While it’s not a widely accepted fact in the medical community, a large number of people who undergo colonoscopies do so without chewing gum. This is because gum is believed to help aid in the cleansing process and because gum is believed to decrease the amount of time it takes your body to perform its natural detoxification of the colon.
There’s also some evidence that gum could actually make things worse because it is believed to have a laxative effect. A study of over 9,000 people found that people who underwent colonoscopies who chewed gum had a higher rate of hemorrhoids, and that gum chewing was associated with a nearly twofold increase in hemorrhoids.
One question I often get is, are gum and colonoscopies really that bad? The answer is probably yes. But I think it has to be weighed on the whole “it’s not the end of the world” factor. You’re not only in the hospital, but you’re probably going to have to make a lot of changes to your lifestyle to function. If you have a healthy diet and avoid things like alcohol, caffeine, and sugar, you should be okay.
I am a fairly healthy person which leads me to think that my colonoscopy experience would not have been that bad. I think because I’m not a heavy user of gum and I took it easy. But I also think that I would have probably had more problems if I had tried to chew gum at that time. I would have probably had gum stuck in my teeth, which I knew was bad, but I would have also been in a lot of pain.
I would have probably had a very sore, red gum, and my teeth would have been chattering and I would have had a lot of pain. I know this because I had a colonoscopy as well, and my teeth weren’t chattering, but that’s because I didn’t have gum stuck in my teeth.
That’s right, the gum was sticking in your teeth, you were having gum trouble, and you had to have a colonoscopy. So it is a medical procedure, so I have to assume that you are either very sick or very lucky.
Yes, and there are a lot of medical procedures that you have to go through before you can go to the dentist. But if you go in to get your teeth cleaned, you should also go in to have your gum removed.
I wonder if that is also the reason why the doctor had to cut out my tongue and part of my lips.
The reason that I feel so bad about the whole thing is that I am a dentist, and since I have to have my mouth cleaned, I should be able to use a sharp object to remove the remaining gum on my tongue. What if the gum was stuck on the tip of my tongue? If the gum came off, I would have to re-enter the procedure.
No, you shouldn’t have gum stuck to your tongue for you to have to re-enter a procedure.