Hi Everyone, I had my colonoscopy yesterday, and I am happy to report they found nothing but internal hemorrhoids. Imagine my surprise because I felt for sure that I had at least polyps and if not polyps, than diverticulous. My GI doctor said none of it. An endoscopy was also performed which he said...

So for this past month , I have had this dry cough. It actually goes away when I lay down. Anyway, no one knows what is causing it. It's not from a cold or an any other infection. It just didn't occur to me until tonight. My colonoscopy is tomorrow.

I just sent a prayer up for you Hopegirl <3 <3 <3

Thank you so much for answering. Hugs right back to you. The thing is, my GI is so busy that they most likely won't answer their phones on a Monday and by the time I can get into contact with them it will already be late afternoon, well past the time I should have started my colon prep. So long as m...

Can I choose which tye of colon prep to use? My doctor has me using prescription prep and I didn't realize it until now. I like the miralax and gatorade prep. Do GI doctors care which one you use? I will make sure my bowels are empty. I would call and ask them but they are closed on the weekend and ...

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Has anyone here ever had very tiny black balls or specs (or whatever you want to call them) in their otherwise normal looking stool occasionally before they were diagnosed? I had it for years off and on and never thought any of it, until all my symptoms started.

No problem Sunflower. It was initially quite bright red blood but only small traces visible. Over a month or so it progressed to include darker blood visible on stools. I would be cautious making any predictions based on visual symptoms however (or indeed any self-diagnosis), im not sure if you can...

NHMike wrote:They did a CT when I went to the ER and detected a mass and did a colonoscopy to confirm cancer. My mass was large though.

Thank you mike

Hi Sunflower, I’m sorry I’m posting here rather than replying to your message because it seems like as a new member I’m not allowed to message you directly yet. Let me know if you’d like to ask me anything here or in another thread. Thanks Hi Robster, thank you for being gracious enough in your oth...

Thank you so much everybody for all of your input. There are no words to thoroughly thank you all for responding, after everything you all have been through. Extremely gracious of you all.

My husband's rectal cancer was detected during his ER visit CT scan. Although cancer was not mentioned on the report, a suspicion was noted. The wording was something like this. "wall thickening, tissue density in the rectal area. Colonoscopy or rectal endoscopy is suggested given the concern ...

Posted here about a week ago and I have one more question: A quick recap: Rectal bleeding intermittently since June. Pain in very left lower abdomen. almost upper pelvic that hasn't gone away, when the bleeding started. Colonoscopy is scheduled for November 6th or 13th. Very far away. Living in cons...

I am not sure but whatever you do, make sure the frankicense is pure and not synthetic. I order all my essential oils from doterra. 100% pure grade

If you need to go to the emergency room, please go to a different ER. I'm so sorry they dismissed you like that.

I can’t answer the question about the soreness, but I do think they will allow you to use a different bowel prep. I had a colonoscopy yesterday (clear!) and I used Suprep. I got so nauseated and ended up vomiting it back up after the second dose. When I told the nurse this she said to talk to the d...