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Colonoscopy fiasco and terrified now, ADVICE?

Digestive Health | Last Active: Aug 21, 2023 | Replies (8)
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I've had luck eating raisin bran most mornings and using Miralax as needed.
You might get your current Gastro doctor to call in a prescription strength ointment and anal suppositories for hemorrhoids.
Then check into finding another Gastro doctor connected to hospital. You must do the prep to the "T" in order to have a successful colonoscopy procedure.

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user_ch783e933 | @user_ch783e933 | Aug 20, 2023

My "current Gastro doctor" is incommunicado, unavailable for comment, impossible to talk to, can't even make an appointment: his staff STINKS, beyond stinks, and they're not "his staff" since he's in a practice with a GI doctor who's been around for 30 years. I called to make an appt. last Wednesday, of course you can't speak to an actual person, only machines, so I left a message. Not a particularly friendly one. And not one call back, I said I needed an appt., not one call back at all Thursday or Friday. Imagine if something goes wrong during that procedure? No one answers your call.

As for ointment etc., PCP prescribed it. I'm afraid of the prep and what it will do to those things, never had them before. It took weeks for them to clear up and I lost five pounds in the process. I can't eat bran: fructan. I'm working on using miralax to keep the bowels flowing freely, haven't figured out how best to use it without causing too much BM.

I found another GI doctor associated with the hospital where I get all my imaging done but I haven't met him, haven't even called his office. Because his office is IN the hospital, this is better should something go wrong. Also, this is a huge corporate practice that spent literally millions rebuilding this hospital so there's always someone to talk to and always someone on call.

Let me point out here: the GI "doctor" who did my third colonoscopy in 2019 might have killed me, he still could have killed me. He deliberately kept information from me regarding the nature of the polyps he removed: one was tubulovillous, the other was sessile, both are known to be precancerous. There was no dysplasia but tubulovillous COME BACK 60% of the time and THAT one was in the same location as the first one removed in 2012. He NEVER TOLD ME ANYTHING ABOUT THIS. When I got his notes, I saw he had a difficult time with my colonoscopy, my colon is "corrugated" according to him. Odd that the doctor before him, who did TWO colonoscopies for me, never complained about that. THEN he told my then PCP (another lousy doctor) that instead of colonoscopy I should have Cologuard tests: well known for positive false results AND won't remove a dangerous polyp, will it. THE MAN IS A MURDERER.

So trusting another GI doctor is going to be next to impossible.

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