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Fasting..should i be worried?

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beetroot

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Can anyone advise please..im due to go into hospital on monday for a colonoscopy and have to fast from Sunday morning. As i have only recently been diagnosed with diabetes type2 i am not sure how this will affect me especially as i am taking metformin now.

Do i need to check with my GP or the people performing the colonoscopy? or am i worrying over nothing really.
 
You could check with them, but Metformin shouldn't cause you any problems. In fact you can probably leave out the one that covers the fasting period.
Ring your team and ask them for advice if you are worried.
Hana
 
Thanks for the speedy response, i was just a bit concerned cos when i have had to do this, a couple of times already this year, then i always feel quite ill and nauseous (sp) and was now wondering if it could be to do with glucose/sugar levels. I dont fully understand how things are affected yet only being diagnosed last week but i am wandering around this forum and finding out lots already.
 
Hi beetroot,

I recently had a colonoscopy and biopsy. Although I don't take metformin anymore there was a piece on the instruction sheet to say that metformin should be stopped two days before the date of the colonoscopy.

Do you have to take picolax the day beforehand when you are fasting? If you do then please make sure you are near a toilet at all times. :oops:

Good luck with the outcome.

Catherine.
 
Thanks Catherine yes Picolax is to be included on the Sunday :oops: and this is my 4th this year so i remember its affects very well!!

Thanks for the advice re the metformin, i seem to have misplaced my information sheet but will try harder to find it now.

Hope your results were ok.
 
Hi beetroot,

I'm a Type 2 on metformin who has had loads of colonoscopies over the last few years. Off the top, I can't remember what I was told to do. However, on the paperwork that you will have been given there should be a number to phone the hospital to ask questions about such matters.

It certainly isn't a big issue but you ought to ask the questions of the people doing the colonoscopy.

Good luck with your test - I hope that everything goes OK. The Picolax isn't much fun - so you will know to make sure you don't stray more than a few yards from your toilet. The colonoscopy isn't a load of fun but no where near as bad as people expect them to be. Perhaps, it's just that I've had so many that I got used to having them. The last few times they've had to ask me to stop laughing because it made it difficult for them to see what they were looking for. They are likely to ask you whether or not you want a sedative. I've had them with and without a sedative and I'd much sooner have them without. However, you seem to be quite an expert on colonoscopies yourself.

Best Wishes - John
 
valattrevear said:
I am sooo sorry wallycorker, but I really need to know what you were laughing at during your colonoscopy :)
Val :wink:
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Hi Val - I ought to have explained that I suppose. If you aren't sedated and yet at the same time surrounded by a team of other people all talking about everything so normally, it seems quite normal to become involved in their day-to-day chit chat - even though it's you that's laid there with the camera up your backside. Perhaps, it's me that is a little bit odd - it might be the familiarity of having had som many colonoscopies.

Hope that explains the situation a little bit more but perhaps it doesn't. :lol:
 
That was a very reassuring post wallycorker, :D I do know what you mean, as the last op I had under a local anaesthetic was quite an hilarious event. :wink: I am relieved to know that's what it was for you!
Val
 
valattrevear said:
That was a very reassuring post wallycorker, :D I do know what you mean, as the last op I had under a local anaesthetic was quite an hilarious event. :wink: I am relieved to know that's what it was for you!
Val
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Glad that you understand. :D

Much better than being sedated in my opinion.
 
wallycorker said:
valattrevear said:
That was a very reassuring post wallycorker, :D I do know what you mean, as the last op I had under a local anaesthetic was quite an hilarious event. :wink: I am relieved to know that's what it was for you!
Val
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Glad that you understand. :D

Much better than being sedated in my opinion.
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For some strange reason I have always been able to cope with a colonoscopy, but need sedation for an endoscopy! :?
 
valattrevear said:
For some strange reason I have always been able to cope with a colonoscopy, but need sedation for an endoscopy! :?
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Val - It depends whether you mean a procedure with a flexible or rigid sigmoidoscope. I'm OK with the flexible but apparently it is essential to be put to sleep for the rigid.

The anaethetist came in to see me and explain things before I had my one and only rigid procedure and said something quite funny that often comes to my mind and still makes me laugh whenever I think about it. He said "I could tell you that it's going to be just like being asleep. However, I can assure you that if someone came and rammed one of these up your back passage when you were asleep then I can assure you that you would quickly wake up".

I'm glad that I wasn't conscious for that one! :lol:
 
wallycorker, no wonder you laugh during your procedures :lol: , that would have tickled me too :D .
I've only ever had the flexi type, but when asked to have the dratted thing down my throat, my whole body revolts. The "other place" procedure gives me less of an Oh no you don't rigid reaction.
Val
I've just thought, are we actually reassuring beetroot [the original poster] or not. :oops:
Most embarrassing moment, the chap who peered up my anal passage with some sort of tool, and announced in a most aggrieved tone," I can't see a **** thing up here". This for some reason sent me into a fit of the giggles, and it was contagious as both he and the nurse did the same, causing the whole preocedure to be aborted :oops:
 
Yes - I agree Val. However, the poster - beetroot - and everyone else could possibly be reassured that these situations can have a funny side. Also, I'm here ten years down the line and now been discharged completely after my problems. Moreover, in two or three years time, I'll be knocking on my GP's door to ask whether I ought to be going along for another check up - even if I have to pay for it privately. These situations are not a lot of fun in the first instance but - in my opinion - well worth doing if it means staying alive!

Good luck and best wishes to both yourself and beetroot.

John
 
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