what is female colonoscopy, full details and a female experience of colonoscopy

Female colonoscopy is a procedure in which a thin, flexible medical instrument, approximately 1 cm in diameter, is passed through the anus into the rectum and into the large intestine, allowing the doctor to observe the internal conditions of the colon and large intestine.

Indications:

Unexplained lower gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic diarrhea, abdominal masses, colorectal polyps, inflammatory diseases of the large intestine such as ulcerative colitis, chronic colon, colon cancer, etc.

Contraindications:

1. Endoscopic examination should not be performed when the anal canal and rectum are narrow and the endoscope cannot be inserted.

2. Patients with symptoms of peritoneal irritation, such as intestinal perforation, peritonitis, etc., are contraindicated in undergoing this examination.

3. Avoid female colonoscopy in case of acute anorectal infection or painful lesions, such as anal fissure, perianal abscess, etc.

4. Women should not be examined during menstruation and should be examined with caution during pregnancy.

5. People who are elderly, frail, have severe hypertension, anemia, coronary heart disease, or heart and lung dysfunction should not undergo endoscopic examination.

6. This examination is contraindicated in patients who are suspected of having perforation, intestinal fistula or extensive abdominal adhesions in the early stage after abdominal or pelvic surgery.

Is female colonoscopy painful?

It is painless. It is a non-invasive examination. Generally, you can choose ordinary colonoscopy or painless colonoscopy. You need to take catharsis drugs before female colonoscopy, and you also need to sign before the operation. It is better to insert the colonoscope through the anus to help the doctor observe whether there is bleeding, lumps, polyps, ulcerative colitis, etc. in the intestine. If necessary, a pathological biopsy can also be taken.

What are the precautions for women to have female colonoscopy?

Condition analysis: Women should avoid menstruation when doing colonoscopy, and should do it within 3 to 7 days after menstruation. Avoid eating spicy food one week before the colonoscopy. Fast the night before the examination. You can drink warm water or sugar and salt water appropriately. If the patient is doing a painless female colonoscopy, patients with hypertension cannot take reserpine. On the day of the colonoscopy, food residues in the intestines must be emptied to ensure the accuracy of the examination results.

A 38-year-old middle-aged woman’s experience of doing a regular colonoscopy

Well…what should I say? I may have a delusion of being sick, or I may be afraid of death. Whenever I feel unwell, I will search online on Baidu and Zhihu for cases with the same symptoms, and then compare them one by one to see how many of the symptoms I have, and then go to the hospital for a series of tests!

Last Thursday, when I was at work, I suddenly felt a sharp pain near my groin in my left lower abdomen, and there was also a feeling of swelling in my anus. I thought I was going to have diarrhea, so I quickly grabbed the toilet paper and rushed to the toilet. (Speaking of this, I’ll digress: I’ve had a sensitive stomach since I was a child. As long as I have an irregular diet for a long time or my stomach gets cold, I will have acid reflux, diarrhea, and bloating.) So I thought it was because I was wearing too few clothes and got cold, and it should be fine after a few diarrheas! However.

I didn’t poop once after three flushes, and it was getting more and more painful. That I cried because of the pain. I was afraid that I had other diseases, so I quickly called my husband. My husband quickly came and dragged me to the hospital for emergency examination. First, blood tests, then abdominal CT, but after a series of operations, my stomach didn’t hurt again, and the doctor didn’t find any problems. Instead, the blood test results showed that the red blood cell count was high at 425 (normal is 100-300).

The doctor asked me to go to the hematology department and then the gynecology department, but I had just seen the gynecology department 2 months ago and everything was normal! I asked the doctor if the CT scan of my intestines showed anything wrong? Should I do a female colonoscopy? The doctor was helpless and told me to see the hematology department first! I said okay and went to the hematology department to register and see the doctor. The doctor asked me a lot of questions and told me to drink more boiled water and come back for a checkup in a week! I said okay!

But the idea of ​​doing a colonoscopy kept popping up in my mind. After I came back, I started searching for information about colonoscopy online. I saw many people saying that ordinary female colonoscopy was painful and painful like giving birth. I was very curious. After all, for someone who has given birth to two children naturally and had two ordinary gastroscopy and didn’t feel that uncomfortable, shouldn’t I also experience female colonoscopy?

And I’m almost 40 years old and feel more at ease after a checkup… So after a follow-up check a week later. I found the gastroenterologist and said I wanted to do an ordinary colonoscopy and asked him to give me a receipt. The doctor asked me where I felt uncomfortable, and I said that I sometimes felt a dull pain in my lower left abdomen. The gynecological examination and gastroscopy were fine, and I wanted to see my intestines! The doctor gave me a receipt!

Actually, we originally planned to meet on Monday afternoon, but I had urgent work to do so I didn’t go, and changed the appointment to Thursday afternoon. However, during these four days I almost only ate clear soup noodles, steamed buns, and stewed eggs. I didn’t eat any vegetables, fruits, or meat. The only meat dishes were fish balls and crab sticks. Then on Wednesday morning I had a bowl of vegetarian noodle soup, stewed eggs and a small amount of fish at noon, plus a fist-sized egg cake, and in the evening I drank a big bowl of pork ribs and lotus root soup!

