Please give me ideas to get through this!!

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I'm having an urgent colonoscopy tomorrow morning. I've felt so unwell for months but today was a bad day before the moviprep! I've managed a litre but it was late. I now need to have another litre and I honestly feel so sick it's gross.

Here's the tmi, I love had a scope before and it took a so long to get to the clear yellow water bit, this time I've got there already. It was basically in the first bm after I took the moviprep. Do I need to have the second disgusting salty orange drink?

Also I'm having a gastroscopy tomorrow morning before the colonoscopy and I'm really worried about that. Will I be sick with the camera? I'm having sedation but obviously it needs to be light enough for you to actually follow instructions :/

You need to have it all unfortunately.

Tip I read on here, use a straw and suck as hard and fast as possible getting as much down in one go as you can. Using a straw it hits the back of your throat, rather than passing over your tongue, so you don’t taste it as much.

Awful stuff. I hope all turns out to be ok

@Idontlike thanks. I'll go get it now

Op please don't worry about the gastroscopy it's a really quick procedure and if you're having sedation you'll be slightly aware of what's happening but you won't care and once it's over you won't remember it.
You may gag a bit as the scope goes past tor throat but that's completely normal and you'll have an empty stomach so you won't be sick.

The staff are really experienced and will know what to do if you start to panic so don't worry, honestly it takes a few minutes even with biopsies if they need to take them, it'll be over in no time.

@TinaWeymouthsBass thanks that actually incredibly helpful

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Good luck for tomorrow. The prep is horrible but it'll be worse if you don't take it all and then they can't get a clear view.

I've had both of those before, the prep is worse than the tubes, honestly with the sedation you'll be absolutely fine to respond to them but little to no memory of it afterwards.

I found making the prep as cold as possible helped too as it didn't taste quite so bad.

You got this

*tubes = scopes

I had a moment where I couldn't think of the word!

Ok v cold, a straw and chug chuf chug. Ignore instructions about pacing, just get it down.

My sneaky tip... Suck a lemon wedge before you put your straw in your mouth. Keep the lemon taste in your mouth as you insert the straw. On taking straw out, suck another bit of lemon.

You will hate lemon flavourings for a good while but this has got me through loads.

I absolutely get what you're saying - I was supposed to have a colonoscopy last month. They sent me the prep, I took one mouthful & was violently sick! I'm now going in to the radiology department Monday but that's looking doubtful because my mum has been admitted into hospital this week and I'm the only one to visit her. Such a nightmare! I don't have time for this 'cleaning out your bowels' malarky over a 2 day period tbh.. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I think I'd rather have a colonoscopy every week than I would have another gastroscopy. I just couldn't stop gagging! I felt awful for the poor dr I just couldn't stop

Sounds awful OP.
It’s over now, I hope the results will all be ok.