Ok, so last Tuesday I went to the hospital for my colonoscopy examination.

The procedure is mentioned here. The doctor inserts a flexible tube all the way through your colon – every 150 centimeter (5-6 feet). And believe me – that is a lot of colon!!

It is said that there are no nerves in your digestive system – at least there is no nerves in the colon – so you will not be able to feel when they do a biopsy, or in my case several biopsies all the way through the colon.

But you can feel it when you get the tube inserted because the colon moves and gets in touch with rest of your stomach. For me it was quite painfull. My colon was NOT coorporating with neither the rest of my body OR the doctor.

I dont know why it was not coorporating but maybe because the colon was very slimm. But after some struggle the finish line was reached, and the examination could begin.

Simply by pulling the tube back and on the way take a look at the walls and grab a biopsy on the way. I think they might have taken 10-12 biopsies – to check out the entire colon. And that is great and shows me that if there is scleroderma in my colon the tests will show. I will know in a few weeks.

And at least I did not have polyp or ulceration or something like that.

This Tuesday I am going to the hospital for a new examination – one I have never tried before and one that I dont want to try. But to check up on my scleroderma and to find out what is happening and where it is happening I need to go through different tests. I dont think I have gone so much to the hospital in my life as I have the past 2 years.

This time I am having my colon examined, the big one in the picture above. Did you know how big it is? 150 cm or 5-6 feet!!! And they want to examine EVERY inch of it. Please knock me out! Well, it is not going to happen – the knock out thing – and I will survive this as I survived last years easophagus examination. But I know that I will not like lying there on the side going through the examination. I have no problem in finding things that are much more fun. But I actually asked for the examination my self because I was wondering why I did not get any – and now that the doctors have said that I have the systemic scleroderma everything should be examined at least once!

What is a colonoscopy?

Well, it makes the doctor take a good look inside your body using a flexible tube which he/she inserts via your anus. On it there is a camera and the doctor can watch the procedure on a tv. Or he looks through the instrument.

During this long journey inside  your body the doctor can see in what shape the colon is. If needed a biopsy is taken. Polyps are being removed and so on.

You can read more here.