High Colonic: High Five Colonic or Low NO, Not Me?

Then a couple of years ago a colleague of mine told me that his wife was going into private practice doing nothing but high coloncis. I was polite but not as interested as I had been a decade or so before when I thought I should get one, and got it. (See Paris Hilton module)

I have had a colonoscopy since that one high colonic. I didn't use any anethesia then, and I watched the same screen the doctor saw. What I found remarkable was that it was all so pink and clean looking. Of course, that had all been after a day of fasting and then taking some horrible liquid over a couple of hours and then a self administered enema. But it was still very clean.

So I thought, where was all this build-up that was supposed to need several high colonics to clean? I mean, the day was awful, but I was clean right up to the point where a high colonic would have gone, and it must have been clean higher up. Good news, byw, they found nothing and I didn't have to go back for another ten years.

I mentioned that, was told its not the same and didn't ask again.

Ten years later I had a second one. They demanded aneasthsia and well, I didn't see the need to 'see' it again. I did note that the day before was much less unpleasant than I remembered. For one thing fasting wasn't as bad as I remembered, aging has some benefits, apparently. But the liquid was only taken over an hour, it wasn't quite as nauseating and there was no need for an enema.

So I thought, "that was easy enough, how about doing this once every once in a while instead of the high colonic?"

BTW, they found one small irregularity and removed it, but I don't need to go back again for 10 years. The man before me was told to come back next year, so that isn't automatic. But it sure shows the importance of the colonoscopy!