Starting my colon prep!
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Anonymous
| First colonoscopy tomorrow. Wish me luck! |
Anonymous
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You'll do fine. Prep is the most difficult part, but you've figured that out by now.
The rest is just a short nap under sedation. Good luck, OP! |
Anonymous
My DH just did his last week. This description is accurate. Good job taking care of your health, OP! |
Anonymous
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It is the best nap you have ever taken and will take your mind of your super sore butthole.
You got the OP. |
Anonymous
| That made me LOL. OP here and I prepped the portal with some A&D; hopefully that will prevent some of the anal agony. Moving on to the suprep now. |
Anonymous
| Had my first one a couple of months ago. All other posts accurate! For me, there wasn't even a feeling of coming out of sedation. I swear my eyes snapped open and voila - bag of Cheezits in one hand and a bottle of water in the other. You got this! |
Anonymous
| Does everyone get sore bum? I haven't heard this mentioned. |
Anonymous
| Oh my god |
Anonymous
| How is this healthy |
Anonymous
Nope. I was a little out of it waking up, but there was no pain. |
Anonymous
| Jalapeño poppers as a last meal was a super bad idea. |
Anonymous
I have never heard that, and granted, I have only had it done once, but the only soreness was wiping so much from the prep, not the procedure itself. |
Anonymous
| I had mine last week and it was fine - good luck on yours! |
Anonymous
Suprep was, by far, the worst part of the prep for me. My doctor had me drink a bottle of magnesium citrate (I think that's what it's called?) before Suprep because he was worried I wouldn't be cleaned out enough due to my history of constipation. The magnesium drink made me queasy on an empty stomach, and then I had to start on the Suprep. I worked SO hard to choke it down and ended up throwing it all up 10 min later. My body literally rejected it. I called the nurse line all stressed out that I was going to have to reschedule after going through the 2 days of clear liquids only. Thankfully I still had time to switch to the Miralax/Gatorade prep which was a lot more liquid to get down but SO much easier for me because it didn't taste awful. Now I now for next time! I really can't believe anyone can drink Suprep. I am not at all prone to vomiting (threw up one time over 2 pregnancies, never get stomach bugs, etc.) but that stuff did me in. It is appalling to me that a company can make something that people are supposed to ingest that tastes so bad. It was like a combo of the worst cheap vodka, the 3 hour glucose drink, and Nyquil with a briny taste thrown in for fun. Never again. |
Anonymous
| PP are you saying there’s an alternative to superprep? If that’s the case, why don’t more people do it? |