My Experience - Flexible Sigmoidoscopy

[puzzledlass]

My prep seems to be a bit different, I can't eat 4 hours before procedure and nurse administers the enema.

It's tomorrow = freaked out!

[ricardo]

I was on the dreaded waiting list and my letter from the specialist said she would see me again in 3 months time after my initial examination of a scope just put up the bum to look at the colon(as 80% of cancers start there).
After nearly 6 months I had heard nothing and the dreaded waiting/apprehension was building up so I just phoned out patients department for the appropriate dept and got an appointment 9 days later.

The only prep I had and I must add my appointment was 8.00 a.m. was that I couldn't eat or drink anything that morning,except take my medication.

When I arrived at the hospital and was led to the appropriate ward there were at least 24 cubicles with their own toilet and I was the only one there.The nurses were absolutely great,asked various questions, gave me the enema for the Flexi, waited an hour and the doctor came to see me and then the procedure took 5 minutes and I didn't feel a thing, and everything was fine.

The nurses gave me a cup of tea and a biscuit and never rushed me.I wrote afterwards to say how pleasant they had been but in the back of my mind I kept wondering why I had to wait 6 months and then during the 2 hours I was there not one other person was admitted.(That was exactly 3 weeks ago)