Posted: 6/22/2009 12:07:19 PM EDT
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Do not wait until the morning after you start your cleanout to go to the drug store and get your Fleet enemas.
There may be a long line. 
Once you're cleaned out it's a piece of cake. Take some heavy socks along. Those operating rooms are COLD. They would have let me wear some if I'd brought them. |
If you start fasting a couple of days before the procedure you'll have less to clean out therefore less of the horrible tasting concoction to drink. After about a third of that big jug I was gagging thinking about having to drink anymore.  Oh- and when they tell you to stay close to a commode after you start the flush believe them!
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Everyone complains about "the night before" but for me, it wasn't a big deal at all. I took the prep stuff and even went to work that night against the pharmacist's recommendation. I had to go to the shitter a couple of times, that was it.
I remember the anesthesiologist saying "ok, lay on your side like this for me" and the next thing I knew I woke up and asked my wife and the doctor "can I eat now?" Totally nothing to be worried about. |
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I am 53 and it was not a big deal to me. Lots of people complain about drinking the laxative and spending time on the Hooter, I just took a book. I thought they were going to keep me awake so I could watch the monitor but I was out. Did not feel a thing, great drugs and my pipes were clean.
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Quoted: The procedure is a piece of cake. The prep the night before is the worst part. This. There was a thread on this in the last week or two. Be prepared to shit your brains out the night before. Depending on the drugs they give you, you might not even remember the procedure. |
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Had one about six years ago to find some problems I had. I got the camera from both ends (down the throat as well).
Don't remember a thing about the procedure, but as noted, X4,302.1 the prep SUCKS (more properly, it blows). Supposedly the stuff you drink now comes in "flavors", the stuff "GoLytely" I drank tastes like seawater, and you get about a gallon of it. Think of it as this: Force several cups of the stuff down your throat and be a step or two away from the toilet, cause when it hits, it'll be the Hammer of God to your intestinal tract and if you're not in diving range of the toilet, it's gonna be messy......... Repeat this step about eight times till you empty the jug. Now that you feel "ass raped", go to the doctor, where they actually do........ |
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I have one scheduled in two weeks.
Bowel prep options/alternatives..... http://www.endonurse.com/articles/bowel_preps/586_281feat1.html |
amen brother
I had one as a young marine because I had blood in stool turned out to be polyps. anyhow that night I was out with buddies at Mooses in Waikiki. I feel a woman come up behind me grab my arm and she is saying hmmm let me seeee, yep I recognize that ass. It was the hot blonde nurse that was in the procedure with me. We ended up dating until she got transferred. 
Pretty good to get a woman that has seen you with a tube in your ass 
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Yeah, I have to get it done on Thursday and I'm in my 20's 
I just hope the drugs they give me are REALLY good. Not too worried about the prep either as I kind of enjoy the shits every now and then. The prep was only midly uncomfortable, but don't be too far from the toilet. The meds worked fine, getting the scope stuffed up my butt didn't hurt at all. It was way easier than a prostate exam. Good luck, it'll go fine. |
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Nothing to fear. The scope is 2 meters long, but it's only about 7/8th of an inch diameter.
Find out if the doc will have you sleeping or simply sedated; the show is pretty cool to watch, and my doc talks to me during the procedure, describing what we're seeing. By the way - if the doc quack plans to do this without sedation, find another doc. There are still a few doing colonoscopies in their offices without sedation. That is not the way you want yours done. |
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+1 for socks, I kept mine on. Procedure was delayed for an hour because unlike most days when there was a 10% cancel rate everyone showed up to be anally probed.
Drugs were fast, next thing I know someone is pulling the telescope out of my butt. I suspect that the people bitching about the 'night before' really were full of shit. 
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They gave me golytely and said it can be mixed with gatorade or crystal light. +1 on the crystal light. It's a lemonade powder. Just make a pitcher full or two and pour it in the jug and chill for several hours. Pour it over ice. Still bad, but not as bad as without it. I just had my second one last Friday. Good luck. |
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Yeah, I have to get it done on Thursday and I'm in my 20's
I just hope the drugs they give me are REALLY good. Not too worried about the prep either as I kind of enjoy the shits every now and then. The prep was only midly uncomfortable, but don't be too far from the toilet. The meds worked fine, getting the scope stuffed up my butt didn't hurt at all. It was way easier than a prostate exam. Good luck, it'll go fine. You must something other than the "finger"? |
| As far as the prep, ask your doc if you can take the pills instead, I would have had a hard time drinking that much liquid so I went with the pills, they work, I didn't have unexpected ass blast, just felt like I needed to go and did, the second trip to the toilet is usually water as was the other trips after. It actually sounds worse than it really is. I got both ends done in January, upper EGD to check and found a good sized ulcer, the colonoscopy was clear, they inject you and it's lights out and when you wake up it's over, and you will have the farts! It's really not that big of a deal. |
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At some point during the prep you will ask yourself "All that came out of me that fast?"
It is a inconvience in that other than read a book or magazine (have several available) the prep pretty much rules you life for quite a few hours and some of the crud you have to drink isn't real pleasant . To be a buzz kill here ––-My mother died of colon cancer and I can asure you it is an ugly, ugly way to go I went home after , took a shower, then went and shot a rifle match. no big deal. Once you get it done you also get to have a bunch of fun with your other buddies that have had it scareing the crap out of folks who are faceing it for the first time. There should be a place to tack these threads so we don't have to re do it every three weeks. First time scope up the butt can I leave mags loaded What AR should I buy what caliber for SD What oil for my AR 9mm or 45 Gee ammo is expensive Eotech or aimpoint? What 22LR ammo for my ....... Fuck Obama |
