Painful colonoscopy

Gosh my prep was not nasty at all. It was lemon flavoured and not unpleasant. I only took it twice, once in the afternoon and again the following morning.

Jeanlyon, Perhaps yours was Picolax ?

I had Picolax and 'Did An Elvis' ( out cold on the floor of the loo for 5 odd minutes ) during the proceedings !

No mine was Citrafleet. Quite pleasant

Have just Googled Citrafleet and it's another name for Picolax.

Oh right! Well it just tasted lemony to me and was fine.

I've just received a reply from my hospital trust to the comments I made on 'Patient Opinion' and they apologized and said they would make sure that all patients are treated in a dignified manner and have adequate sedation and pain relief.We shall see when I next go but at least I had an apology.

Apparently the doctor who did mine telephoned me today while I was out. That's a first!!

Just received letter of apology from surgeon who did the procedure. Better than nothing.

That's very good jeanlyon,I think that the NHS are going to have to change their mindsets from now on----I hope.

I phoned my hospital today to find out where my Gastroscopy biopsies results were after phoning my GP surgery for the last 2 weeks.It's 5 weeks today since I had the procedures done and the results are still waiting for the consultant to see them.I'm assuming no news is good news.

I haven't had the results of my biopsies either. Don't even know what they took them for as I had no polyps.

Hi All

I have been reading all the post on this site with great interest. I went to see a private doctor because I was not happy with my local GP and he advised me that according to what I had told him about my condition I will need a colonscopy. In fact he said I satisfied all the criteria to get an urgent colonscopy. My problem is that my condition is such that it is impossible to examine me because of the intense pain that I am experiencing. The private doctor attempted to examine me with his fingers but he too was surprised that he could not touch me as I found the pain unbearable. He said that I would have to have the colonscopy under anasthetic.

After reading all the posts here I am worried that if they do the colonscopy under general anasthetic they may cuase more damage because I am not awake to alert them of the intense pain i will feel as they probe, and secondly if the colonscopy is not under general anasthetic how in gods name am I going to cope with the pain that all of you have described when right now it is so painful that you cant even get a matchstick in there let alone probing fingers or tubes.

I will be extremely thankfull if some one on this site can comment on my plight. ( I'm so glad I came across this site)

I'm not medically qualified, but first of all I would think you need to see a colorectal surgeon to decide what needs to be done. Maybe the first thing they could do would be a virtual colonoscopy (CT scan). even then you would have to do the prep toclean the bowel.

Hi New Guy,I am surprised that they are going ahead with your procedure with so much inflammation you are suffering but maybe your doctor feels it's vital to your well being so I would definitely go with a General anaesthetic . If they let me have one for my forth- coming procedure I would be delighted but it's going to be a sedative job and I'm dreading it as they only give you a light one. Good luck,hope they can help you I'm sure they will be very careful.

Hi new guy. I think you're in a different situation compared with other here. Most here seem to have had precautionary colonoscopies - i.e. on balance the Dr thinks it's in your best interests. In your case it sounds like your Dr has a real concern. Nobody here has posted about a general anaesthetic. Everyone has had either or both a sedative to make the procedure less distressing plus an analgesic to reduce pain. If you have a general anaesthetic then you are in a different ball-game and you will have a specialist anaesthetist who will see you and examine you before the procedure. My advice is to do as the Dr suggests but explain your fears and concerns to the referring Dr (usually GP), the GI specialist and the anaesthetist.