I scheduled my colonoscopy this morning.

[LeftyFingerPop]

It will be my third one.

My favorite part is the prep.

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!! :woohoo: :woohoo:

[MissMillie]

1. I don't know what prep you had before

but I was told the one I had was "new" and that it was "much better" than the old one.

It wasn't a whole gallon, and it really didn't taste so bad.

But being stuck home by the potty is definitely no fun.

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. The first time...

I drank the whole gallon.

The second time, I had the pills and the half gallon.

I would drink that stuff all day if they would let me! :sarcasm:

[kentauros]

3. I had the pills and the half-gallon.

Did it this past May. I basically sat in my bathroom for an hour and half, taking the liquid. I got most of it down. That last 8oz refused to stay down, though. I told them as much at the hospital and they were fine with it. No problems, either :)

Oh, I recently read that colon cancer can be tested without the need for a colonoscopy, too. Now they tell us!

[greenbriar]

10. I did the same thing

that last 8 oz came up faster than anything came out anywhere else


they said it happens...




also, I weigh 100 lbs and they give the same amount to people who weigh 200 lbs


nurse said I had plenty

[kentauros]

11. Well, I am over 200 pounds...

;)

I think I should have remembered to go by the timing my doctor recommended, or once every 15 minutes instead of what the kit said, or ever ten minutes. It might make a difference, give your body more time to push that liquid through and absorb the electrolytes.

One thing I don't recommend is any kind of fruit-juice sorbet or popsicles. Stick with filtered juices to stave off the hunger :)

[Cadfael]

4. Know what's even more fun?

Instead of drinking the gallon of delightful liquid, having it poured down your NG tube :party:

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. Oh Jeez...

can't imagine.

[Moondog]

8. Had my second one about a year ago.

The prep really is beyond foul, isn't it?

[LeftyFingerPop]

29. The half gallon was not so bad...

The full gallon was an exercise in psyching myself out to finish it.

[av8rdave]

5. I didn't really care for the prep, but the happy juice was awesome

I had to have a couple of 'scope procedures last year. I always told them before they turned the spigot, "remember: I'll pay extra for extra."

[LeftyFingerPop]

15. I'm with you...

i love the Versed, or whatever they call it.

[WinkyDink]

6. Yay! Me, too! Three weeks from now! My 4th! (It's the drugs, man.)

[LeftyFingerPop]

23. I love the drugs.

:)

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

7. Hang in there Lefty!

:hurts:

Sending you good vibes kid.

[LeftyFingerPop]

17. Thank you!

No big deal though... :hug:

[greenbriar]

9. did it last month...I hear ya...hey some advice...start a liquid diet 2 days before prep

makes the clean out MUCH easier


and use gingerale as a chaser to the wonderful liquid clean out

[LeftyFingerPop]

18. Thank you greenbriar, but I have to do it a little differently...

insulin regulation along with food and all that...:hi:

[Generic Brad]

12. That exam wouldn't have anything to do with your screen name?

For your sake, I hope not!

[LeftyFingerPop]

19. I sure as hell hope not.

[Skittles]

13. you are so full of shit, LFP

oh wait....problem scheduled to be solved :7

[LeftyFingerPop]

22. Yes. but I'll fill back up soon enough!

:D

[LynneSin]

14. Do they put you under where you live?

A big stink a few years ago when Aetna decided they wouldn't pay for anesthesia even though it wasn't really saving them that much money by not covering. Plus the studies showed that less people would get Colonoscopy if they had to stay awake thru THAT party.

[kentauros]

16. I was awake during mine and it wasn't bad.

There were only a couple of times where it was uncomfortable and that was when the doctor had to "help" the scope around a bend. He basically pushed on my abdomen in a couple of places and that was it. I watched most of it on the screen, so it was pretty cool to me :D

(I did have anesthesia, just not the kind to knock me out...)

[LeftyFingerPop]

21. I want to be put into a drug induced coma.

[kentauros]

25. Well, I didn't say I wasn't loopy afterwards!

:P

I had a friend take me there and pick me up; they also made sure of that, too.

[LeftyFingerPop]

20. They give you a twilight drug and an amnesia drug...

I am getting an endoscopy also, so I have to be awake to follow swallowing instructions, but you really do not remember anything, so it is the same as being completely out.

I highly doubt if I would get it done without these drugs. :hi:

[graywarrior]

26. Let us know how everything comes out.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

27. OK. I will PM you pics of my colon.

[kentauros]

28. I wish they had given me electronic copies so I could do the same

but they didn't. Just a color print-out. Still cool, though :D

[LeftyFingerPop]

30. Scan it!

:rofl:

[kentauros]

31. Alas, my HP 3300 is a dead scanner.

And I don't want no exploding heads around here from the other kind of scanner :P

[LeftyFingerPop]

32. I have those same types of color pics...

they're pretty cool :)