Morning After (Prep Day)😱😱
My body is past its expiration date, way too old to have a colonoscopy, but I did have one and will never again. Above the red dots on my graphic, show my pain points from Just Being Old. The morning after Prep Day, I could barely stand and walk and getting up and down was a real PAIN. I had no problem with the nasty drink, at my age, a night of a thousand leg presses (get up/get down) and other things, was just too much for the joints. I am glad I did not read about the dangers of the test in older seniors.
I started the day after PREP night, already in pain.
At 1 PM they propped me on a bed made of concrete metal with 2-inch pad, with rollers. I have Arthurs-itis in tail bone, and it always hurts when lying on gurneys (think ER).
NO one, in ER, or when I have a bone scan, MRI, etc. ever believes me when I say I have a dowager hump, and I need two pillows because laying back, my head is about 5 inches from touching whatever I am laying on.
See the drawing? my head was not touching, both arms were propped on rails, one with the drip thingy needle in the top of the hand and because of pain in my bottom, I keep skootching tail bone forward to relieve pain, until soon my feet were hanging off the cart, up to the ankles, to relieve each pain, I bent knees, lowered knees.
This went on while I laid watching not one but two clocks, for FIFTY minutes, trussed and bound and propped improperly and in mortal pain. Yes, I did ask them for a 2nd pillow, they scrunched the one pillow and adjusted the bed higher which did not help at all.
At 1:55 they rolled me down a short hall, into a room that was just wide enough to hold the cart and not 1 but 4 women, poking, prodding, sticking thing on skin and one that propped me like a pretzel.
turned me on my left side which is my bad hip, bad knee and bad ankle, then pulled and twisted to prop be up with said bad legs, and said good night and I woke up at 3:08 and it was done.
The torture was not over. I tend to have opposite reactions to drugs, like steroids WIRE me and the whatever they gave me did the same thing. I hit the house running around cleaning and picking up and worked for an hour. No nap, no rest, and hurting bones, I was wired.
But wait, it gets worse. Watching a movie until bedtime, twice my left ankle got a horrid cramp in the joint, like a Charlie horse and I had to struggle to stomp my foot. I went to bed and slept 4 hours only and woke up at 1 am and was up all day the next day until I crashed at 7:30 pm and slept 9 hours straight.
I do not intend on ever, not never, not ever having another colonoscopy
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If you are wondering what dowagers hump is, read below. MINE is Genetic. from my maternal side. My Grandmother, her 5 sisters, my mother, her sister and all females in our family, all have the hump. Most of them are deceased and did not make it past 63. Aha! I made it to 80.
Apr 11, 2023 — A dowager's hump, a curve at the base of your neck, can cause extreme fatigue, back pain and headaches
try lying flat on you back when you look like this. Mine started in my early 20's and as I age I bend further forward
After all this, I had to wait 2 weeks for results with doctor. I went home with a paper that saidsmall gastric polyps
poor prep
severe pandiverticulosis...
To be continue
