No, not a peri question but I need help with an answer...if any of you have had a Colonoscopy, did you suffer with pain the following day? My results were negative...IBS diagnoses but I don't hink that is correct. The air that the Dr. pumped in during ther procedure never really came out and today it hurts to walk, sit and I feel bloated and sore. I thought I should feel fine today but I don't. Any insight my Peri-Friends?!
Thanks as always,
Girlsmom

yes I was very sore for a few days, took about week for it to all go away. try not to worry I was told this was normal.

Thank you :0)!!!!!!

Ditto for me....had the colonoscopy, all was well, diagnosed with IBS but was bloated and sore for a couple of days afterwards. Not sure if the bloating was so much due to the colonoscopy as if was from the IBS. I had very uncomfortable bloating prior to the colonoscopy which triggered both a transvaginal ultrasound and the colonoscopy...bloating along with some really unpredictable bizarre bowel movements. I also had alot of abdominal pain...both upper and lower..but especially along the rib cage. Hope you get to feeling better soon! God bless...

Teejay

Thanks Tee-Jay,
I don't think I have any typical IBS at all...no bouts of Diahrea and things. He just said that after scoping my stomach and now my intestines that I have a hpersensative mucous lining that is most likely very irritated with stress ( I knew that ;0) Did a tissue biopsy to be safe but expects nothing at all. I just wasn't told to expect this irritation,. They kept telling me pass gas after but I just couldn't!!!!I said this wasn't a peri question but I have to say in the last year this has really gotten in my way...perhaps it really is peri-related. Who knows. I'm just glad that he did an ultrasound of my liver, gallbladder, kidnes, uterus...was scoped from both ends, my breat Ulrasound was 2 weeks ago...the only thing left is to get my head examed and I have a feeling I need that the most !!!LOL!!!

I think the gas passing happens before you even wake up. With my first colonoscopy I was not as deeply sedated as my last one. I wake up with the gas a ripping, let me tell you I will never forget that.
Had the last one 10 months ago, I also never pass any air after coming home, I think your sore from the truma of the tubes! I had a friend whom refused to be sedated, she said it was so painful! So I'm sure your sore like I was just from the tubes going inside, plus they biopsy things alone the way.

I'm always happy to chime in on the colonscopy threads...I've had five (they shoud give you a medal or a certificate after that many!) Your question has already been very well answered, but to throw my 2 cents in, I've had coloscopies that laid me out for DAYS. I think my 3rd one...I was not right in my bowels for 4 days.

That means 5 preps!!!!! My gawd, what I drank has to be the nastiest thing on earth. I thought, 5 minutes? sure I can drink this little thing in 5 minutes and after the first swig i know I took every second of those 5!!!!! Got to spend Sunday in the bathroom for 4 hours and read "The Five People you meet in Heaven". LOL!! You do deserve an award!
Maybe they were kind enough to let the gas get out before I was awake...no more humiliation needed!

Anyone else realize they say the WIERDEST things when you come out of sedation? Things so embedded in your mind?

First thing I remember coming out was seeing my cute MALE nurse, second thing he was asking me if I wanted something to drink.
My husband said I was a wake long before that but I don't remember a thing!
Wonder what secrets we give away doing the sedation, they say your fully awake but don't remember a thing.
Bet they laugh their butts off.
Oh the prep, I don't care what you try to drink it in >>it taste horrible!
Drink some>Gag >drink some more >gag> drink some more GAG. Just about the time your finish drinking the last of it> it's time to spend the rest of the night in the bathroom!
Heck the colonoscropy was a breeze after what I went through the night before!

I like the sedation going INTO the colonscopy; it's almost worth the prep...

[Oh I fully remember what I was saying
Soooooo true Roundrobin That was the only thing I was really looking foward too!!!!

well I had my first colonoscopy this afternoon - this morning was just the worst, that stuff I had to drink made me sick and did not take effect for 5 hours. I tried not to be nervous, then once I was inside and they layed me on my side to watch the big screen of my lovely colon, at first I didn't feel much, but the higher they went, I felt everything - it was the worst pain I have ever felt, I thought I was going to lose consciousness it was just unbearable! I was given the meds but for some reason I was not even close to being asleep. The outcome was they have to do a biopsy on a colon ulcer they found. When I was done, I layed down for a little but had the worst gas pains and then I got to go home, which on the way I had an accident in the truck, then when I got home I was on the toilet for a while. The best part was I got to eat food, real food! I feel very tired and worn out right now, but I did survive. Hopefully the biopsy will turn out ok.

