just a sigmoidoscopy and he decided to do a full colonoscopy during the procedure. As there was to be no anesthesia/conscious sedation (none needed for a sigmoidoscopy), I didn't even have an heplocked IV, so they couldn't easily start conscious sedation. The surgeon said "We'll have to reschedule you for a full colonoscopy." I said "Just do it." A little while later, he said "Here's your cecum." I looked at the monitor and said "cool." Afterwards, the nurse said "You are NOT a wimp."

Sedated is the only way they do them now. And I didn't have problems, still elastic. But then again I've had flight surgeons practice every year I was in the army (20 years).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPStwD1C8-c&feature=related

Colonostomy saved my sister's life. They found the cancerous and pre-cancerous pollops and growths. She was 50, and did it as a "one of those things you do".

If she hated waited for symptoms, she'd be dead. I've enjoyed her being around for the last "additional" 12 years.

Go get one. You are overwrought with urban myths. And even if you did have some complication, think your loved ones would rather have you around to talk to or talk to you headstone?

Don't screw around, go get one.

Dunno what doc's your talking to there, CG. A colonoscopy is done with a tube about the size of your finger. If your butt can't handle a finger sized object, you have other problems. A lot of the problems you describe are from GETTING OLD, not from a colonoscopy. Correlation does not imply causality.

Instant cause and effect!!

And the tube I saw was bigger than my finger. What size hands do you have?????

Well, you're more than twice my age. I turned 25 today

Enough with the butt talk you old guys....

OK. Who wants to be the first to do a GRM style colonoscopy on Hess? I'll bring the beer. Radio Shack must sell some little cameras that will go inside a chunk of garden hose. Hook the camera to one of those new-fangled phones and we can post the photos in the hot-linked picture thread ! All done in the sanitary confines of someone's garage.

In reply to carguy123:

Colonscopy - I don't think it means what you think it means.

Radio Shack doesn't advertise in The Mag (or Mags). However, HF does: and you can use the GRM published coupon for an additional 20% off. Woot.

I have a colonoscopy set. I got it from Goodwill. It was on sale.

Terminology is probably half of learning medicine. TR5, "ostomy" is making a hole. "Oscopy" is scoping it out.

Colostomy - Opening the colon to the abdominal wall, usually because the gut is either broken and removed or severely damaged. Butt usually not hooked up, but can still be, depending on the procedure. Iliostomy - Doing that with the illium (small intestine). Tracheostomy - Hole in the trachea so you can breath through it instead of your mouth and nose (extra pieces). Colonoscopy - looking around inside the colon.

I've had four colonscopies and I E36 M3 just fine. And my butt is just as tight as it always was (very!).

And I love those drugs. Yum!

My wife will occasionally ask what's being discussed on the GRM board. I think she thinks I make some of this stuff up.

Otto Maddox wrote: In reply to carguy123: Colonscopy - I don't think it means what you think it means.

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DeadSkunk wrote: My wife will occasionally ask what's being discussed on the GRM board. I think she thinks I make some of this stuff up.

It's amazing how many times I report info I've gathered on the list. People don't believe me either when I tell them where I got it.

I do a market commentary every week and many's the time GRM stuff has made the front page or has been used to document or justify something. I can truly say I'm working when I'm on the forum.