Colonography

Hi I'm Debbie I'm 63 and been experiencing really bad pains in my bowels with bleeding and bloating I've lost 5 stone unintentionally and I've now got a colonography booked for 28th Feb I'm terrified of taking the gastrografin and having the test done please any help would be appreciated I'm thinking g of just backing out and ending it all I've had enough xx

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  • Hi Debbie, 

    I've been experiencing the same symptoms,  after finding blood in my poo and high inflammation. 
    Within 2 weeks I've had a colonoscopy mri and a ct and ctc scan.just waiting on the results.

    The gastrogaffin medicine was not nice tasting at all, but there's not much of it to take.. I flushed mine down with water straight away. please don't back out. It could save your life x


     

  • Hi thankyou for your reply dizziehead did the gastrografin make you unwell , and was the air pumped into you bad xx

  • Hi ... it made me gag a little, but didn't make me feel unwell. It did make me go toilet after a few hours. They was lovely at the hospital, the air goes in slowly and there a machine that you can see it going in, it's all measured and monitored. Slight discomfort, but no pain. I was worried about going, but was all really ok . I'm just waiting on  The results now.

    it's been 6 days since the last scan x

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  • Hi ... it made me gag a little, but didn't make me feel unwell. It did make me go toilet after a few hours. They was lovely at the hospital, the air goes in slowly and there a machine that you can see it going in, it's all measured and monitored. Slight discomfort, but no pain. I was worried about going, but was all really ok . I'm just waiting on  The results now.

    it's been 6 days since the last scan x

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