After a wonderful 28th anniversary weekend in Cozumel, I came home with what I thought was "Montezuma's Revenge". After a couple of days of "revenge" I noticed blood. Lots of blood! I tried normal OTC medications for the "revenge" but to no avail. Fast forward one week, and I go to my primary care doctor who thinks it's a 'bug' from Mexico and prescribes antibiotics. 5 days later, the antibiotics have done nothing for the blood issue, but the diarrhea is better. PCP then refers me to Dr. Gilmore-Lynch (colo rectal surgeon) for further treatment. She schedules the dreaded colonoscopy to check out the reason for the bleeding.
Yesterday I complete the "Bowel Prep". Suggestions for anyone doing that: super cold, in a cup with a lid, through a straw and as fast as you can get it down. Chase it with Grape Juice. Not as bad as I had been led to believe. But not quite as effective on me, since I'd had two weeks of diarrhea already.
Today, I have the colonoscopy under Managed Anesthesia Care. Woke up from the procedure in horrible gas pain. Begging for more drugs. I was given Fentanyl injections every 5 minutes for about 30 minutes, then some relief. The doctor found a 12mm semi-pendulated? polyp and removed it. This was probably the cause of the bleeding. Home with quite a bit of gas pains that finally subsided in about 2 hours.
Now for the wait until Monday or Tuesday for path results......
3 comments:
What do they consider managed anesthesia? You were all the way out, right?
I was out completely, but no tubes for intubation...breathed on my owne during the procedure.
I would do it without anesthesia if I could avoid the prep. Moma taught me never to put foul stuff like that in my mouth. Surely there is some way to make the flavor agreeable.
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