Colonoscopy

[prgb 0]

Any help out there about the colonoscopy prep. I don't think I can drink the prep stuff so just wondering if anyone has any suggestions?:thumbup:

[tle5000 1]

I didn't like the taste of that stuff either. I didn't have to drink the whole bottle. Check with your Dr. and see if they have something else available.

[missgypsy 1]

i didn't have to do anything like that at all. thank goodness!!! :thumbup:

[TracyNYC 4]

I had to drink that stuff....No fun. But for excitement I had to give myself an enema. This is physically impossible and being single, was a step i could not do. LOL

Good Luck.

[Tally23 0]

Castor Oil.. One shot glass full and your good. I have had multiple colonoscopies in the past ( None since the band) but I had to do the oil bowel prep for the band surgery. It was the easiest thing on my tummy and I already have a touchy one at that. The HalfLytely® and Bisacodyl Tablets wrecked my tummy and the Miralax

[Jachut 487]

Its hard to tell because they're probably different brand names, but I've had 2 colonoscopies in the past month - unfortunately the first discovered a large malignant tumour, sigh.

But anyway, prognosis good so lets not dwell on that, lets talk about the joys of bowel prep!

The first one, I had to do 3 sachets of picolax. That was easy as. It was effervescent, yes, and difficult to get past a band, but you're allowed to sip it, and had to take a sachet once every 2 or 3 hours, so it was very very doable. It tastes like that saline stuff we used to drink as kids. It wasnt too violent, it resulted in 3 totally liquid bowel motions for me, a couple of much smaller clear ones and two or three false alarms, was all finished by the next morning and ready for the colonoscopy.

The second time a week later, I had the Picolax and a sachet of colonlytely - that stuff is much more difficult. It makes up a litre, and its cloudy white. You have to get that entire litre down in the course of an hour, I really struggled with that since it tasted like a bucket of elephant semen (well, what I imagine that would taste like), kind of thick, warm and salty. Ergh. I gagged and fussed and carried on like a baby over that one but I did it. I used a straw and got it right into the back of my mouth, to try not to taste it, and I just worked on it for an hour. Again, the result was not too violent.

At no time was I required to skull anything, I was able to sip slowly. Also because I have a band, there wasnt a lot of muck in my system to start with, plus you have to to clears for about 12 hours before hand and a band makes that a lot easier too.

Its really not too scary, or too difficult to do.

[jingleboob 5]

I had one a few years ago and had to drink 2 bottles of gatorade mixed with the medicine over 2 hours... and I kept the first bottle and a half down. Cleaned everything out that's for sure!

Also, I don't want to scare you but talk to them before you go in and ask what kind of sedation you'll have... they put me under a twilight sedation where you're not fully out but you're not supposed to remember anything... and it didn't work. I felt everything and was very vocal during the procedure and they ignored me thinking I was in that half sleep state. I was NOT pleased, it was not pleasent, and they heard about it big time when it was over. If they aren't putting you out then make sure you have a code word to say so they know you're actually awake and aware... you do not want the experience I had.