Hemorrhoid appointments from Longueuil, around work
The practical obstacle for most people travelling in is not the distance, it is fitting the appointment into a working day without taking the whole thing off. This page is about the timing rather than the treatment.
Budget around half an hour for the appointment itself. Most of that half hour is conversation, the anoscopy is a couple of minutes of it, and you are dressed again immediately afterwards. Add your travel either side and a first visit is comfortably a long lunch rather than a day off work.
A procedure session is shorter than the consultation rather than longer, which surprises almost everybody. Banding takes minutes in an ordinary clinic room, needs no general anaesthetic and no bowel preparation at all, and you walk out and drive yourself home afterwards.
So the thing worth protecting in your diary is the travel window rather than any recovery. The first visit page covers what fills the half hour, preparing for a procedure covers what the day actually requires of you, and aftercare covers the evening.
From Longueuil
Choosing a slot
Picking a time that works from Longueuil
Say when you travel
Which direction and roughly what time, because the sensible slot depends on both rather than on the distance.
Block half an hour
Plus travel. Most of the appointment is conversation, and the examination is a couple of minutes of it.
Keep the same slot
Across the course. Rebooking a different time each visit is the part people find hardest to sustain.
Plan a quiet rest of day
Not a day off. No sedation means no lift home, though a demanding afternoon is worth avoiding.
What not to plan around
The one thing not to plan around
Do not book a day off work expecting to have a procedure at the very first visit. Screening comes first, and an endoscopic test is expected within a reasonable interval before any banding, so a same-day procedure is sometimes possible and never something to organise your week around.
What a first appointment reliably produces is the grade, the options, a session count and a cost. That is worth the trip on its own, and it is also the thing that lets you plan the subsequent visits properly rather than guessing at them.
So it is worth treating the first one as the planning appointment rather than the treatment one. Preparing for a procedure covers the screening involved, how many sessions covers how many slots you will eventually need, and the first visit covers what it produces.
Half an hourBlock out
NoLift home needed
Not plannedSame-day procedure
Nearby pages
Other areas travelling into Montreal
Each nearby page takes a different part of the trip, so it is worth reading the one you are coming from.
What people ask when they are trying not to take a whole day off for this.
Around half an hour for the appointment plus your travel either side. Most of that half hour is conversation; the examination itself is a couple of minutes and you dress again straight away.
Shorter, which surprises most people when they hear it. Banding takes minutes in an ordinary clinic room, with no general anaesthetic and no bowel preparation involved at any point.
Yes. There is no sedation, so there is no lift to arrange and no day written off. A quieter rest of the day rather than a demanding one is sensible.
Sometimes, and it is never something to plan a day off around. Screening comes first, and an endoscopic test is expected within a reasonable interval beforehand, so treat the first visit as planning.
Tell us which direction you travel from and roughly when, and we will find the slot that fits. The sensible time depends on your route rather than on the distance.
It is much easier to sustain across a course than rebooking a different slot every few weeks, and it is the thing people most often wish they had done from the start.
From Longueuil
Half an hour, not half a day
A long lunch, roughly
Half an hour plus travel for a first visit. Most of it conversation, the examination a couple of minutes.
The procedure is shorter
Banding takes less time than the consultation did, which is the opposite of what people expect.
Drive yourself home
No sedation means no lift to arrange, though a quieter rest of the day is worth planning for.
Do not book a day off
Screening comes first, so a same-day procedure is sometimes possible and never worth organising around.
