Colonoscopy prep fail. Please help!

[Anonymous]

OP I had a similar experience. If you tend to be constipated sometimes the regular prep isn't enough. My doctor told me to try again and add an over-the-counter laxative, which worked well.

[Anonymous]

I would schedule a consultation with the doctor beforehand. I had one recently following a positive cologuard result, and step 1 was a video appt with the doctor. Then we scheduled the procedure. You can do that, too, and discuss with him/her your prep options.
I did the new pills. The effect is the same as the Surprep, just in pill rather than liquid form. If your next prep involves that type of clean out, you may ask about that option. Some insurers apparently don’t cover it yet as it is new, but mine did with no cost sharing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are pills for prep?

There are but it's like 40 of them.

Not 40 in mine. I took 12 pills at each stage of the prep, so 24 total. They are like capsule vitamins. Not bad at all. You drink water with them (or Gatorade if you want).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone just posted on here how a friend or neighbor just died of colon cancer and he said he had done the poop in a box thing and it missed his cancer. Poop in a box won't catch precancerous polyps as I understand it.

Color guard only detects blood in the sample. Precancerous polyps don’t bleed. Slow growing, relatively large, cancerous tumors sometimes bleed. The colonoscopy removes the polyps, some pre-cancerous, before blood is present in a sample and before it can become cancerous.
I do not understand how Colorguard gives any peace of mind (unless you only want to know when you have a big ole bleeding tumor).

It's called Cologuard, not colorguard. Color guard is a flag ceremony.

Secondly it has nothing to do with blood at all. It picks up cancerous DNA, not blood. What it doesn't do is detect precancerous polyps, which can turn into cancer. It's repeatee every 3 to 5 years, unlike a colonoscopy, which is every 10.

Yes, most insurances pay for a colonoscopy if Cologuard finds something.

You just made a lot of cr@p up here, pardon the pun.

[Anonymous]

You need a different provider. If you really did what they said.

I am sorry that you have to go through this.

It happened to me once (because they had NOT given me prep instructions).

Capital Digestive Care is good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need a different provider. If you really did what they said.

I am sorry that you have to go through this.

It happened to me once (because they had NOT given me prep instructions).

Capital Digestive Care is good.

Agree with this. While there isn't that much difference between the preps, Golytely is known be to be the least effective. I am surprised that it is still being prescribed. Do you have any underlying conditions?

Sorry you have to go through this again. I would strongly recommend going to Capital Digestive Care. Jennifer Lang over there is an amazing nurse practitioner and great at hand holding. I see Dr. Kirk who is fabulous too. I am a yearly colonoscopy person and highly recommend them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone just posted on here how a friend or neighbor just died of colon cancer and he said he had done the poop in a box thing and it missed his cancer. Poop in a box won't catch precancerous polyps as I understand it.

Yes--please get the colonoscopy. Mine discovered a very small tumor that was causing no symptoms that never would have been picked up by a stool test. Colon cancer is the most preventable cancer there is.

Yet, so many die from it every day

This x 1,000.

ColoGuard has low sensitivity for detecting colorectal cancer (70%-75% using colonoscopy as the criterion standard). Sensitivity is also low for precursor lesions, approximately 20% to 25% for advanced adenomas and less than 5% for advanced sessile serrated polyps. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771036/

I have no colon cancer in my family and no known risk factors but was diagnosed (via colonoscopy) at age 44. Thank God it was caught at stage III, which is not early but I'm lucky enough to still be here 7 years later.

How? Until recently, the recommendation was 50. Now it's 45. I would assume there had to have been some circumstances that led you to have a colonoscopy at 44

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone just posted on here how a friend or neighbor just died of colon cancer and he said he had done the poop in a box thing and it missed his cancer. Poop in a box won't catch precancerous polyps as I understand it.

Color guard only detects blood in the sample. Precancerous polyps don’t bleed. Slow growing, relatively large, cancerous tumors sometimes bleed. The colonoscopy removes the polyps, some pre-cancerous, before blood is present in a sample and before it can become cancerous.
I do not understand how Colorguard gives any peace of mind (unless you only want to know when you have a big ole bleeding tumor).

It's called Cologuard, not colorguard. Color guard is a flag ceremony.

Secondly it has nothing to do with blood at all. It picks up cancerous DNA, not blood. What it doesn't do is detect precancerous polyps, which can turn into cancer. It's repeatee every 3 to 5 years, unlike a colonoscopy, which is every 10.

Yes, most insurances pay for a colonoscopy if Cologuard finds something.

You just made a lot of cr@p up here, pardon the pun.

Yep. I just received my cologuard and my doctor told me if I pooped in the box I'd get a test in 3 years and if I did the colonoscopy it would be 10. I'm only 45 and have no risk. I think I'm going to poop in the box.
Did recommend getting colonoscopy when I turn 50 however just to be safe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Not 40 in mine. I took 12 pills at each stage of the prep, so 24 total. They are like capsule vitamins. Not bad at all. You drink water with them (or Gatorade if you want).

