Colonoscopy

@painintheargh how did it all go?

Thank you. I'll be having all the drugs on offer which are fentenyl and Midazolam. I am extremely anxious but the pathway nurse has spoken to me lots on the phone and been lovely. She is going to see me in the morning.
I was in London yesterday for my birthday trip and had such a limited choice of food and have a headache already from lack of food. We had a very early start at 4.15am and I didn't get to sleep until gone midnight so I'm tired and don't want to be up all night tonight on the toilet.
Thankfully I have an en-suite and plan to stay in my room all day with Derry Girls on my phone with headphones. Ds will also be glued to a screen all day.
I just keep thinking that I can get through this because I've had 2 home deliveries with dc with just gas and air and been fine. The pain was horrendous in the night though. My poo is already liquid so I think the moviprep will soon work because there's nothing solid in there to start with!
I'm just very scared.

The prep is so much worse than the procedure itself. You will poop 💩 lots over a couple of hours. I pace around outside the toilet door to get things moving. Do not I repeat do not leave your house. If you have an ensuite do not even leave your bedroom. There are no limits to the amount of tv your dc can watch today. Do whatever you need to do in order to get through the next 24 hours
Watch tv/ Netflix to distract you. Play some music to distract you. Random fact- there are colonoscopy playlists on Spotify!
Hopefully nothing sinister going on but if there is then the earlier it’s found the better. The pooping itself is not too painful it’s more an intense sense of urgency and when it does come out it comes out with significant force, that you feel as if you’re getting ready for lift off. Hoping that you get the all clear. If you are able to be sedated then plz do so.

I've just found this thread and am starting my prep today for my procedure tomorrow. I took two bisocodyl at 11pm last night and was in the bathroom sweating, retching and cramping at 4.30am. I was amazed how quick those tablets worked. I took the second lot of bisocodyl at 8am today and the liquid prep is due to start at 2pm. I'm dreading it. Bisocodyl usually take 12 hours to work for me not 5!
How long did you poop for once the liquid started working and was it very painful? I'm dreading it after feeling so ill earlier on. I'm also extremely anxious about the procedure in terms of what they might find. I'm a lone parent to an 8 year old, had a fit test of 13.9 and my ferritin is 8 along with constipation. The constipation is hopefully due to changing my diet but because they did a fit test and it was positive I have to be scoped. Both ends. Lucky me!

I also remember managing the first jug surprisingly well but the second was hard going I thought it was never going to end

Drink it very slowly with small sips not gulps over an hour or more drink water after sip it is hideous and it will come out like a water fountain for hours it's the worse bit of the whole thing having a camera up there is positively pleasant after that let me assure you

Angle the straw to the back of your throat to miss your taste buds and chase it down with 7up free. Keep going op you need to get it done - this prep is the worst bit of colonoscopies

Keep going with it but drink it more slowly if you are being sick

Lots of people will tell you it works really quickly but it doesn't for everyone

I'd finished the 2nd jug before I started -but once I started I was glad I had an en-suite!

7 Up or drink with water and then have some 7 up to take away the taste. Sometimes I set time targets and chug a bit because I find drinking it slowly makes me feel worse for longer. I have a colonoscopy every few years so have had too much time to experiment with techniques!

If you have squash (not red coloured!) you can add that to help with the taste a bit, my system was - small glass at a time, add squash, couple of gulps through straw, then then water straight away, then quick suck of a lolly. When I did it it took me a lot longer than the suggested time to get through it all but that didn’t matter they said my prep was really good. So don’t feel like you have to rush.

Movi prep is vile and as others have said the worst part of the whole thing. I imagine its working by now. I found it a little easier to get through the rest once it had started taking effect.

Hope it all goes well tomorrow.

Make it with Sprite or 7-Up. Makes it much more palatable.
That's if you have to Still drink a 2nd one.

Make sure you drink loads of water. Maybe some lemonade after each jug of it?

Keep the prep in the fridge, use a straw and a champagne glass !

Following as I've just been told I have Lynch Syndrome and will need to have one of these every two years until I'm 75! Hope your's goes well OP.

Ice cold, straw, in a beaker/flask so you can't smell it.

It's unexplainably vile, good luck!

Had mine last week, as long as your broth is clear (ie no milk) you're fine. Black tea is fine. No milk products or blackcurrant. Good luck with bowel prep I never want to smell mango again!

I had one brought forward by a week so I hadn't done any sort of special diet at all up until I had to stop eating, and it was still ok. The prep solution dealt with it.

I work on an elective surgical ward and deal with a lot of bowel related surgeries.

Clear fluids include things that doesn't have bits etc in.
For example on my ward patients can have coffee but no milk, vegetable or chicken broths, apple juice with no pulp etc.

Basically anything that is sort of transparent hence why you can't add milk to tea or coffee. Even though your brother is coloured if you poured it you can normally see through it when less dense

It'll be fine but if you are worried just mention it to them in the morning so they are aware

You'll be fine. Just drink plenty. You can have consommé. Baxter's do one

is it like a creamy cup-soup?
a full colonoscopy or a sigmoidoscopy?
tell the nurse upon admitting, they might want you to have an enema before the procedure.
good luck.