The worst bit is the moviprep after all who really wants to be visiting the loo every 5 minutes, the best bit is watching your insides on a big screen, what did he say everyone's a star for 15 minutes, now that is reality television.
It is important to mention, that the NHS and the German healthcare systems are very different and practices do vary widely. If colonoscopy is the only screening tool offered [ I don't know the answer to that ], then if it were me, I would have one. However, it is not a procedure without risk.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
When asked if I wanted to view it on the screen, I said could they put on Countdown instead.
And, to cheer you up, a proctologist is doing his ward round and reaches into his top pocket for a pen but pulls out a suppository instead. “Damn,” he says, “some arse has got my biro.”
I'm in France and years ago I did a back to nursing course in a French hospital. Sometimes I helped with the colonoscopies, usually when the patients were English so that I could translate. The patients were given a short acting anaesthetic which lasted 10 to 15 minutes so they were asleep for the worst of it. I have been told by English friends that they didn't have an anaesthetic in England. Is that true? Sounds very unpleasant.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Had one a few months back. As said the laxative bit and the not eating but drinking litres of water before hand was far worse than the procedure. Offered an anaesthetic, but turned it down. Allergic to most pain killers so preferable not to have the side effects from taking any. No pain, until after when the wind problem was a bit unpleasant to say the least. Polyps removed which is a good thing. Same letter as Steephill afterwards.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If colonoscopy is the only screening tool offered [ I don't know the answer to that ], then if it were me, I would have one. However, it is not a procedure without risk.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
And, to cheer you up, a proctologist is doing his ward round and reaches into his top pocket for a pen but pulls out a suppository instead. “Damn,” he says, “some arse has got my biro.”
In the sticks near Peterborough
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