Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I am getting it with the same doctor, who unfortunately moved from a good facility to a crappy, disorganized medical group. Almost said fuck it and went elsewhere. Every time you call them, they transfer you to a "procedure line" where nobody ever answers the phone -- you just wait on hold endlessly until you hang up. Nobody calls you back if you leave a message. If you ask why this is the case, they claim "short staffed", but there are tons of complaints about this on review sites going back years, so it's bullshit.
Only reason I'm going to this place is because I liked the doctor, and also want the continuity of doing it with the same doctor as last time. Really wish she hadn't left the last group, which had a great facility with very nice staff. A little disorganized too, but nothing compared to this fail facility.
I got e-mailed the prep instructions today. Extremely different from last time, despite it being the same prep with the same doctor!
I called today for clarification, and they couldn't explain it. I got some office employee without real medical knowledge, and they couldn't transfer me to a nurse.
Most bothersome was the claim that you can't drink anything "after midnight", which is bullshit because my procedure is late morning. I asked how they can instruct "after midnight" when the premade instruction sheet doesn't know the specific time of my procedure, and they didn't have an answer for that (people can have them as early as 7am).
Finally I got out of them that you can actually drink up to 4 hours before the procedure, which is exactly what I was told last time, and consistent with other stuff I found online.
I'm basically trashing their prep instructions and doing the identical thing to last time, which worked great. I probably did over-drink water 4 hours beforehand last time, and apparently that's a little dangerous during the sedation to have done so, so I'll cut back this time on that. But everything else I'll do the same. It's the same doctor and the same prep type, and she was happy with my prep results last time, so why do anything differently?
My prediction is 3 polyps, 2 being precancerous, but none being large, and none being worse than low-grade precancerous (tubular). Last time two were mid-grade precancerous, one of which was quite large. But that had a lot more time to grow, as my last colonoscopy was 35 months ago, so they should be smaller this time.
Low chance they'll find it totally clear.