Colonoscopy prep starts today...... anyone else?

[Justwingingit2005]

Procedure tomorrow at 915. Prep starts at 5pm!

Dh had one recently and his prep started 2 days before, with a low fibre diet. The day before, he was not allowed any food after a light breakfast at 8am, just liquids, and had to take the picolax at 12pm and 6pm. This was for a procedure at 9.30 the next morning! The laxative wasn’t as bad as he feared i.e. he did have time to get to the loo! He was quite hungry, though. Good luck with yours. Dh only had gas and air and found it uncomfortable, but not painful.

I can eat low fibre until 1pm then first jug at 5pm then second at 9pm.
They asked me on the phone if I wanted sedation or just gas and air. Will see how I feel tomorrow!

Have a good read through what you can and cannot drink ( darker coloured drinks are not , they stain the bowel lining)

When you make up the jug of the prep ( my last one was 2 litres ) and after the first couple of glugs you think I cannot neck 2 litres of this filth
Its like a lemon-ey bicarbonate of soda (basically tastes like drinking kitchen cleaner)

And IIRC , an extra lot of water .

Some people drink it chilled or through a straw . For me it was better to drink a shotglass ( so a mouthfull) and either water or cordial ( I used Pink Lucazade) to chase it .

Then you sit very very near the loo .
With Sudocream.

I didn't feel faint or sick, I felt hollow and floaty

I have had 2 with sedation and one with nothing
It pinches /cramps
I'd recommend sedation, you just float off and think meh

I will likely need another one soon (Oh Joy)

Definitely take the sedation OP, I cannot emphasise this enough 😂
The whole thing is a blur.

My very stoic elderly mother used to insist on having it without the sedation do she could get the bus home on her own after...I honestly don't know how she did it!!

My very stoic elderly mother used to insist on having it without the sedation do she could get the bus home on her own after...I honestly don't know how she did it

I'm very surprised they let her do this - when I had mine I had to leave in a taxi or be driven (and as I'm the only driver in the house , its taxi)

My adult DS was my chaperone , they checked first how I was getting home and was I accompanied .
(I bribed him with sweets and left him with his phone in the waiting room)