Do any of your GIs let you eat the day before a colonoscopy? (Article & research study)

My last couple GIs let me eat a light breakfast the day before my scopes. I'm getting a scope done Friday with a different doctor and the instructions say clear liquids all day, which I do terribly with so I'm going to eat a light breakfast anyway. I was Googling this and came across an article from 2016 about some studies done comparing people who were on the traditional all day long clear liquid diet versus a group who was allowed to eat a low-residue diet all day. The bowels of people eating the low residue diet actually looked cleaner than those on a clear liquids diet!

I was curious if anyone's doctors here let them eat the day prior. I really wish mine would.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/ritarubin/2016/05/24/mac-and-cheese-before-a-colonoscopy-yep-you-can-eat-solid-foods-the-day-before-getting-scoped/

Also, why are there so many different rules depending on where you go? Some places say nothing orange, blue, red or purple. My current doctor only says nothing red. I fully plan to drink orange Gatorade tomorrow.

I always eat the day before a colonoscopy. The way they do it here is you do one round of prep at 6pm the day before and a second round at 7am the morning before, then have the scope in the afternoon.
They give instructions about what not to eat for 4 days before (seeds etc), but one time i had an emergency colonoscopy at 24 hours notice and then obviously I couldn't control what I had eaten the previous 3 days (and thry didn't ask)

I start eating very light two weeks before the colonoscopy. The day before the procedure, I usually have apple sauce, clear chicken broth and maybe lemon or lime ices.

My dr won’t allow food the day before either. But some of the prep instructions say no food 24 hours before the procedure — not the whole day. So if your procedure is at 10 am, you can eat the day before at 9 am. I think I also learned that here.

So I now eat a light breakfast the day of my prep. I tell the nurses when I check in because they always ask. But I don’t tell my dr. I asked his nurse about it once and she said he wouldn’t allow it. I didn’t ask him directly tho.

I’m always cleaned out. But the preps all seem to be quite harsh on my system. I sit on the toilet for HOURS while prepping.

EXACTLY!!! 🤣

I'm not the right one to comment on this (yet here I am anyway, haha). I have a terrible time getting cleaned out. I failed the prep outright once and would have failed another time (was borderline) but I went into hysterics and my GI took pity on me and did as much as she could with the help of a couple nurses shifting me around this way and that. On other occasions I was "mostly" clear. So now I have to do a brutal 3-day prep. The day they invent a Star Trek version, I don't care how much it costs, sign me up!!

LOL! I could never do that. I have to eat low-fibre for the week before. But that's me and my messed up system.

Welcome to my prep party! Lol.

They didn't have me split it up into 2 parts this time but I have to confess I usually skip part 2 anyway and Ive always been fine. I'm doing GoLytely and Ive almost drank the whole gallon. Im pretty much clear/yellow now so i think im done drinking it.

Miralax prep made me super sick the one time I tried it. Like, lightheaded, lying on the bathroom floor feeling like I was going to pass out sick. Really scary and strange.

Can't wait to eat tomorrow afternoon.

I hadn't even had a BM yet when it happened to me if I'm remembering correctly. It was many years ago. Tomorrow will be my 10th scope! I feel like I should get a cookie or something.

NCPT, that sounds truly awful! I hope I never have to get one of those done.

That makes sense. I still hope I never need to have one because I am extremely claustrophobic. I can't even do elevators anymore unless I take a Xanax (or two). Luckily, it doesn't really impact my life much, but I've always feared needing an MRI someday!

Thank you!