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10-02-2011, 01:01 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Pagosa Springs
Posts: 3,711
M.O.C. #3120
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Ozz,
According to my doctor, diverticulitis is very common, in fact I had a colonoscopy this summer, and got a good education about those "not so fun to talk about" medical terms.
Had a colonoscopy, my friend? It could save your life!
Does your doctor know that the antibiotics are slowing you down so much?
Get well, and enjoy that retirement!
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10-02-2011, 02:21 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Salem
Posts: 7,528
M.O.C. #2283
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Had a colonoscopy, my friend? It could save your life!
Thats very good advise for all of us. I had a friend who wouldn't have one even after his wife made an appointment for him. Buried him this summer.
Lynwood
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10-02-2011, 03:56 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Sunshine
Posts: 1,445
M.O.C. #538
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Bobby: Sitting in Rocky Top right now. Trying to escape the outlaws in two long weeks. Headed to Winter Quarters in AZ.
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10-03-2011, 04:49 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Leona
Posts: 6,382
M.O.C. #2059
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Just checked the forum to see your gizzard is in an uproar. Had a bout with that some years ago, but it seems to have gone away. Maybe yours will too. Had to watch what I eat for a few years. I am not a doctor, but my doctors encouraged me to take probiotics regularly to maintain colon health and change them to another type or brand after each bottle runs out. Good health to you, going forward.
The colostomy experience is not at all like the ghastly old proctoscope procedure. Nothing to it. They clean you out, give you enough Valium to put you in lala land, and you wake up and go home.
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10-03-2011, 05:04 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: K.C.
Posts: 11,731
M.O.C. #5980
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Thanks guys, appreciate the good suggestions and advice. I did have one done a few years ago, the most painful experience I have ever had, no meds at all, he had problems doing it, maybe it was him, or the snake he used. In talking to people after it was done I could find no one that ever had it done without some kind of painkiller.
I have had two 'Virtual' colonoscopy's done since, (I paid for them, to check all my innards, heart also, just as a preventive measure, Insurance wouldn't pay) and the PET scan a few days ago since then. Better than nothing.
Stiles, glad you recovered from it, good to hear that. I am having undesirable side-effects from the antibiotics, but I will tough it out, many folks have much worse problems. (I will have to look up Probiotcis..)
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10-03-2011, 06:25 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Leona
Posts: 6,382
M.O.C. #2059
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Ozz, what probiotics do is to restore the good bacteria your gut needs to function properly. Antibiotics destroy those too. Helps you get the proper balance back. Before we discovered that Dianna was gluten intolerant, she was constantly fighting intestinal upheaval. Doctors were treating IBS and infection in her body elsewhere. A smarter doctor gave her a more accurate diagnosis of the problem and got her on probiotics. Since then I have started also and from a digestive system prospective, feel on a more even keel. You may know about all this, but let me not assume.
Gee, it sounds like you doctor was a vet. Both my wife and I would call the experience "painless". The most disagreeable part was getting cleaned out the night before.
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