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Hey BARBLE1005, how are you doing?

An Anoscopy may be used to determine whether you have
, anal polyps, tumors, inflammation,
, or infection. You will be asked to defecate to clear your rectum of stool before the procedure.

A laxative, enema, or other preparation may be administered to help clear your rectum. If a biopsy is needed, there is a limited risk of bleeding and mild pain.

Hope you are feeling better after going home. After you recieve your test results, you should conclude that it was all worth it.

Best wishes,
The Prison Hospital

Prisoner: Look here, doctor! You've already removed my spleen, tonsils, adenoids, and one of my kidneys. I only came to see if you could get me out of this place!

Doctor: I am, bit by bit.

-- Aha! Jokes



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THANKS FOR THE INFO BUT I ALREADY KNEW ABOUT AN ANOSCOPE EXAM. I HAD, HAD ONE BEFORE. I DID NOT FEEL BETTER WHEN I WENT HOME, I FELT WORSE. I HAD TO GET ANOTHER DOCTOR BECAUSE OF THE INSENSITIVITY OF THE FIRST DOCTOR AND THEN I HAD TO GO THROUGH IT ALL AGAIN. THE SECOND DOCTOR WAS MUCH BETTER THOUGH. HE EXAMINED ME ON MY SIDE AND HE IS GOING TO DO A NEW PROCEDUSE CALLED A PPH. HE ACTUALLY FOUND MORE WRONG WITH ME THAN THE FIRST DOCTOR AND THE PPH IS SUPPOSE TO BE A LONG TERM FIX FOR MY PROBLEM. I WILL BE GOING IN FOR THAT IS A COUPLE OF DAYS. THE ONLY THING IS NOW BECAUSE OF THAT FIRST DOCTOR I NO LONGER FEEL SAFE AND THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. I HAVE HAD 4 SURGERIES AND 2 PROCEDURES IN THE PAST AND NOW I FEEL SCARED.
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Have you ever had the rubberband ligation done in the past, Barbara?



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Hey BARBLE1005, how are you doing?

Your body may show such adaptations to the stress over time - a phenomenon that researchers call "physiologic habituation." Although dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder can be very challenging, appropriate treatment and support is available to you.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is often helpful for trauma survivors. This type of therapy helps you adopt new thoughts (called cognitions) and behaviors in place of destructive or negative ones, while safely revisiting aspects of the trauma.

The attending physician was very unprofessional. This event must have left a huge "emotional scar."

Best wishes,

The Prison Hospital

Prisoner: Look here, doctor! You've already removed my spleen, tonsils, adenoids, and one of my kidneys. I only came to see if you could get me out of this place!

Doctor: I am, bit by bit.

-- Aha! Jokes



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I guess if I were you, I would want to know just how many of these procedures your doctor has performed and how experienced he is. Yes, it may result in a long-term fix but it certainly doesn't prevent hemorrhoids from recurring. My opinion really doesn't matter but I think if I were in your shoes, I would go for the office rubberbanding and see how that worked before I would have the PPH done. I know that doctors are saying that PPH is less painful and that the recovery time is shorter for some people (when compared to a regular excision of internal hemorrhoids) but what would worry me is that the internal muscles of the sphincter may be damaged during PPH, resulting in short-term or long-term dysfunction, severe pain or incontinence. And, during the procedure, if they don't place the staple line in the proper place or if they draw too much tissue into the stapling device, it can cause infection and damage to the wall of your rectum. I'm a chicken and wouldn't want to go through that. I certainly don't mean to say anything to frighten you either - it's just my thought on the whole thing.

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The doctor I am seeing is suppose to be the best at this procedure. I hope nothing like that happens but I did talk to others that had it done and they said it turned out good so I'm going to give it a try. My dad has had so many hemorroid banding procedures and still has to carry preparation H with him everywhere. I just don't want to have to do that.

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I don't blame you. And, only you know the level of pain you have been suffering with this condition of yours. If your doctor is the best, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Good luck to you and let us know how you make out with this - it's an interesting new procedure that many surgeons are now choosing to learn.



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i do know what hospital he works at because I work there too. I have been thinking about reporting him to the head of surgery. The problem is that I had to go back to the same office and saw a different doctor to have my problem taken care of. I live in a smaller town and we only have the one hospital and it owns all the surrounding hospitals too. All the other surgeons refered their patients to this group of surgeons for hemorroid complaints. I just had a procedure done by one of the other doctors and it turned out good but it was very stressful because I know that he talked to this doctor about me and I felt uncomfortable about the whole thing. I was waiting until everything was over to decide what I should do next. Also with me working on my nursing degree and working at the same hospital as these surgeons means that I run into them from time to time and have to do things for them because of my job. Anyways the doctor I turned in said he would not let it happen again and I tell everyone about him and to not go to him. I would never refer him to anyone. I wouldn't even take my dog to him. My family doctor said she wouldn't refer anymore of her patients to him again either.
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Hey BARBLE1005, how are you doing?

