serenity
13-03-09, 04:04
I went to a GI doc regarding ongoing nausea issues and was fully prepared to be told I need an endoscopy (which I have had before) but he told me I also need a colonoscopy screen too because my mum had polyps removed following bleeding when she was 48. I am 38 and apparantly if you have any sort of familial history you should be screened ten years before they were diagnosed.
I did a really dumb thing and googled colonoscopies and have read about perforated bowels, indescribable pain and torture during the procedure etc etc. Now I am absolutely terrified (well I was before anyhow because of my HA). I have scheduled in the endoscopy for a weeks time but haven't confirmed the colonoscopy yet and need to make my mind up soon. Of course I am worried about the anaesthetic (profopol I think) which is the same as for just the endoscopy anyhow, the bowel prep and how I will handle that (really worried about not eating for so long, feeling all PA symptoms due to that and the laxatives) and the possible (albeit rare) bad outcomes. Don't know what to do, whether to have it or not and am kind of obsessing over it all at the moment. Also, now I have this niggling doubt that I need to be checked out for bowel cancer because of my mum's history which I hadn't thought of before. Aaaarghhh! I hate this, just want to feel healthy in body and mind and not worry so much! :weep:
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated...I am going to my gp's to discuss this with him and see what he advises although I kind of have a general feeling of what he will say.....:unsure:
I did a really dumb thing and googled colonoscopies and have read about perforated bowels, indescribable pain and torture during the procedure etc etc. Now I am absolutely terrified (well I was before anyhow because of my HA). I have scheduled in the endoscopy for a weeks time but haven't confirmed the colonoscopy yet and need to make my mind up soon. Of course I am worried about the anaesthetic (profopol I think) which is the same as for just the endoscopy anyhow, the bowel prep and how I will handle that (really worried about not eating for so long, feeling all PA symptoms due to that and the laxatives) and the possible (albeit rare) bad outcomes. Don't know what to do, whether to have it or not and am kind of obsessing over it all at the moment. Also, now I have this niggling doubt that I need to be checked out for bowel cancer because of my mum's history which I hadn't thought of before. Aaaarghhh! I hate this, just want to feel healthy in body and mind and not worry so much! :weep:
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated...I am going to my gp's to discuss this with him and see what he advises although I kind of have a general feeling of what he will say.....:unsure: