routine colonoscopy prep.

[Crankin]

I don't know anyone who has to be on a liquid diet for 3 days. I had to eat low fiber foods for 3 days, then like a half a day of jello type stuff and a few hours of liquid, along with the horrible stuff that is supposed to make you "go." That stuff didn't work that great on me. The procedure itself was nothing, but unlike my DH, I was awake through the whole thing! Feeling no pain, but awake. The doc gave me a tour of my GI system on the screen. He actually asked me if I had done the prep, as it was hard for him to se, but I had drank every last bit of the stuff.
I came home and ordered take out Indian food.

[shootingstar]

Coincidentally I had my lst one just a couple days after my 55th birthday earlier this year.

They squeezed me in for an appointment on determining right method and then, the actual screening the next day...which meant with 30 hrs. I had to stop eating, drink the prep crap and go to the toilet tons of time. I had no choice because dearie is the only person I knew who could take me home during a normal working day.

Patients are given photos of their colon. Mine is clean and pink. Wonderful. As usual they had problems inserting light anaesthesia needles in my veins....like trying to find my veins.

I think I lost 5 lbs. temporarily and drastically for prep. in a short period of time. I was medicated out during the procedure. Fine by me.

I don't need to get 2nd one until a decade later. Fine by me.

It certainly helps me to cycle often...for bowel motility.

[marni]

well as you say the prep is the worst. the event itself went fine, no polyps (that is why every 5 years).

I agree with the loss of ability to think. I have been trying to warp up my small Navajo frame loom for and upcoming weaving demo at a cotton gin festival and I spent three hours today trying to figure out how to do the final step and giving up- I have been doing one of these every three to four months so it's not like this is a new process.

the most aggravating part of the day was that after spending a couple of hours prefilling out all of there forms and permissions on line, after we had gotten there and signed in, another three forms to initial, they kept us waiting for an hour and a half, when we asked why they had had us come in so early they told us it was to fill out the registration forms- three initials and a signature! they didn't actually even start the procedure until 2:45 and I was home by 4:00 with a half hour commute each way accounted for,45 minutes of actual medical stuff. and five hours out of my husbands work day .

something is very wrong with this system .

Came home had a bran muffin, a coup of tea and am feeling completely whole again.

Re the prolonged clear liquid fast- the dr. says it makes the whole prep easier. Yeah right. The anaestheseologist was all set to panic over my low heart rate until I splained him about my training regimine.

thanks for the sympathies and good luck to all of you who are on the same journey.