Colonoscopy prep fail. Please help!

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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.

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Golytely is the worst. The pills aren’t great either. I have taken a dulcolax and miralax regimen and also magnesium citrate with dulcolax, which works the best for me.

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I have Kaiser. Primary doctor sad you're of age so time to have the procedure. I scheduled the appt and a nurse called me the next day to discuss prep. She emailed a video and written instructions as a follow up. I couldn't stomach the GoLytely so as a PP noted, used 2 stole softner tablets and Miralax mixed in the yellow Gatorade. The switched to a mostly liquid diet the afternoon before I started prep (clear broth, water and non dairy frozen lemon fruit bars ). I had the procedure first thing in the monring and was home by noon. I hightly recommend this route. If you need more info, Web MD has a good how to prep video.

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Sutabs are the best for me. Suprep made me gag and get deydrated. Sutabs were more gentle, but equally effective.

I did 48 hours of liquid diet prep due to being a "slow mover". I think this extra day of hydration helped avoid the typical dehydration I've experienced.

This past summer, 2 days before procedure, I did 10oz liquid magnesium OTC. Day before did normal Sutab prep w/addition of GasX with the Sutabs.

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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

I was having abdominal pain, so the doctor suggested a colonoscopy. If screening colonoscopies had been recommended (and covered by insurance) at age 40, perhaps the offending polyp could have been removed before it turned cancerous.

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The last time I did this, I used something called Moviprep. It was a liter at one time and a liter at another and it honestly was not awful.

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I was given movenprep and did not get fully cleaned out. I was panicked. The nurses told me that they basically spray up there to clean you out a bit anyway during the procedure and that the doctor would proceed with the procedure. It went fine but I’ll ask
For a different prep next time

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FYI, my Gastro prescribed Clean-Piq which is two 8 oz bottle that taste like berry flavored juice box mixed with pepto-bysmal. It was only mildly unpleasant as opposed to very unpleasant. But it was only 8 oz. You drink one bottle and the have to drink 40+ oz of water over the next 60 minutes for each "dose". In my case, I was already on the pot after 24-oz of water and by the end of the 40-oz, I was pretty cleaned. And I did that both times.

I would talk to your gastro and ask if they can prescribe Clean-piq instead of the horrible stuff. My wife had the horrible stuff and she was very envious that I got clean-piq instead and said that seemed much easier to take.

https://www.clenpiq.com/hcp/

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I used clenpiq. It requires two 6-oz. solutions followed by some glasses of liquid. It worked quickly with no nausea or cramping. I know not all insurance will cover it but I believe it’s about 100 out of pocket.

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Clenpiq was less to drink but it gave me a headache and made me horribly nauseous. MoviPrep was better but had to combine it with laxatives to get fully clean.

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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

I had no symptoms, no family history and no cancer marker in blood tests and still colon cancer found at my first screening colonoscopy. I thank god I didn’t fall for the cologuard. But most people aren’t so unlucky.

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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

I had no symptoms, no family history and no cancer marker in blood tests and still colon cancer found at my first screening colonoscopy. I thank god I didn’t fall for the cologuard. But most people aren’t so unlucky.

Why do you think Cololguard wouldn't have picked it up? You didn't use it, so why do you think that? Cologuard does pick up cancer DNA.

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Anonymous wrote:Clenpiq was less to drink but it gave me a headache and made me horribly nauseous. MoviPrep was better but had to combine it with laxatives to get fully clean.

I get nauseous easily and was surprised not to with clenpiq. My Dr prescribed that with a laxative 1 hour before. It was not at all as bad as I expected and ended up very clean. It was more expensive than superprep

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I feel like I've done every single prep mentioned above at least once. I'm 43, and I've been having colonoscopies about every 2 years since I was 20. I haven't done the Go-lightly in about 15 years. It's definitely the worst of the preps, and I'm always surprised when i see it behind the counter at the pharmacy. The go-lightly prep and the miralax prep both made me vomit. My last prep was the Sutab, which I was excited about trying because I thought it would be easier. It didn't work AT ALL. I ended up having to rush out to the pharmacy to get a bottle of magnesium citrate and redo the whole prep the morning of my procedure. The easiest preps for me are the ones with the two small bottles of liquid followed by multiple cups of water. Suprep, Prepopik, Clenpiq. The "flavor" has gotten better over the last 10 years, but none are great. If nausea is an issue, definitely ask your Dr for an antiemetic.

Anyway. OP - you need to call the office of the dr who is doing the procedure and tell them you want a different prep than what you had before. And if they won't talk to you about it, or they won't give you something else, then you need to call your primary physician and tell them that they need to refer you to someone else.

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My new GI discussed multiple options with me and asked a lot of questions about how I handled my previous prep years ago. Since I had nausea and no constipation, he prescribed a lower volume prep but I can’t remember the name. DH tends to be very constipated so his GI recommended taking 2 laxative pills for several days leading up to the prep to be certain he’d be clear.