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jonnygurl76 · October 2012

just prep for a colonoscopy!! I am only allowed liquids and jello today and I am already starving. I have had to use Miralax every night for the past week and I have a buttload of laxatives in my near future. I have done this before but I was always allowed to eat lightly the day before and then clean out with the big gallon jug of sudsy, nasty Golytly. My gastro. seems to think that I will be able to do it the new way with Gatorade without a problem since my hypoglycemia has been fine since having babies.

backstory: This is the first time in 3 years that I am not pregnant and/or BFing and I can do itI was due for a follow up in 2009. I had my first one 13 years ago when I was having symptoms (blood and irregularity) and they found a golf ball sized polyp that was biopsied as pre cancerous. After I was all clear the last time he told me to come back in 5 years and it has been 8... Embarrassed . I am a colonoscopy veteran but please keep your fingers crossed for me that I am still all clear!

nicki731 · October 2012

I can sympathize! I had a colonoscopy about 3 years ago for a similar issue. The prep is horrendous! I remember crying the day I wasn't allowed to eat. I think it's safe to say I have a food addiction. Good luck with everything JG hope you get some good news!!

ETA I had to laugh at "buttloads of laxatives" in your future haha

AngLK987 · October 2012

Yucky, I'm sorry you have to do that again, but hoping all the results come back normal for you.

kagl08 · October 2012

That sounds just awful! All my patients [I was a nurse before SAHM] used to hate colonoscopy prep!! Good luck and I hope your results come back awesome!

pennysuedog · October 2012

Keeping my fingers crossed!

MH had had to have one last spring.

BTW can you upload us a video of you after the procedure looped up farting? I think it will help liven up the board.

nicki731 · October 2012

pennysuedog:
Keeping my fingers crossed!
MH had had to have one last spring.
BTW can you upload us a video of you after the procedure looped up farting? I think it will help liven up the board.

OMG I so did this is the recovery area. I was giggling like a 9 year old boy at the farts. MH was so embarassed - ha! Can you imagine the nurses in the recovery area seeing that every day?

jonnygurl76 · October 2012

nicki731:
pennysuedog:
Keeping my fingers crossed! 
MH had had to have one last spring.
BTW can you upload us a video of you after the procedure looped up farting?  I think it will help liven up the board.
OMG I so did this is the recovery area. I was giggling like a 9 year old boy at the farts. MH was so embarassed - ha! Can you imagine the nurses in the recovery area seeing that every day? 

It is so funny though because the nurses are encouraging you to fart! When I had my first one I had so much air that I insisted I had to poop. They brought me the bedpan and all I did was fart! Should be loads of fun tomorrow.

joolz17 · October 2012

Fingers crossed, JG!

Chunstad · October 2012

Talk about a silver lining! Hope that everything turns out good.

Creedon778 · October 2012

Yeah those aren't fun. Fingers crossed for all good news!!

morsey2011 · October 2012

Fingers crossed!

rous27 · October 2012

I know how you feel. I have had a few in the past. I actually can't drink the gallon of stuff without throwing it up. So the doctors would make me go two days without food! I balled my eyes out while I watched my mom eat (we were in a hotel room, so she had to eat in the same room). I still wasn't cleaned out enough so I got an enema. Hopefully you don't need to get one of those! Good luck!

jonnygurl76 · October 2012

rous27:
I know how you feel. I have had a few in the past. I actually can't drink the gallon of stuff without throwing it up. So the doctors would make me go two days without food! I balled my eyes out while I watched my mom eat we were in a hotel room, so she had to eat in the same room. I still wasn't cleaned out enough so I got an enema. Hopefully you don't need to get one of those! Good luck!

2 days!!! I would cry too, I am starving. I am just hoping to get some sleep, I have to be up to drink another Gatorade Miralax cocktail at 4:30am.

amyc216 · October 2012

I hope everything's ok! Good luck!

mamaZbo · October 2012

I remember the prep for those...by the end I was just sitting the pot while drinking the horrible stuff. I also remember trying to give myself an enema at 5 am the morning of (per doctors orders), and not being able to and crying for DH to help me out. Sad, sad, sad.

Good luck, I hope all goes well.

Nita2603 · October 2012

JG, how did it go?

I can relate, I get a colonoscopy every 12 to 18 months to keep an eye on the Crohn's. I always feel like the prep is worse than the whole deal.

I remember the first time though, I could feel it and was cursing up and down and the doctor kept telling me there was a lady in the room until I snapped he could call the shots if some azzhole was shoving up things in HIS azz.

I always wonder why they have to make you drink this poison - there must be a better way of doing that. At the very least, they could try to make ice cream or something tasty to start the process.....

jonnygurl76 · October 2012

I am waiting for my turn right now, my appt is for 10:30. I got maybe four hours sleep and I am just so tired, I want it to be over. The prep wasn't so bad, with the Miralax prep it just tastes like the Gatorade that you dissolve it in, so much better than the big gallon jug.

Scramblersmom · October 2012

Good luck to you and I hope that the tests shows everything as normal. The prep is worse than the exam! I ended up throwing up the last of the gallon of that horrible stuff.