Beware of the new ,"modern", changed ,MORE PAINFUL home preparations for a colonoscopy!!

I had my first colonoscopy at  age 50,in 1998.
The guidelines from my doctor at the time were to have one every 5 or 10 years, at the maximum.


Then i got Kaiser Medical insurance from work with a sizable co-pay. You heard their commercial about "thrive". Well, after 10 years, Kaiser said "yes it is our policy to have colonoscopies every 10 years, but we only authorized a mailed fecal sample bag for you."  That went on for 4 years of 'no colonoscopy authorized by Kaiser' and sending me another mailed fecal sample bag, which is not the same thing as a colonoscopy visual exam of your shorter large intestine and i did not use.  Kaiser trying to get off cheap, again !!


I am a Vietnam veteran and signed up for V.A. medical insurance.  The V.A. knew i had served in the Navy, but did not know my discharge status, was it Honorable or Dishonorable !!  Yikes, even the V.A. can not keep its records of veterans straight !!  It took months of paperwork, but i finally got my V.A. card and the appointment for a colonoscopy, after 14 years.


The non-V.A. colonoscopy clinic in Menlo Park said "You know that this is going to be a painful procedure, so we recommend someone drive you and you accept the general anesthesia."  But i told them my first and only colonoscopy treatment in 1998 at 50 years of age was only mildly discomforting. What was so painful about the procedure?  They would not tell me but kept insisting on me taking the general anesthesia, but i wanted to be awake, especially if it was that painful and obviously done improperly.  The Menlo Park clinic surprised me and said "we don't want you as an awake patient. appointment cancelled."


So i got an appointment at the V.A. itself in Palo Alto.  My home preparation directions were to abstain from solid food for 2 days before the colonoscopy procedure, not even clam chowder or turkey noodle soup.  No aspirin or vitamins for a week before the exam. OK.  I had been taking lots of Costco generic metamucil to clean out my small and large intestines.


Then the day before i was to drink this plastic gallon jug of special salts with warm water, "at 2pm", a glass every 10 minutes, to suck the water out of my body and flush my long small intestines and short large intestines.  I started drinking and started to get gut cramps.  SEVERE GUT CRAMPS, very Very painful !! No one warned me about these very painful , 7/10 level, bloated abdomen, gut cramps!


Then the massive water flush of diarrhea started!  Cramps and a quart of watery each time diarrhea, mostly clear and with little or no feces. The pain of the cramps got so bad i was almost crying for 6 LONG HOURS! Why had no nurse or doctor warned me about these 'home preparation', long painful cramps as i lay on the couch or sat on the toilet !?  I wasn't even at the hospital yet, and the pain was killing me.


I had finished the "GoLYTELY Peg-3350 and electrolytes, 4 liters" and was next to drink a glass bottle of 10 fluid ounces of Magnesium Citrate, and drink more water. But i was in so much pain i called  the V.A. advice nurse,so patient and helpful, and asked "Why did the Metamucil  home prep. at 50 and procedure then not hurt, and now i can barely get thru half the home preparation because it is so very painful with 6 hours of very painful  gut cramping and diarrhea?" She assured me that this was the 'gold standard of care, nowadays' and that everybody did it this way. Maybe i should consider going under/asleep with general anesthesia once i got to the hospital the next day?  I told her to cancel my appointment, as i could not do Another different bottle of medical salts and More water, as the pain of the at 'home preparation' was just way too much. Then she said maybe they could just do an enema before the colonoscopy  and avoid any more at home preparation pain. What a great idea!; An enema at the V.A. hospital in Palo Alto and none of this gut cramps for 6 hours, a guy almost in tears!!  Maybe next time,,,


BEWARE: modern medicine does not care about the patient's pain, obviously!!.  Especially if they continue to insist on this long and very painful at home preparation that includes 2 very long days without any solid food, ("drink sodas"!!), no aspirin or pain meds!!(right,,,), drinking 2 medical salt solutions and gallons of water, and at least 6+ LONG HOURS OF VERY PAINFUL GUT CRAMPS THEY DO NOT TELL YOU ABOUT, oh and explosive diarrhea for 3 days, so they night before the examination don't expect to get much sleep. You might feel dizzy and weak from the lack of nutrients and dehydration the morning of the exam.

I hope Blacklisting , after what they did to the LA actors decades back in the McCarthy hysteria, is outlawed , nationwide, but i doubt it

Have you looked at all the job postings on Craigslist and how many (transport:SF limos and tour buses is my training) job postings ask for a resume and a DMV printout, but do not mention the company hiring by name?


