molly,
once again, so sorry for your ordeal.
had remembered how they didn't give you enough time to prep, that is really so important. i was worried when i woke the next morning and the bile kept coming out of me every 30 minutes, was wondering how i might get to the hospital ok, but then it stopped after an hour and a half, just in time to go to the hospital, and then no more, so all ok. being clean so important.
thanks for the info about the mucus and the blood, seems all normal. and the bleeding stopped very quickly anyway, always was a fast healer. my husband had a polyp removed and no blood, so that is what we had based it on. but really no different than what we women go through every month anyway, so not such a big deal.
will be asking doc about the mucus some more. fairly often before procedure. thought it might have been due to the polyps, but still now, 2 weeks later as well, just like before, so will keep pressing docs on the issue, anytime just a little hard there's mucus.
OK, TMI.......didn't start out that way, hard to avoid on this subject i suppose, if only i could be as humorous as dave barry about the whole thing
but he did leave us with a good message as to the colonoscopy's importance. in a way, consider myself fortunate that with my moderate gastro issues am checked more often (for IBD stuff) so get the cancer screening more often than others, that's a good thing, a very good thing. of course gastro issues not a good thing, but looking for the positive in it.
can you go back to england for your next colonoscopy? hope so.
i must admit, all of my procedures (both upper endoscopies, both colonoscopies) went very well really. have had very good gastroenterologists, and for that i'm thankful as well.