Because I was always worried, I didn’t sleep very well on Wednesday night. I woke up at 5 a.m. on Thursday. When I woke up, I saw that I had only slept for 5 hours. No, I had to sleep for a while. Only by maintaining adequate sleep can I have good physical strength! I was confused for a while and woke up again at 7:20. I got up to boil water and opened mannitol . This thing is very sweet and easy to drink, but it feels sweet after drinking it. And drinking a bottle on an empty stomach and then drinking 800 bottles of water is really nauseating and vomiting, not to mention walking. I want to vomit more when I move.

I hurriedly watched Douyin on my phone to divert my attention. After more than ten minutes, I felt better and continued to drink water. This time I couldn’t help it. I immediately felt nauseous after taking a big sip of water. I hurried to the bathroom. As soon as I got to the door of the bathroom, I couldn’t help but spray it up. The scene can be imagined by you, the audience, in Stephen Chow’s ” Flirting Scholar ” “Duichuanchang” spraying blood!

After spraying, I immediately used the shower head to flush the bathroom! Then I started to boil the second pot of hot water to prepare for the second bottle. I mixed 1500 grams of water in the second bottle, and finally drank less than 1000 grams. Anyway, when I sat on the toilet, I pooped all yellow water, without residue. I thought it should be OK, so I didn’t want to drink it! My stomach was bloated to death, and I didn’t feel hungry! Then I took a shower and asked my husband to take me to the hospital!

At 2:35 pm, I was the first to enter the examination room. There were two young nurses and a male doctor of my age. I calmly followed the beautiful nurse’s instructions, took off my pants and lay on the bed. The nurse covered my stomach with a small blanket and disinfected my anus. The male doctor came over and asked me if I had any symptoms for the examination. I said nothing, but I had lower abdominal pain some time ago and wanted to have an examination. The doctor said it was a normal physical examination, right?

I said yes, he said it was good to have such awareness, and then the doctor opened my anus and I started to poke the colonoscope in. I felt that the doctor didn’t poke it in the first time, so I asked: Doctor, is it because I have hemorrhoids and it’s hard to enter. The doctor said while the examination was over, and he pokes in, and slips into my back garden, and then a wicked thought suddenly appeared in my mind, those who like the back garden really have pleasure? Isn’t it like now that I feel like I’m going to poop? Um… I’m off topic, let’s continue… Um… I may be the most miserable patient who has undergone female colonoscopy on Zhihu! The following is the dialogue description:

2:38 Colonoscopy was started.

2:42 The doctor said to the nurse: “What’s going on? Doesn’t it look like he’s out of breath?!”

Then he asked me, “Do you feel bloated?”

I said it doesn’t expand and there is no feeling of being inflated!

The doctor said: Wait a minute, I’ll unplug it and try another socket: (emm…

Do you feel the rise now?

I replied: “No, it’s just a swelling feeling at the anus!”

What’s going on? Pull it out and take a look

So the doctor pulled out the half-inserted colonoscope. I was so drunk. It was already 2:45! I was worried whether I could not have the examination today, but the doctor said it was OK, there was gas! He asked me not to move and inserted it again. This time my stomach was bloated and it hurt a little. This pain was really like the pain of diarrhea after eating something bad, but it only lasted for a few seconds and I wanted to fart and poop… I told the doctor about my feelings, and the doctor said it was normal, the end of the scope, and now I will withdraw the scope and take a look!

I haven’t even felt the turn yet? Is it because my intestines are too short?”

The doctor said gently: “It’s not that your intestines are short, it’s because your intestines are very cooperative. Your intestines are fine. There’s nothing wrong. Look.”

Then I went to see the doctor. While looking at it, I asked the doctor if the yellow liquid in the female colonoscopy was because I didn’t clean my intestines well enough, and whether it would affect the examination. The doctor said that the cleaning was not very good, but it was okay without any debris, and it was very clear. I saw two small things standing up, so I asked the doctor if they were polyps. The doctor said no, it was just ordinary mucus.

I asked how to distinguish them, and he sprayed a little on that area, and the color of that area became darker, and the blood vessels and other things were all black. The doctor said, look, if it is a polyp, it will not be reflected like this. I asked what polyps look like? ! The doctor smiled and said that you don’t have polyps here, how can I teach you to see! Oh…Okay! The doctor showed me where he was looking at while looking at it…

“Hey… why is there no air again?! Xiao Liu~ Xiao Liu~ Can you help me find the socket again?”

At this moment, a thousand horses were running through my heart. I informed my husband on WeChat while saying, “Doctor, is your equipment too ineffective? Fortunately, I have a good mental state, otherwise the patient would be scared to death.”

The doctor said: “This situation will not affect the examination, don’t worry, it will be fine soon!”

As I was speaking, I got angry and my stomach felt like it was going to explode. I saw on the projector that my intestines were stretched out again!

At the end, the doctor said that I have a little hemorrhoids, but they are very small and I don’t need to worry about it! Everything is fine in the intestines, and I can check it every few years after I turn 40!

The whole process ended perfectly! In short, everyone must do a good job of bowel cleansing in advance. It is best not to eat vegetables, fruits and meat in the first three days. Try to eat white rice porridge, clear soup noodles, white flour buns, egg cakes, steamed egg custard, and drink pork ribs and chicken soup, etc. Then you don’t need to drink so much laxative to be cleaned up! And you must relax. If you relax, your intestines will not be tense and will not spasm . In this way, the doctor does not need to pump a lot of air into the intestines, nor does he need to poke the bends hard!