Hello all!
So, I spent last weekend at the hospital (in the hotel, not as an inpatient, thankfully) to have a few tests done. The upshot so far is that the colonoscopy shows I am most definitely cancer free in that zone which gives us all so much trouble. Five and a half years, more or less, since the original resection! The relief is huge. I am still waiting on the results of the full torso CT scan, though. I have some worrying symptoms, and am not going to count any chickens until that comes back all clear. Still, I am so glad I can count bowel cancer out once again.
Interestingly, though, the consultant doing the procedure volunteered an opinion without my prompting at all. He said it was his view that I have LARS. Now, I have been convinced of this for quite a while, a couple of years at least, but this has been the first time a doctor who is looking after my care has actually said as much. So now it is official. What this does mean is that, now it is in my medical notes and accepted, I can start getting some HELP with the situation, and not spend so many days popping Imodium instants so much that all my food tastes vile. It's progress... of a sort.
I also had the new bowel prep drinks for the colonoscopy. Not moviprep this time. The new stuff claimed to be in mango, and fruit punch, flavours. They were both truly horrifyingly disgusting. But my squeezy sports bottle trick meant I got both down in just two gulps each, so the torment was blessedly short lived. Also, they were 500 ml each, not a litre each, which helped. It did not work as fast, nor as effectively, as moviprep though. I am unconvinced that this Plenvu stuff that the NHS here is using is in any way an improvement...
Watch this space for CT results, when they show up!
Robin
So far , so good stoatlord . And I wish you every success with the next part .
Gosh time flies.
It does not seem so long ago when you first joined in the chat here !
Take care ,
Court
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