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Colonoscopy tomorrow & took fleet phospho 7hrs ago and nothing going on!!???

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melsy · 01/12/2009 00:59

I took fleet phospho soda at 6:30 this evening, shouldnt I be running to the bathroom by now? Or have some experienced a longer delay?

Really need sleep , but concerned I might have an accident in bed . Do I just go to sleep on a towel and see if anything happens further into the night.

Leaflet says to call a Doc if nothing happens after 6hrs!!

Ive already had a jug of water since the fleet and a mug of consomme! I stopped solids at 3 this afternoon.

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eieio · 01/12/2009 01:03

Just bumping for you!

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melsy · 01/12/2009 01:05

Thank you eieio

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melsy · 01/12/2009 01:05

is your name in a song? Seems familiar!

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eieio · 01/12/2009 01:10

It's Old MacDonald. He had a farm. Eieio.

I need to have a routine colonoscopy meself and I was thinking of posting to ask how to make the preparatory business more, erm, comfortable! So will be interested to hear how you get on How are you feeling?

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melsy · 01/12/2009 01:19

My stomach is very noisy , but nothing going on. My mouth is very dry despite drinking loads. So very tired and woozy.

OH GAWD, I really really dont fancy going to local A&E shit hole right now, pardon the pun.

DH said about an hour ago , trust me for something not to work properly for me! Gah hes ever so helpful!

Hes probably now snoring on the sofa!

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melsy · 01/12/2009 01:21

I notice my articulation is as good as ever, not, lol!

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eieio · 01/12/2009 01:26

Ring NHS Direct - they are great. Google for the number. They might get a locum doc to ring you.

chamoiscreased · 01/12/2009 01:28

haha don't worry, all of a sudden it will take effect and you will wonder why you ever asked this question!

eieio · 01/12/2009 01:29

I'm being an insomniac, so forgive me if I keep disappearing. Trying to sleep . Hope you get it sorted, though. Thing is, it is a medicine you've taken, so you need to know what to do from a medical person.

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melsy · 01/12/2009 01:42

you are probably right chamo , but this is unfamiliar territory!

Looks like Im doing a good impression of an insomniac to eieio!

It says on leaflet if nothing happens , to stop & not take the next dose , which is due in about 4hrs!

Im waiting for a call back on my mob soon, so as not to wake whole house on landline!

night Im having lol!!

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eieio · 01/12/2009 11:08

How was it Melsy? Did you get through the night OK?

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melsy · 01/12/2009 14:03

Well unsurprisingly as soon as the nurse had got off the phone from me , having suggested I drink another glass of water, the floodgates opened and opened and opened!

I ended up sleeping on the bathroom floor in bursts, as had to be that close to the loo!

and the joyous moment came when I puked up half the contents of my 6am bottle of fleet at 7am to add the wonderfulness of clearing out!

Im now the proud owner of a 6st13lb body!!

I need some food!

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eieio · 01/12/2009 18:21

OH god, it's horrible, isn't it? Have you had the colonoscopy as well? I think the laxative is by far the worst part.

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