Posted by corafree on July 25, 2006, at 19:59:19
In reply to Re: COLONOSCOPY PREP'AIR'ATION COUNTDOWN » corafree, posted by james K on July 25, 2006, at 14:46:03
<I have ulcerative colitis, so I unfortunately know some about this issue. Some of the med restrictions have to do with bleeding. Like aspirin or other nsaids. They don't want you to bleed out if they poke you, or take biopsies or remove polyps. (this should happen).>
Sorry. Hmmm ... I'm on an NSAID (Voltaren) and that isn't even on the list. I didn't know they could take anything or remove anything w/o my consent. I thought this was just a 'look see'. Silly me ... yeah, I guess I'd like them to get any bad stuff out. Don't want to go through this again.
<They will give you some degree of pain med and a hypnotic. If you are already on these meds, the dose wont be noticable to you, plus they could accidently overdose you. My last one, because I was on long-term klonopin at the time, my gastero went ahead and used an anesthisiologist to put me all the way out. This saved me some of the weirdness of the procedure, but I didn't get to look at the tv screen and see, and I missed the cocktail, the most fun you can have in a hospital.>
Did you have to stop Klonopin prior to the colo? I know you can't 'just stop' Klonopin!!!
<I see no reason to detox, just make sure the doc completely understands what you take and that your pain and safety are going to be taken into account.>He isn't concerned w/ my pain. He was just concerned that I was taking a narcotic. He gave me a 'talking to', saying, "I wouldn't give you one. Doctors are losing their licenses for prescribing narcotics!" He went on to say he would prescribe an anti-spasmodic, but 'wouldn't' because I'm on Valium and that should work like an anti-spasmodic.(?)
Nope, he didn't bother to ask why I was on the narcotic or for a copy of my MRI reports or anything.
If he/they were to push my head in a certain direction, he would cause complete break-through pain, or worse.
I will be sure that my daughter tells him prior to the surgery. I'm glad you brought this up. In fact, I should copies of all my MRI reports and have them put on 'his' chart.
Why am I, the patient, always doing all the work? It's the same w/ my PCP. Feel like a numbbutt.
Tks, cf
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