Nor the pay and benefits?


Sometimes there is this long list of 'what we expect'.  And then a code number to reply to. Nothing else. No company name so you can check on their reputation and website. No pay and benefits to see if it is average or below average.  Just 'don't call us'.


Now is that any way to treat unemployed workers?


It is not only workers having a hard time now with layoffs still in the 1000s and factories closing to move overseas. But the unemployed , many are told up front , to not apply for job openings !!


We have so much to thank the 'too big to fail' bankers for.

Newsweek has an article recently about "Vaccine cure for breast cancer",,, and there is not any other major media discussion about it !??!

Not the Today Show on Comcast's NBC.


Not GMA/ Good Morning America on ABC.


Not on CBS...Not  the 60minutes show. 


Why all the silence?


Isn't this a major, i repeat, MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERY !?


I do not understand all this local and national media silence,,,


Hello ! ,,, "breast cancer!"


hello,,, Susan G. Komen,,,?

Why oh WHY!? ,,, Do banks and stores , like Walgreens, use hooked 6s that look, after 30, like hooked 9s ,,,or 3s or 8s !? Why, why why,,,? What a waste of time and all the errors , for what !?

Someone , please, tell me there is a logical common sense reason for all this eye strain, and misread numbers mistakes.


OK,,, silence.  So who is running this show?  


Won't talk , eh?


Is this "business as usual"? Cuz i don't like it !!

T-Mobile customers with 4G MY TOUCH cellphones, you can either wait for your battery to die in a year or so, and pay T-Mobile store $80 to next day air it to you,,, OR YOU CAN BUY ONE IN ADVANCE at Fry's Electronic's/frys.com for $20.

And,,, if you call frys.com customer service 800#, they will look up and! also call the store you chose to make sure they have the item in hand and put it in your name for pickup! ,,, not just a ghost quantity on the computer !!


The replacement battery for the 4G MY TOUCH touchscreen model is a LENMAR-brand, model-CLZ427HT, for $19.99.


Sweet !! Good hunting,,,

Costo gasoline, members only, STAYS OPEN 1 HR AFTER STORE CLOSES AT 830PM,,,SO 930PM !!

i did not know that,,,
all these years,,,
no big sign,,,
just tiny signs,,,

11 Feb. 2011,Seems like the national media attention has been at the 'Circus' for weeks. Lots of "clowns" and "freaks" and sword-swallowers(why?) and "Magicians" who do tricks like 'Taxes are bad and the Nation's debt does not matter' when we know it is a trick. How long do we as a Nation have to watch this 'Circus' , bored tired with reality, to want to say, 'ok, that was weird, strange, bizarre, radical, extreme,,, now i am ready for Reality again?

What a 'Circus' it was tho!!
The beautiful people,,, that were sooo dumb! Wow.
A doctor and a leader who both showed so little compassion and understanding that America is for all of us, sink or swim, that we will not stop this free-fall unless all can afford to go shopping again and buy new cars and movie tickets and other made in the USA products.  Another 10 or 40 years of just the rich getting pay increases and doing well will not be enough to save the free-falling USA.  It's a nice fantasy, but like watching a Magician , we do know it is misdirection and tricks, not a real special power.  


Just tricks.  Amusing, maybe entertaining until you sense the hate undercurrent and the con.  If we all are fooled just a little bit longer, the rich will be the very few sooo much richer.  Boy, have we wasted a lot of time at this Circus!


And right after one of the biggest public thefts in American history of the bankers forging mortgages to make hybrid investment vehicles,CDS and such, so risky they crashed the Nation's economy.  No banker has gone to jail yet, as we have just bailed them out from pulling us all under.  The question of the law and who broke it and how long the media and the public will ignore the massive size of this gigantic theft in broad daylight, waits.  


Who really cares if bankers can continue to lie cheat steal forge fabricate falsify and foreclose on millions of Americans, under mortgage contracts that lets them take all the years and decades of mortgage payments in the $Trillions and also the houses-homes away from so many, with forged fake fraudulent documents? They are laughing at our public weakness  'all the way to the bank'.   The bait of the American Dream and the nightmare of business-as-usual foreclosure. With a lot of extra fraud thrown in ,,, for extra profit.  Yikes.


Who is big enough to go against the bankers that are still 'too big to fail' , still running Congress with the Clinton killing of the Glass-Steagall Act, and making huge,solar system size profits, illegally?  The public?  The State Attorney Generals? The President and vice-President? The public. Maybe, if it all weren't such an awful mess.