Eating day bf colonoscopy?

If I remember rightly, you could eat up to 12pm the day before a morning colonoscopy and 5pm before an afternoon one. So you should be more than fine with breakfast: just keep it low residue.

My preps were started at 10 am or 1 pm the day before. They want you "cleaned out" docolax, mirilax,64 oz of gatoraide ect You probably can have something light. It's going to be extricated any how, They get freakier the day of no nothing food and liquid wise. Anesthesia and all makes them nervous.
just went through this for surgery. I told em that no liquids between midnight and 11 am was too long, I was allowed to move the time past mid night for liquids. you have to ask to deviate from the norm or they can and do cancel for prep violations.

Resection was good, Face lift and tummy tuck a failure, its like they didn't do it.:) yeah when they were prepping me i did tell them that's why I was there.

T

Better Living Through Chemistry

Having Crohn's and being a surgical nurse I can tell you the proper prep is clear liquids only the day before the procedure, start drinking the prep around 3-4 that afternoon then nothing by mouth after midnight. Nothing red or purple and nothing with pulp. Good luck with your test!

Well not everyone is from the UK, so do it your own way then, but don't go telling others their way is wrong.

Thanks all for your replies!! It is DONE and OVER with thank goodness!! I ended up drinking a boost for the breakfast Yesterday morning and then clear liquids the rest of the day. And drink my gallon drink last night, I started it at 6pm, wish I would of started at 4 cause I was still pooping at midnight. I never said anything to them about drinking the boost, my stool was coming out clear so figured it all turned out ok!! I am glad I drank it, cause taking my pills on an empty stomach always makes me nausous. So my Colonoscopy turned out showing active disease, had some ulcers in my colon and most of the inflamation was in my TI which I figured. So now on to my new venture, I am going to try the worm eggs and be part of the study I can drop out at any time but am holding hope that it helps me.... My doc. feels it is pretty promising... if not I am on to Biologics!!!! Wish me luck! And again thanks for you input!

I just followed the instructions my doctor gave me. For me it was really just not eating for a day and half, only because I had a stinking 2:30pm appointment. Next time I'll have a morning one. It was hard though, and I did feel like it was all over kill (since I was having so much diarrhea anyway). But I didn't want to mess it up in fear of having to do that again, that would have been worse then not eating that day before! I just focused on my meal for afterwards!

I'm glad it went well for you JLCat! I wish you luck with the worm eggs! I hope it helps you. I'm starting biologics tomorrow (Humira). Hope we can both find some relief!

For me, it's necessary if I want to be in a whole lot less pain, and when I expressed to the OP how I prepare for MY preps and then you chime in saying it's not necessary is simply you disregarding the simple fact that for some of us it IS necessary, just because you don't understand why it is, doesn't mean it's not. And as far as the specifics about breakfast or not, that's irrelevant to sharing my experiences because of the simple fact that I've tried it that way many moons ago and it killed my insides after drinking the prep later that day. What the point is, that you can seem to grasp, is you intentionally disregard and discredit what some people share when it comes to their own experiences with their disease and that is not cool! It's ridiculous to generalize what the experiences of having CD is, when this disease is so individual.

That's my point bananagirl, I wouldn't generalize when it comes to IBD and that's why we share OUR experiences, not discredit what does help some people just because someone else doesn't think it's "necessary" might not be for them but for others it is.

Thanks, ambling.

Most of my colonoscopies have been afternoon ones, so I've eaten food and drunk non-clear fluids up to 5pm the day before without any issues - my preps have always been described as good. My original correction was addressed to Nur531, so if anyone should take what I said personally, it's her.

You might need to move state Jen77 ;-)

It does vary from country to country, and even doctor to doctor. I think for those who might have diarrhea and are already on low residue diets there is less need for aggressive clean-out. The preparation procedure, as explained to me by many G.I's, is for the average person with a possibly 'well loaded' intestinal tract. Nonetheless I tend to follow whatever prep sheet I'm given.

Don't care what you think ambling, and I'm not the one bashing, if you read the replies, she's basically bashing by saying the way I fast is not necessary, does she live in my body??? No, so how does she know if it's necessary or not. I should be able to share my experiences without some know it all saying it isn't necessary for me to do things the way it works best for me which is basically discrediting what I'm sharing. This is the healing well forum not the NCOT forum.

And by the way ambling, none of my prep sheets have ever mentioned eating breakfast, maybe you and NCOT need to realize that not everyone gets the same prep or instructions...or has the identical crohn's issues.

Might be worth the move to have some breakfast! ;) I wonder why it's different in different countries, that's so very interesting. The day I did my prep I told my Mom that it was written for people like her, that are trying to move concrete blocks from their system! I was probably cleaned out before I even drank the prep. And I KNOW I was cleaned out that night, but still had to drink the other half of that stuff the next morning. Way over kill, but I was scared not to do it for some reason. My luck he'd find the one piece of sandwich in there from the other day or something. lol