question about colonoscopy prep - a little graphic

[Anonymous]

TLDR: Can you have the right color stool (clear and yellow) for a colonoscopy, but still have food in your stomach?

Saturday, I ate a fairly decent sized late lunch of refried beans and calabacitas (squash/zucchini, onion, tomato, corn) and chips/salsa, then for a late dinner I had about a 1/3 brick of tofu and some chickpeas. I went to a clear liquid diet Sunday morning and had only popsicles, broth & sorbet, and lots of water. I have had trouble with constipation the past couple of weeks so I started my prep a couple of hours early in case it took longer for everything to work its way out. I did the first dose of prep at 4 and didn't see much in the way of results, so did the second dose at 11pm. I woke up this morning and was still having cloudy elimination so I took a 3rd dose of another product (miralax). The elimination is now clearer, but I still can't believe how easy and quick it was which makes me worry the food I had Saturday is still sitting in my stomach. Is that possible?

[Anonymous]

Yes. Call the nurse line for advice. Ime they were very helpful.

[Anonymous]

If you haven’t been pooping increasingly liquid poop and then ultimately clearish liquid for several hours I don’t think you got it all out. I agree with the PP to call the nurse line.

[Anonymous]

Which prep method did you do?

[Anonymous]

I followed my prep guidelines perfectly and still seemed like it wasn’t completely clear. Turned out I had a pocket of diverticulitis where a little stuff remained. The doctor was ok with it and just noted it.

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone, I'm supposed to be there in an hour, so I'll go over it with them.

I took 2 doses of clenpiq, followed by the 3rd dose of miralax (which was 1/2 of 8.3oz bottle).

[Anonymous]

Op here - I explained everything and kept getting a green light. My nerves were calmed and the procedure went well. My notes say my “bowel prep was excellent”. I was mostly worried about aspiration. I’m not sure if I still had food in my stomach or not, but the colon was nice and clean. After hearing so many horror stories about prep, I really expected something a lot worse, so if anything I want to assure anyone that might read this that prep really isn’t that terrible. Thank you again for the answers.