>----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Long" <creative@enter.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 9:08 PM
Subject: Sally- colonoscopies
> Thanks for the good news Sally.
> If I don't soon get help for my other problems soon I may have to check
into
> the Colonoscopy or Endoscopy to check out my hiatal hernia and other
stomach
> problems to see why I can't take any pain meds or anti-inflammatory pills.
> I sure hope they also do the Endoscopy the new way, wasn't painful but
very
> uncomfortable years ago.
>
> I can't keep doing this pain thing cold turkey. It is destroying me as a
> person and doesn't allow me to have a life of any kind other than my
> computer which has also gotten hard now because now sitting also hurts.
> I go to the hip & back surgeon's office on Dec. 3rd and I sure hope they
> have figured things out and can finally help me!
> If not, they need to fix my hiatal hernia & ulcer if they can so that
maybe
> I can at least take pain pills (if that is the cause). I haven't concerned
> myself with these since my other problems are more important right now and
> can't have everything operated on!
>
> I go for another Doppler test on the 5th and I sure hope the calcified
> artery hasn't gotten any worse....I CAN'T lose my leg, couldn't handle
that
> at all!
>
> Maybe you had Versed for your Colonoscopies which is an amnesia drug.
> I had it for my epidural injections and didn't remember anything at all
> although they say your are really awake?!
>
> I had a central line (Picc Line) in the underside of my upper arm and
going
> through my chest to my heart for my 6 weeks of antibiotics after my hip
> surgeries last year.
> JEAN
>
> "Birthdays are good for you: the more you have the longer you live"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org]On Behalf
> Of Sally Grigg
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 7:29 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
> Subject: colonoscopies/Jean from Sally
>
> Dear Jean, I'm happy to be able to give good news. I've had several
> colonoscopies in the last few years and didn't feel a thing. I was told
> I was sedated, but I don't even rermember that or anything. I wasn't
> groggy afterwards either. So I think that things have changed and most
> people can schedule one without fear of pain. Love, Sally
>
> >
>