Mammos and colonoscopies
Jenbooks,
I also read recently that the most important thing a mammo report should tell you is if your tissue is dense or not, because if it is, you should have a different test. I forget what it is called. My reports never say if my tissue is still dense now that I am well past menopause, so I have no idea, but I never was able to bring a baby to term, so it is possible.
I forgot to address your earlier question about colonoscopy prep. It almost killed me. It raised my blood pressure to 230/114. I was shaking like a leaf until I thought my teeth would break, with goosebumps all over me, and I still had another full bottle to drink. I called the ER and the triage nurse told me to cancel the test and eat something immediately. She also told me to call the GI doc even though it was 3 am. That idiot doctor actually asked me if I couldn't just keep going and hold out until my appt. at 8 am!!! Needless to say, I do not go to that GI doc anymore. I drank some milk and felt better almost immediately. My new GI doc told me at my last appt. that the stuff I took (Fleets) has been taken off the market because it caused fatal kidney failure. Now they tell me. My husband had no problem with it at all. My new GI doc is trying to convince me to try the newer stuff, but I told him I am "all doctored out" for now. I have to have Endoscopy once a year and that is bad enough, esp. since I can't take the pain med.
klutzo
Jenbooks,
I also read recently that the most important thing a mammo report should tell you is if your tissue is dense or not, because if it is, you should have a different test. I forget what it is called. My reports never say if my tissue is still dense now that I am well past menopause, so I have no idea, but I never was able to bring a baby to term, so it is possible.
I forgot to address your earlier question about colonoscopy prep. It almost killed me. It raised my blood pressure to 230/114. I was shaking like a leaf until I thought my teeth would break, with goosebumps all over me, and I still had another full bottle to drink. I called the ER and the triage nurse told me to cancel the test and eat something immediately. She also told me to call the GI doc even though it was 3 am. That idiot doctor actually asked me if I couldn't just keep going and hold out until my appt. at 8 am!!! Needless to say, I do not go to that GI doc anymore. I drank some milk and felt better almost immediately. My new GI doc told me at my last appt. that the stuff I took (Fleets) has been taken off the market because it caused fatal kidney failure. Now they tell me. My husband had no problem with it at all. My new GI doc is trying to convince me to try the newer stuff, but I told him I am "all doctored out" for now. I have to have Endoscopy once a year and that is bad enough, esp. since I can't take the pain med.
klutzo
