Just imagine the scrapbook page....

[extrajoker]

After being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, I learned that my risk for developing colon cancer could increase significantly after about seven years, at which point colonoscopies would become an annual event for me

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[heathersbike]

I'm sure that you could actually make a scrapbook page that people would enjoy viewing... ;)

[extrajoker]

Maybe if it had flashing lights and a pop-up component....

[aersi]

While I haven't had that "fun" procedure I can understand the ugh of it.
Before I had my endoscopy, my doc said "We figure you'd rather have us try the camera in this end first!"
Yeah, I end up with the gastrointestinal doctor with a sense of humor at least.
I'm just putting it off though. I'll have to have colonoscopies yearly someday...thankfully not soon.

(My Mozilla spell-checker wants it to be kaleidoscopic ^_^)

[extrajoker]

Yeah, it helps when your doctor has a sense of humor.

Before my diagnostic colonoscopy six years ago, my blood pressure was really low. (Two days without food will do that, I guess.) Normally it's within normal range, going up (as I told the doctor) when I'm pissed off. He asked whether they could do anything to piss me off; I said, "I think you're about to."

(And yes, "kaleidoscopes" is LJ's next suggestion.)

[thena52]

It's better than the alternative-because the poor schmucks that can't get the colonoscopy completed have to spend another night not eating anything but clear liquids and get to go in the next morning for the happy shiny barium enema. So be thankful for the colonoscopies, because it could be much worse.

And for some reason, colonoscopies needs to change into stereoscopically according to my spell-checker. Weird.

[extrajoker]

I don't think a barium enema (however shiny and/or happy) could replace a colonoscopy. Not only does the doctor need to see how the tissue looks, but he also has to take samples to biopsy and remove any polyps he may find.

Having had one successful colonoscopy already, though, I don't anticipate any difficulty in completing this one.

Of course, my subconscious mind might not agree; my dream the other night involved an Innerspace-like investigation of my innards, in which I was perambulating my large intestine and trying to get my doctor to pay attention to a wall of suspicous-looking tissue.