Joined: 24 October 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 4536 Gender: Female
Posted: 07 January 2008 at 3:24pm | IP Logged
I'm still waiting for blood tests to come back and my app for the colonscopy to come through but I know the treatment is steriods suppositories. If anyone has had this horrible condition, please can you tell me how long it takes for the steroids to take effect ?
Joined: 11 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 5845 Gender: Female
Posted: 07 January 2008 at 6:07pm | IP Logged
I have ulcerative colitus and have used steroid suppositories on numerous occasions and also taken oral steroids for it. The suppositories normally come in a canister of foam that one squirt is one dose. They come with an applicator, you have to be a gymnast to insert the nozzle and squirt. The worst bit about them is holding the liquid in as it makes you feel like you need the toilet which isn't pleasant. You normally use them at night as you go to bed. They work very quickly normally by the next morning you will find an improvement. Sometimes you have to take 2 or 3 doses a day which can be awkward.
Oral steriods work by the next day as Steph said but you will be zinging by the 3rd day of taking them and sleeping can be a problem. If I can be any help just shout I have had loads of colonoscopies and sigmoidoscopies they aren't that pleasant.
Joined: 11 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 5845 Gender: Female
Posted: 07 January 2008 at 8:07pm | IP Logged
Is it defeinately a colonoscopy or a sigmoidoscopy you will be having. With a Colonoscopy they look all around the large intestine (large bowel) with a sigmoidoscopy they only look up to the bend in your bowel sometimes not as far as that. Depending on which you have depends on what sort of bowel cleanse they will use before hand. With a colonoscopy you will normally be given something called fleet or picalax which you drink the day before normally one in the morning and one in the evening. You can't eat all day and you are only allowed to drink clear fluids. It can make you feel queasy and a bit light headed. It will make you go to the toilet all day so you won't be able to leave the house for long if at all. With a sigmoidoscopy you will just have the lower part of your bowel cleansed which will be done with an enema about 30 mins before your procedure.
With a colonoscopy you will be mildly sedated and shouldn't remember anything when the sedative wares off. With a sigmoidoscopy they normally use no sedation but if you request it of the dr before hand most will allow you to have something to help relax you.
Joined: 09 December 2006 United Kingdom Posts: 993 Gender: Female
Posted: 08 January 2008 at 4:49pm | IP Logged
My mum has had what they said have been blockages but has been in terrible pain it seems to have cleared up now but they are doign tests etc tomorrow she has to follow a strict diet and take 2 doses of laxative liek u said sam i think shes having something called a berium enima?!
Joined: 11 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 5845 Gender: Female
Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:47pm | IP Logged
Berium enema is slightly different, they give you an enema of barium which shows up on scan or xray and then take pictures to see if there are any blockages. Not sure how old your Mum is but older people can suffer from diverticulitus which is where inflamation can occur in the folds of the bowel either through infection or food getting trapped, it can cause huge amount of pain. Some people can be treated medically Keiths Dad has medicine for it or sometimes as a last resort they can operate. Hope your Mum is ok tomorrow.
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