2-day prep

I've never gotten successfully prepped for a colonoscopy, fail every time. (except when I was hospitalized and on fluids.

Now they want me to do a two-day prep

Have you had success with it? What have you done? What are your experiences.

I either fail or barely "pass" the prep every time too, and my GI is also having me try the 2-day split dose prep next time so I'll be very interested to hear how you do with it.

Quincy and Sara,
I'm doing Magnesium Citrate the first night Sat. 14 and Suprep the second night and the morning before my scope

I'm already constipated. Worried sick. And BTW I can't afford this.

Ellen

Thanks for your sympathy, Sara14.

Ellen

Brown liquid! Coming down the home stretch!!

journey2health said...
Brown liquid! Coming down the home stretch!!

TMI ;-)

Good luck!

They still found stool. Arghh! But no signs of colitis. Happy colon.

Ellen

No, I will not do a gallon prep. I just throw it up. I did Magnesium citrate the night before the Suprep.

Are they giving you anti-nausea medicine with your prep? I used to be decent at prepping and now after doing I think 5 I have serious anxiety about it as I starting having issues and throwing up/not being able to complete the prep. Now they give me anti-nausea medication AND anti-anxiety. It is the ONLY thing that gets me through. I need to have a c-scope in the next 3 months and am already stressing about it in my head. I know it is all mental. I just can't get over it.

Post Edited By Moderator (iPoop) : 10/1/2019 6:03:06 AM (GMT-6)

I get serious anxiety over it as well. My next scope is not until next May or June and already when I think about it my heart starts pounding. I started having an anxiety attack in my GI's office in July when we were discussing it. I didn't think about getting anti-anxiety meds for the scope. What are you prescribed for it, if you don't mind posting?

Yes my GI doc gave me just one pill prescription. I can't remember what it was as I haven't had a cscope in 3 years, but I will be having one soon and will post when I get it. I already mentioned it again to the MA at my last GI apt and she said no problem, just remind them when I schedule my scope. It made a WORLD of difference. I also take a pill for flying to Europe as with age I started having almost claustrophobia type issues on long flights. Middle age sucks. I just take a 1/2 pill and it takes the edge off. Those are the only two times I ever take anything, so I don't see the harm. Plus stress/anxiety isn't good for UC! So it seems silly to make us suffer and risk flaring. I have no issue asking for what I need. I think all GIs should proactively as their patients how they take the prep. The first two times I was a trooper, but as I get older I think about it more and more and literally have a panic attack on the bathroom floor trying to take my prep and not throw it up. Why go through that?

Post Edited By Moderator (iPoop) : 10/1/2019 6:02:57 AM (GMT-6)

P.S. -- Journey -- glad your scope went well. Crazy that there was still stool. I've always used the gallon preps and thankfully it doesn't make me throw up.

😊