In my experience, the prep is the worst part of things. Over the last 25 years or so I have been through this a few times and sometimes polyps were found, sometimes not. The important part is to get the checkup as a matter of preventative health care. Thanks for sharing your experience–if only one of your readers decides to follow your example, that is a good thing.
My GI guy does colonoscopies on Tuesday and Thursday; he’s done thousands. Nice work if you can get it!
But, I really appreciate my anesthesiologist. I cracked wise on the table and Dr. GI said, “Really, Bill? Put him out.” And, conk, I was gone. Woke up fresh as a daisy and full of gas, bloated like the Hindenburg.
What was my crime? Well, the standard question doctors ask before a procedure is, “Do you know why you are here?” I answered, “I was driving by and saw a sign that said, “Free accordion lessons, so here I am.” No sense of humor, doctors.
steve oberskisays
Topologically speaking the digestive tract, starting at the mouth and ending at the anus, is on the outside of the body.
chigau (違う) says
Good to hear.
Reginald Selkirk says
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Lynna, OM says
Yay! Good news PZ.
Walter Solomon says
Let’s drink to your clean colon.
robro says
Excellent news, and glad to hear it, PZ. That probably means you don’t have to go through the ordeal again for a few years.
drksky says
Hearing don’t come back for ten years is a hallelujah moment
moxie says
that’s a load off your mind!
(going through all my colonoscopy jokes)
steve1 says
10 years! Im just going to have to take uo your slack. I get them every year.
Akira MacKenzie says
THESE PIPES… ARE… CLEAN!
zygoptera says
Great news! Glad to hear!
moarscienceplz says
Happy Post-poop day, PZ!
foolishleader says
Wait so for a brief period of time nobody could rightly call you full of shit?
Reginald Selkirk says
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Send your children through that hollow tube, to be pooped out into the world.
nomdeplume says
Yay!
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chigau (違う) says
Reginald Selkirk
That’s good news, too.
tigerprawn says
In my experience, the prep is the worst part of things. Over the last 25 years or so I have been through this a few times and sometimes polyps were found, sometimes not. The important part is to get the checkup as a matter of preventative health care. Thanks for sharing your experience–if only one of your readers decides to follow your example, that is a good thing.
Matt G says
I am a strange tube.
Reginald Selkirk says
Speaking of hollow tubes
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Doc Bill says
My GI guy does colonoscopies on Tuesday and Thursday; he’s done thousands. Nice work if you can get it!
But, I really appreciate my anesthesiologist. I cracked wise on the table and Dr. GI said, “Really, Bill? Put him out.” And, conk, I was gone. Woke up fresh as a daisy and full of gas, bloated like the Hindenburg.
What was my crime? Well, the standard question doctors ask before a procedure is, “Do you know why you are here?” I answered, “I was driving by and saw a sign that said, “Free accordion lessons, so here I am.” No sense of humor, doctors.
steve oberski says
Topologically speaking the digestive tract, starting at the mouth and ending at the anus, is on the outside of the body.
I try not to think about that too often.