Comments on: Dave Barry’s Colonoscopy Journal

By: judy

judy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:29:20 +0000

I would think the correct term would be “colonoscopee”.

By: James

James — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:04:07 +0000

As a well experienced colonoscoper (I think that’s the term for one who’s received a colonoscopy), I must say that the cleansing and sedation drugs have greatly improved.

Nonetheless, I must express the need for a seatbelt on the toilet, or you will find yourself in the asteroid field between Earth and Mars.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:29:44 +0000

The doc told me about his experience before I went in. It seems afterward he went home and went jogging. The trick is he “woke up” in the middle of the jog and didn’t know how he got there.

What happened to me is I remember getting set up on the table and suddenly my wife was there in the recovery room. I looked surprised and said “Your here!” She looked stunned and said I had been talking to her and the doctor for 15-20 minutes.

By: J-Dog

J-Dog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:39:49 +0000

Knocked out is the only way I roll on this kind of stuff. I recommend it to all.

By: Karen S

Karen S — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:38:49 +0000

That article was hysterical! I have to get colonoscopies usually every 2-3 years (due to pre-cancerous polyps). At least they have made it a much more comfortable procedure than when I started. The only nasty thing you have to drink is the phospho-soda, and it’s in 2 very small bottles, about 4 ounces, I think. The anesthesia is much better also– you fall asleep instantly and wake up instantly, feeling fine. (although you still aren’t allowed to drive that day).

By: F.C. Kuechmann

F.C. Kuechmann — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:29:18 +0000

if you enjoyed colonoscopy, you’d love a pantopaque myelogram [a particularly unpleasant variety of spinal tap]

By: Austringer

Austringer — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:59:25 +0000

The view wasn’t distracting enough one time and the monitor was out of my sight-line the other. Maybe I should have slugged back a double-dose of ethanol self-anesthesia shortly before the procedure, but I guess I had been hopeful that I could talk them into sedation anyway at the time of the procedure.

By: Eamon Knight

Eamon Knight — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:14 +0000

I was concious for mine, though in a sort of drunken state where I babbled at the med team. But I do recall watching the insides of my colon on the monitor, though. For a science geek, very cool ;-).