I am booked in for my first one in two weeks time. Have to say I am not looking forward to it one little tiny bit but if you can all do it I guess I can too. Have put it off successfully for several years so now the time has finally come!

2sons: You felt pain? Unacceptable!!!! I had a colonoscopy once (I think it was my 3rd or 4th) and the sedation didn't quite take the effect like it should. I felt unbearable pain as well. When I came out of it, I gave holy hell to my doctor. The next year I reminded him of what had happened previously and told him in no uncertain terms that he'd better make sure to sedate me properly!!!

There is absolutely no reason for you to have gone through the colonscopy feeling the way you did. Please tell your doctor so that he will make a note to give you more meds next time.

Hope everything turns out okay with the biopsy...keep us posted...

No. But then, I'm an experienced drug user. I went to college in the early seventies. Plenty of marijuana, hashish, LSD, mushrooms, and peyote cactus buttons. So my central nervous system is completely blown out, because all my brain receptors for analgesics and other types of sedation have been burned out long ago.

I've only had one colonoscopy so far, and they gave me almost twice the absolute maximum amount of sedation possible (on milligram per pound basis) I never went out, but at least the pain was dulled a bit. So I watched the entire procedure on the monitor, which was set up directly overhead. Pretty interesting to look at your insides in real time! But I DID feel every hard left turn when the scope had a tight corner to maneuver.

And it was fun f**ting away in public. I felt just like a man feels when he is proud of the noise and length of the rumbling thunder. It IS of course, a recovery room, and the nurses are probably used to much worse things. And you don't need a mop and pail to clean up gas!

Armadillo: ROTFLMAO! You are too funny! I don't have as lengthy a drug history as you (although I did smoke pot back in college) but I'm hard to sedate. Always have been. The last time I went to a dentist they tried to give me nitrous oxide and it had absolutely no effect on me whatsoever. The dentist was shocked...I think he actually said "geez, I'm giving you a dose high enough to knock out a horse!" and yet, there I was, wide-eyed and perky as ever. I have a very fast metabolism and I think my body just breaks down drugs faster than most people.

Is it really possible for your 'analgesic receptors' to be completely gone? Just curious...

The definitive way to test for this is by brain biopsy, usually a post-mortem kind of thing. Since I'm still using my brain, this question remains to be answered.

Current medical findings suggest that the number of receptors for dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrin are genetically determined. If they are compromised by repetitive drug use, they will no longer function as intended. This seems to be a permanent thing. But the damage from the amount of drug abuse and the length of drug use will vary from person to person. I guess I didn't make out so well.

LOL! Same here! I believe all of my past hallucengentic drug use has played into or triggered by anxiety disorder. I never thought about burning out the receptors. I had some cosmetic surgery a few months ago under "sedation" and I was yaking away the whole time. I remember the entire conversation and what music was playing in the surgery suite.

I'm getting off topic here, so if we can't into this any further, maybe I"ll start a new thread..but if what you say is true, then could prolonged use of an SSRI do the same thing? I know I'm nit-picking this a bit, but as a former chemistry teacher, I think it's fascinating. A lot of recreational drugs raise serotonin levels...the same thing that most anti-depressants do. Is there a potential or possibility of these legal pharmaceuticals compromising the numeber of neuronal receptors?

SSRI's increase the amount of serotonin available to the brain by BLOCKING the receptors. The antidepressant action of SSRIs is not thoroughly understood but is possibly due to the ability of SSRIs to block the uptake of serotonin, thereby providing higher levels of serotonin at the brain receptor site.

Serotonergic drugs like marijuana and other hallucinogens, work by ACTIVATING the receptors in a way so that the cascade goes onto overdrive and depletes the ability to produce neurochemicals. The brain tries to compensate by reducing the amount of working receptors, because the ability to produce transmitters seems to be limiting.

It's really not well understood. If you Google brain receptors and drug abuse, you'll get differing opinions based on the same research.

We sure are complicated creatures.

I had my first colonoscopy about a month ago. I was surprised how easy it was. The stuff to drink the day before wasn't anywhere near as bad as I thought it might be and wasn't too dramatic in effect!!! I was given a sedative before the procedure and I wasn't aware of anything at all. It was just like having a very restful sleep. I didn't have any discomfort or anything after. Results all clear too. I am sure it depends a great deal on the facility where they do it and the surgeon/practitioner but I won't be worried when I have my next one in about five years.