Nurse cluezo here:
You 40ish Ajarners have been putting this thing off. I know you have. Well, it's easier than ever now ...
Git r done, save your life
Colonoscopy: Virtual Test Requires Four Pills Instead Of Laxatives At Mayo Clinic
August 27, 2012
The unpleasant "cleaning out" process required before undergoing that test we all love to hate just got a whole lot easier to swallow. A Mayo Clinic in Phoenix now requires patients to take just four pills instead of two or more liters of laxatives when getting a virtual colonoscopy.
Taking four pills of the laxative bisacodyl is a vast upgrade for anyone who's had the (dis)pleasure of downing liters of the extra-strength laxatives previously used to eliminate all waste from your gut. These tablets still leave the virtual colonoscopy's probe-assisted CT scan clear to search for any pre-cancerous polyps or other diseases potentially lying in wait in your colon and rectum.
It's an improvement that may encourage more post 50s to get virtual colonoscopies, now that one of the most unpleasant parts of the process has been eliminated, said Dr. C. Daniel Johnson, chair of the department of radiology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
"Our hope is that this will make people less anxious and more likely to get screened and will ultimately result in fewer deaths from colorectal cancer," Johnson noted in a press release.
If the four-pill prep becomes the standard, we doubt many will miss taking cleaning agents like MoviPrep, a "nuclear laxative" that tastes like "a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon," as humorist Dave Barry described the colonoscopy brew:
In Thailand they actually put you out and you must spend the night with someone in your room to watch you.
This is funny:
Dave Barry: A journey into my colon -- and yours - Dave Barry - MiamiHerald.com
Colonoscopy: Virtual Test Requires Four Pills Instead Of Laxatives At Mayo Clinic
^high fiber diet'll take of that... hey cluez ,you might have a tsunami coming at you, there was a big eatrthquake in Mexico or somewhere down there...
fred
You're about due for a butt job, aren't you, fred?Originally Posted by fred flintstone
---Update---
Haven't heard anything but I'd welcome the change of pace a tsunami brings ...
Last edited by cluezo; 28th August 2012 at 12:54. Reason: spelling
maybe one day....i'm not real big on doctors.
i sitting though a 100MPH hurricaine right now. the whole country's shut down
In Korea??
yep. i'm at the front side of it now. Alot wind, no rain yet tho. I heard a bunch of glass breaking next door. its a ghost town.
It's a typhoon then, right? Slanties call them typhoons. They are fun!
Typhhon...dae poong, if your a slope
looks like a hurricaine to me, been through enuff of them
Experienced one in Vietnam. We had a blast letting the wind whip us around. I remember squealing in delight. We did not give a shit that day about anything. Just played in the storm. Wonderful.
^a hurricaine in a war zone...guess they called time-out on the war for a few days huh?
i'm surprized i still got power
Yeah - time out for them too. A natural cease-fire.
There was an earthquake swarm in California yesterday that overloaded the USGS seismic sensors. Only happened twice before in recorded history in the 1970s and 1950s. All moderate strength quakes up to 5.4.
That'd loosen your bowels.
We could all sit outside on banana lounges discussing the best way to rebuild a 4WD transmission and agree, through shared stories of conquests supporting our assertions, that there is no basis to the proposition that those least assured of their persuasions are the first to condemn others for theirs.
2 major hurricaines making landfall today and a series of big earthquakes.
7.4 earthquake in el salvador
i just heard someone telling me to build him an ark.
Last edited by fred flintstone; 28th August 2012 at 14:03.
Better hunker that trailer down.
Better not bow away my little place
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