(Mar 14, 2024 02:25 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Booyah! Thank you Science! Never had a colonoscopy and have been relying on the stool sample method for years now. Seems we can all be spared that grueling indignity in the near future.
I had one colonoscopy (routine) and never want to again. I wasn't sedated or under anaesthesia and it was uncomfortable as hell. The snakey thing with a camera on the end doesn't hurt, but they inflate your large intestine with gas and that causes the mother of all abdominal cramps. But I survived and no horrible lesions were found.
I did have super-intense (and loud) farts for rest of the day as the gas was gradually expelled again. Embarrasing.
But nope, I've been avoiding it ever since that day and my doctor seems ok with that. They send me the stool sample kit every year.