That sounds amazing. I don't know what mine was called but it was the old school prep with two gallon containers of water that I mixed with powder, one at night, one in the morning (or middle of the night). It was awful. I definitely knew I was cleaned out and was dry heaving with basically water coming out by the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need a different provider. If you really did what they said.

I am sorry that you have to go through this.

It happened to me once (because they had NOT given me prep instructions).

Capital Digestive Care is good.

Agree with this. While there isn't that much difference between the preps, Golytely is known be to be the least effective. I am surprised that it is still being prescribed. Do you have any underlying conditions?

Sorry you have to go through this again. I would strongly recommend going to Capital Digestive Care. Jennifer Lang over there is an amazing nurse practitioner and great at hand holding. I see Dr. Kirk who is fabulous too. I am a yearly colonoscopy person and highly recommend them.

I don't thinks it's anyones first choice (doctor or patient) but unfortunately it's the cheapest option and therefore it's what a lot of insurances cover. I did Golytely last year for mine, because my insurance wouldn't cover the Suprep that my GI orginially ordered, and it. is. awful. SO much volume, so terrible tasting. It worked, at least. This year I paid like $100 out of pocket to get the Suprep, since it's less volume. It was still extremely unpleasant, though. Also effective. I'm going to push for a pill version next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Not 40 in mine. I took 12 pills at each stage of the prep, so 24 total. They are like capsule vitamins. Not bad at all. You drink water with them (or Gatorade if you want).

That sounds amazing. I don't know what mine was called but it was the old school prep with two gallon containers of water that I mixed with powder, one at night, one in the morning (or middle of the night). It was awful. I definitely knew I was cleaned out and was dry heaving with basically water coming out by the end.

That's Golytely. It's horrendous. I would take 40 pills if that's what it took to avoid the Golytely again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone just posted on here how a friend or neighbor just died of colon cancer and he said he had done the poop in a box thing and it missed his cancer. Poop in a box won't catch precancerous polyps as I understand it.

Color guard only detects blood in the sample. Precancerous polyps don’t bleed. Slow growing, relatively large, cancerous tumors sometimes bleed. The colonoscopy removes the polyps, some pre-cancerous, before blood is present in a sample and before it can become cancerous.
I do not understand how Colorguard gives any peace of mind (unless you only want to know when you have a big ole bleeding tumor).

It's called Cologuard, not colorguard. Color guard is a flag ceremony.

Secondly it has nothing to do with blood at all. It picks up cancerous DNA, not blood. What it doesn't do is detect precancerous polyps, which can turn into cancer. It's repeatee every 3 to 5 years, unlike a colonoscopy, which is every 10.

Yes, most insurances pay for a colonoscopy if Cologuard finds something.

You just made a lot of cr@p up here, pardon the pun.

Yep. I just received my cologuard and my doctor told me if I pooped in the box I'd get a test in 3 years and if I did the colonoscopy it would be 10. I'm only 45 and have no risk. I think I'm going to poop in the box.
Did recommend getting colonoscopy when I turn 50 however just to be safe

poop in the box? literally? i thought you send in small sample.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are pills for prep?

There are but it's like 40 of them.

Not 40 in mine. I took 12 pills at each stage of the prep, so 24 total. They are like capsule vitamins. Not bad at all. You drink water with them (or Gatorade if you want).

That sounds good. I throw up those liquid preps. I’d rather use Miralax and fast for a week before drinking that stuff again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone just posted on here how a friend or neighbor just died of colon cancer and he said he had done the poop in a box thing and it missed his cancer. Poop in a box won't catch precancerous polyps as I understand it.

Color guard only detects blood in the sample. Precancerous polyps don’t bleed. Slow growing, relatively large, cancerous tumors sometimes bleed. The colonoscopy removes the polyps, some pre-cancerous, before blood is present in a sample and before it can become cancerous.
I do not understand how Colorguard gives any peace of mind (unless you only want to know when you have a big ole bleeding tumor).

It's called Cologuard, not colorguard. Color guard is a flag ceremony.

Secondly it has nothing to do with blood at all. It picks up cancerous DNA, not blood. What it doesn't do is detect precancerous polyps, which can turn into cancer. It's repeatee every 3 to 5 years, unlike a colonoscopy, which is every 10.

Yes, most insurances pay for a colonoscopy if Cologuard finds something.

You just made a lot of cr@p up here, pardon the pun.

Yep. I just received my cologuard and my doctor told me if I pooped in the box I'd get a test in 3 years and if I did the colonoscopy it would be 10. I'm only 45 and have no risk. I think I'm going to poop in the box.
Did recommend getting colonoscopy when I turn 50 however just to be safe

poop in the box? literally? i thought you send in small sample.

You do. It’s very simple and sanitary. Free to ship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Not 40 in mine. I took 12 pills at each stage of the prep, so 24 total. They are like capsule vitamins. Not bad at all. You drink water with them (or Gatorade if you want).

That sounds amazing. I don't know what mine was called but it was the old school prep with two gallon containers of water that I mixed with powder, one at night, one in the morning (or middle of the night). It was awful. I definitely knew I was cleaned out and was dry heaving with basically water coming out by the end.

That's Golytely. It's horrendous. I would take 40 pills if that's what it took to avoid the Golytely again.

PP here and same!!