Why is a colonoscopy performed,how is it performed,is it painful?
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A colonoscopy is performed to detect the early signs of colon cancer (polyps) and if any polyps are found they are removed then.
A Colonscopy is quick and easy usually and they put you to sleep for it. There is no pain because you are knocked out.
You are asked to prepare the night before by not eating anything after midnight and you have to drink this stuff that makes you go to clean out your colon. The preparation is the worse part. The colonoscopy itself is nothing.
The next morning you go in early about two hours before your procedure where they take your information and you are taken to a room to get dressed in a hospital gown. Your surgeon comes in and explains the procedure to you and sees if you have any questions.
An anesthesiologist comes in and explains what he/she does (puts you asleep and monitors your vitals) and starts the anesthesia process.
How it is performed: After you're knocked out, you're placed on your side on the table and they stick a long tube up your butt. The end of the tube has a light, camera, and pincers at the front of it. The surgeon slowly moves the tube up your colon looking for any abnormalities and polyps. Gas is also pumped into you to make viewing easier. If any abnormalities are found (polyps), the surgeon removes them. (The polyps are sent to the lab to determine if they are benign or malignant (cancerous).)
After you wake up, you make feel a little groggy and have to pass gas, but otherwise you're feeling good. Within an hour or so, you go home (always driven by a family member).
Its a test that they can determine if you have any growths in your colon. Its not painful at all - you are sedated and the dr can give you an answer immediately.
well it sucks, but if you need one get it done.
first you have to go to your local drug store and get some phosphosodas- like fleets. Then you drink them down, and promptly start crapping for 8+ hours until there is nothing humanly possible left in your gut and you want to scream. At this pointyou are probably dehydrated no matter how much fluid you drank during the day (which should be a lot)..
the next morning you go in, they give you an IV, and its all probes from there,
Its not painful, usually you are alseep w/ some drugs or a sedative, and if you are young they totally knock you out for the whole thing..
when you wake up they tell you to fart, and then you can go... but plan on having someone else other than yourself drive you home since you will be groggy as hell.
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