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| QuirtEvans | Dec 17 2008, 05:51 AM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/health/16cancer.html?em Not that "colonoscopy" and "comforting" belong in the same sentence ... |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 17 2008, 06:01 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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You have to go through all that for 60%?!?!?! %$^%$#@#! |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Klaus | Dec 17 2008, 06:12 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I am fully confident that, by the time I am supposed to undergo colonoscopy, medical research will have advanced to a point where instead of colonscopy it is sufficient to do this:
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| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 17 2008, 06:18 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Don't count on it. ![]() |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Dec 17 2008, 06:19 AM Post #5 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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"Chief, let me know when you've reached the trapped miners!" |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| big al | Dec 17 2008, 06:22 AM Post #6 |
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Bull-Carp
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Please don't use this as an excuse not to get the recommended colonoscopy. I had one earlier this year and while the prep solution that I had to drink in copious quantities was not a gourmet treat, it wasn't all that bad, IMHO. The actual procedure was done under anesthesia or sedation (George, I'm not sure which is the right term) and I remember nothing of it. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| George K | Dec 17 2008, 06:34 AM Post #7 |
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Finally
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The whole issue of sedation vs. anesthesia is murky. I know what *I* mean by anesthesia, and I know what *I* mean by sedation, but other specialties have different perspectives (pardon me for using the word "perspective" in a thread about colonoscopy). The term GI docs (and other guys) use is "Conscious Sedation." By my definition, "conscious" means "responsive" to questions. "Sedated" means calm, but awake. The GI guys like to use a combination of Versed (a drug like valium), because of its amnesic and calming properties. We use it in pre-op, and it's not unusual for patients, even if they've spoken to me or the surgeon to not remember anything (that's why we don't have discussions about the surgery after the pre-op's given). The other drug they use is fentanyl - a rapid acting potent narcotic. It's a good analgesic, lasts about an hour, and like all narcotics, has some sedative action on its own. This combo does a great job of having the patient hold still for the procedure, perhaps even snooze through it (so much for the "conscious" part), and not remember a thing. This combo of drugs will not get you through surgery. That's what I do. In the war of sedatives and doses, if what the GI guys use is a .357 magnum, I come armed with a battleship. If your cardiovascular system won't handle the anesthetics, I can always paralyze you.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 17 2008, 06:45 AM Post #8 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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They gave me double doses of demerol and versed an I was still wide awake. Nary a buzz even. I remember every stinking inch of my thankfully very clean colon. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| QuirtEvans | Dec 17 2008, 07:10 AM Post #9 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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I remember a small amount of discomfort at one point ... but other than that, I was out for it all (with the "conscious sedation" protocol). I also had an upper GI a few weeks earlier, also with conscious sedation. I was concerned that I would gag ... the nurse told me I wouldn't, but that, if I did, I wouldn't remember it. I don't remember a thing about that one. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Dec 17 2008, 07:33 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The whole amnesia part seems a bit unfair. A bad experience is still a bad experience, you just can't complain about it later. |
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| JBryan | Dec 17 2008, 07:35 AM Post #11 |
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I am the grey one
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I wonder if you had a colonoscopy and an upper GI at the same time they would see each other. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| George K | Dec 17 2008, 07:36 AM Post #12 |
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Finally
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The GI guy could hold one scope up to each eye. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| George K | Dec 17 2008, 07:37 AM Post #13 |
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Finally
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Oh, I forgot the obligatory "what's the definition" joke. Q: What's the definition of a proctoscope? A: 12 inches of stainless steel with an arsehole at each end. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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