The stuff was of a thickness somewhere between bread dough and pancake batter. When I tipped the cup it didn't even pour it just sort of started rolling out. Chalky and disgusting. Before it I they had two small (looked like minature Vicks Nyquil cups) cuplets next to the 4 oz cup of Barium, one with white granules in it and one with a clear fluid which I had to swill the granules and wash them down with the fluid, before taking the Barium. Granules were wicked effervescent-- like alka seltzer on steroids. Anyhow, all three servings were neatly lined up on the table and I joked before hand that it was like doing shots, to which the M.D. replied in a India accent, "You're going to wish you were doing shots in a few minutes..." Gotta love a doc w/ a sense of humor!

 

 

I know exactly how you felt having that done. I went through it last November to check my esophagus. Didn't find what they were looking for so I had to go back and have an endoscope put into my stomach. Never, ever felt a thing. Ended up with an ulcer caused by medications dissolving in a tender spot.

In a week and a half I get my 50th birthday present from my doctor......a colonoscopy! I think I would rather have the effervescence and the goo, thank you very much.

 

Firewatcher, you're correct on that one!

With a colonscopy, the procedure itself is nothing (as long as you stay knocked out) but the prep? Yikes!!!!!!!! By the time you're done it feels like you must have been sitting on coarse grit sandpaper with a saltwater rinse!

 

What are they going to do --- surgery? zap em?

 

i feel for yall... having been thru 7 years on dialysis, 5 now on a transplant, ive had about every test imaginable.... always have no fear... it CAN get worse and the docs are always coming up with new and exciting ways to poke and prod our orafices and bodies for more fun results to worry over for 2 days for the resulsts... btw so far nothing i have had done TEST wise compares to the fun of a kidney biopsy... a nice little grabber like what you might use to pick up parts behind a work bench goes in and neatly grab a hunk of tissue... and they say it dont hurt...lol

btw (raising glass of kool aid) heres to hoping the can deal with the problems fast, effecient, and relatively pain free!

 

My nephrologist said this might be in my future!!

 

I had to laugh Doctors always say that I had to have internal stitches removed after knee surgery years ago. I boldly asked if it was going to hurt really bad to which my doctor replied no not at all. I asked how he could lie and say that. I knew to well it was going to hurt some I just wanted to be prepared for the worst. His response was I didn't lie it's not going to hurt me a bit; you however better bite down on these handing me a neat stack of tongue depressors.

 

Well, if anyone needs any cut-rate medical work done just see ol' Doc Wylie. All the latest 19th century techniques and more! Bloodletting and leeching are my specialties.

 

Like several members here, I have had surgeries, and more than enough procedures. With a little valium, lots of verced and fentanyl, never, ever, felt any of it. Now....hours later......... Of course, that's why they make Vicodin.