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Can you tell me about having a flexible sigmoidoscopy or a colonoscopy ?
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Both look at: The lower colon but the colonoscopy looks at the entire colon. Preps are different, colonoscopy usually requires sedation and thus someone to drive home, but flex sig can be done in office without sedation and you can resume normal activity right away. Indication are different for each so it depends on the reason you are having the exam in the first place.
Answered 2/6/2014
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