Flexi sigmoidoscopy

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Hello Some advice please, can’t get through to the hospital even after an hour of calling.
I have a flexi sigmoidoscopy at 9.45 tomorrow morning, only got my letter today which says if I’m on blood thinners then to call them as I may need to stop them. I’m on Apixaban 5mg twice a day, had my last one this morning. I have to do an enema 2 hours before I go, obviously don’t want to do that to get to the hospital and they say they can’t do the procedure!
Any thoughts or advice would be really helpful please xxx

  • Hello Ivymay

    I am also on Apixaban and unfortunately different hospitals have different criteria.  I recently had a sigmoidoscopy and didn't take Apixaban on the day of my procedure and all was fine.  If you can't get through to the hospital have a look on their website under sigmoidoscopy, there is a chance that it will have instructions on there.

    Hope everything goes as planned and all is well.

    Irene xx