What exactly is it that you want to happen to this Doctor or What consequences do you think would be appropriate for this kind of unprofessionalism?

Best wishes,
The Prison Hospital

Prisoner: Look here, doctor! You've already removed my spleen, tonsils, adenoids, and one of my kidneys. I only came to see if you could get me out of this place!

Doctor: I am, bit by bit.

-- Aha! Jokes



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You need to let it go, Barb. You are going on and on about this doctor and it's over already. He apologized to you so I don't get why you don't accept it and move on. Some are saying that he is heartless and is only a surgeon for the money and doesn't care about his patients..... he wouldn't be in business if this were so. If he was only in this field for the money, then he would want to do whatever he could to keep patients coming back to him - not humiliate them and scare them off forever. Of course he's in it for the money to some degree or he wouldn't be a surgeon in the first place. You found a new doctor that you like and you are happy with him now, right? I have to say that I only know of one surgeon who has patients lay on their sides for rectal exams - the rest all have them bend over the table like you were asked to. When I am working alongside any surgeon and a sheet drops (as it has many times since it's only lightly draped and not taped to anything), I pick it up for him since he is wearing gloves and is the one performing the procedure. The last thing you want is for him to pick up something off the floor with his gloved hands and then proceed to look into or feel into your rectum with the same gloved hand(s) or you'd be complaining about that too! The nurse should have picked up your sheet for him. Or, maybe she was holding an instrument, light, or gauze etc,. at the time. You wouldn't even know since you weren't in the position to know. I've been there a million times and I know this can and does happen. I know you are not far enough into your nursing degree studies to have done any clinical rounds yet or you would know differently altogether. As for laughing at you like you were some kind of an idiot... I really don't believe it was like that. I think you were so nervous and upset that you are believing that. You are running this through your head too much. You need to drop it. If you complain to the hospital heads, they will look down upon YOU, not him (that's just the politics of it all, right or wrong whether you like it or not). Your situation happened in his office, not at the hospital so they won't do anything to reprimand him on a hospital level. He's already apologized to you and I'm positive that his sympathy goes out to you for your distress over all of this and not due to the way that he performed the exam - again, this is how MOST doctors perform this type of exam. Also, you are working at this same hospital and on your nursing degree - how many doctors do you think will hire you or will even want to work with you if you are going around badmouthing their colleague and insistant upon seeing him be reprimanded? I'm not saying you are a liar or anything else.... I'm saying I think you are overeacting to this whole issue. You are hurting yourself by continuing on about this. If you continue to bad mouth this doctor like you are, you had better have an excellent witness in that nurse of his (that was in the exam room with you) to vouch for YOU if he truly was unprofessional in any way, or not only will you not have a case, you can be sued by this doctor, for slander.

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WOW YOU MUST HAVE CRYSTAL BALLS OR SOMETHING. YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT ME. YES I HAVE HAD A SEMESTER OF CLINICALS THANK YOU AND IT WAS THE PATIENT RIGHTS ADVOCATE FROM THE HOSPITAL THAT HAS BEEN TRYING TO PERSUADE ME TO TALK TO THE HEAD SURGEON. THEY HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH THIS DOCTOR BEFORE. I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT THOUGH BECAUSE THE DOCTOR I HAVE IS EXCELLENT AND HAS TREATED ME VERY WELL AND VERY RESPECTFUL. AS FOR NOBODY COULD PICK UP THE BLANKET BECAUSE THEY WERE BUSY THE BLANKET FELL TO THE FLOOR BEFORE THE TABLE WAS EVEN MOVED INTO PLACE OR BEFORE THE EXAM WAS UNDERWAY. I HAVE BEEN ONLY REPLYING TO PEOPLE WRITING ME IN THE POST AND I AM NOT OBSESSING ABOUT IT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF NURSE YOU ARE BUT I WOULDN'T WANT YOU TAKING CARE OF ME WITH THE ATTITUDE YOU HAVE ABOUT PATIENTS AND THEIR FEELINGS. ALSO YOU ARE POSITIVE HIS SYMPATHY GOES OUT TO ME. DO YOU KNOW HIM? ALSO NO ONE IS TALKING SUING ANYONE. I THINK YOU ARE STUCK ON YOURSELF AND THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING WHEN YOU KNOW NOTHING. WHATEVER
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I think smithn is only trying to give an honest opinion. I think you mis-understand the replies given to you as objective opinions. Slandor is very serious and people get themselves into situations like this all the time by dismantling their physicians credentials and subjecting them to a verbal recourse that might've come from one occurance, not many; as in physicians who lose their license because of sexual assualt or raping their unconscious victims, etc.

No one here is taking away from what happened to you and every physician is different in how they handle examinations like the one you received.

Let's keep this board friendly and the comments less than ranting or questioning someone's practice or position in the medical profession.

As has been mentioned here, if you haven't already, speak with an attorney, the physician's supervisors, or even contact the state board of health if you feel you have been treated maliciously by any physician.
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