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wendy...i'm so sorry that you've been feeling so bad and are having so many issues to deal with..i'm sending you good thoughts...
anyways i think a vaginal sonogram is a inside sonogram. not the kind that they just roll over your pelvic area. i have had one. it's a device that they place a condom over...well you get what i mean..too much info.
i hope everything goes well with it.
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Sun described the vaginal sonogram as I have experienced it. I had several early in my pregnancies when it was too early to use the one over the belly. A little uncomfortable but not much worse than a regular visit to the gyn. The worst part for me was that I had to drink TONS of water beforehand and then hold it in...yeah right...then get naked and cold and try not to "go"...I'm not sure if you'll have to do that. They do b/c your full bladder helps them get a better picture of everything else. Good luck. 
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I'll piggyback on the fact that the drinking water and not being able to pee until afterwards was the worst part. I literally thought I was not going to make it! Luckily, the sonagram itself did not take a long time at all and they show you to the bathroom right afterwards  Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Julie
IBS-D, GERD, lactose intolerant
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"We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."
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yep i'll piggyback on that too..
forgot about all the water, i drink so much of it...lol
they usually make you drink a lot for both types of exam the just the outer one and the inner one.
they do let you out of the exam quickly when it's done so you can get rid of the water.
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Geez, I guess a vaginal sonogram is more common than I thought. I know it's definitely internal, I just want to know how long is the thingy they put in there? My GYN said something about 12inches and I hope she was just kidding! I have to make the appointment, it definitely won't be for next week as it will be that time of the month so I'm looking at something within the next 2 weeks or so.
So now I've been probed (colonoscopy), I've been gagged (endoscopy), and now I'm up for penetration (vaginal sonogram). If I have to go to a urologist, I'm guessing I'll be fondled (cystoscopy). If that isn't TMI then I don't know what is! I can take it! I think.
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Wendy IBS A thru Z 
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Sorry to hear about all the h*ll you've been through. As for the sonogram, I think the entire instrument is 12 inches. What they inserted was maybe 6-8. I am very sensitive to exams (something that's gotten worse over time) and am usually in pain during my regular exam. This didn't bother me at all. I too was told to drink a lot of water and when I got there, was told I didn't have to do that and I could pee right away before the exam. So make sure you call the place that's doing the procedure and confirm if you have to do that. Because if you don't, you don't wanna put yourself through it.
A lot of IBSers are on anxiety medication. I actually have an anxiety disorder so I take it for both. Even though I rarely feel anxious anymore, I know it does help as i ran out of the prescription for a week and my IBS went to h*ll. So I would talk to the doc about maybe a very low dose.
Are you on birth control? My GYN changed me to the 3 month cycle and my cramps and pain have dimished substantially. I had pre-cancer of the cervix when I was about 26 and had to have surgery. I don't recall having any issues with not being able to insert a tampon. Basically I had no symptoms at all and thank God for annual pap smears.
It's good that you've had all these tests done as there is no test for IBS. It does sound like you do have it. I would hang in there with the diet, try to control the anxiety and not let it limit your life (I know, easier said than done, been in your situation many times). One thing that has helped me tremendously is calcium carbonate. If you do searches you'll find more information. It's done wonders for my D. Instead of going 10 times, I go once a day or every other. It's been fantastic. I've even cheated a little without consequence. Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything for the pain of an attack. I was doubled over for two days last week in gut-wrenching pain, but there was only one brief episode of D and I didn't take anything to stop it.
I wish you the best of luck in figuring out what's going on. Those of us with more than one condition always have a harder time figuring out how the conditions interact and what symptoms are from what. Good luck.
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Thanks, IBSHeck. 12 inches. And who said bigger was better? LOL I'll give 'em a holler tomorrow to set up an appointment.
I believe I've always had a very mild case of anxiety due to the fact that I would always get motion sick when I was little and so I'd always anticipate the worse when I would go on family outings and even now as an adult, I don't really look forward to going on trips, even if I'm the planner! The IBS has made that feeling flourish and if I was able to fight it without meds before, then by God I'll do it again. Thank God the humidity here in NYC is finally going away 'cause it was kicking my arse!
I don't have D but when I start feeling antsy, I feel like D may happen and most of the time I feel like I'm going to hurl, but because I'm not sick from anything I may've eaten, I fight both feelings off 'cause I know it's me making me feel that way. While I was sitting in the GYN's waiting area yesterday, and it's quite comical when I look back at it now, I tell ya if someone would've heard what was going on in my head they definitely would've called the medics:
Antsy Wendy: You're 8 stops further away from work and now a total of 18 stops away from home than what you're used to. What if you get sick?
Old Wendy: Shut the hell up. You're not going to get sick. You're going to be fine.
Antsy Wendy: I don't know. It's kind of hot out there and you're going to be laying on the table and you won't be able to get out.
Old Wendy: Would you SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
Antsy Wendy: And then of course you still have to get on the subway to get home. I hope the trains run smoothly.
Old Wendy: shut up, Shut Up, SHUT UP!
And then I'd smile at the woman sitting across from me and then I'd go back to battle again. Can you see the men in the white coats coming?
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Wendy IBS A thru Z
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Wendy, that was so funny. You probably described what so many of us say in our daily fight/flight battle. That is totally me too this week at the bus stop. ("Oh no, I think I should ask another parent to put him on the bus b/c I think I'm going to have an accident any second,"....THEN, "Wait...just a few more minutes, calm down, breath, you can do it...you'll be fine..." Until finally THE BUS ARRIVES  Thank God. Well, you definitely could benefit from the hypno. I have been relistening to some sessions to calm myself and also I started yoga again. I know that if it wasn't for the hypno (and the meds) that I wouldn't be able to fight off that feeling and those thoughts. Stick with it...certainly can't hurt.
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Then IBS-A, Now a transformed slightly C
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Oh, I'm definitely a trooper! I'm on day 40 and 41 (both days are "off" days) and I'll keep trucking on listening to the CDs and I'll repeat if need be when I'm finished. That plus the fact that I'm reading two anxiety/phobia books.
As far as the battle going on in my head, I definitely put the mental in ornamental! 
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