Colonoscopy Tomorrow - but hey, why do the prep?

I was diagnosed with mild UC via scope in 2005.  For two years because it was so mild I wasn't on any meds.  However, then I started seeing blood and mucus.  Had another scope in 2007 for that and the doc then put me on Asacol.  Thinking back now, I really should of requested rectal meds because that is where the inflammation was found.  But the GI doc didn't push it and once I started popping Asacol pills, one week later all blood and mucus are gone.  Since then for the past two years I would average 1 to 3 bowel movements a day, solid, no blood no mucus, always in the a.m.  Then about two weeks ago I started getting softer more frequent stools in the morning.  Slowly but surely things began to slide down hill.  Than yesterday is when everything crashed, diaherra like pure water everytime I eat or drink anything.  No blood or mucus but man, I'm talking about I took my zinc vitamin pill this a.m. and it came out 30 minutes later.  Just so happens that my regular two year colonoscopy is tomorrow a.m.   My prep starts at 3 today.  It should be a breeze, I mean what possibly more can come out?  Well, gotta to mix that Movi Prep and get it chilled.  To think that I spent $20 on Movi Prep that at this point in the game a cup of coffee would of given me the same results!

Zurich

 

Ah thanks Judy, I recall you just did the MoviPrep yourself .... so you should know!  Zurich

Get out of Dodge! I didn't know that .... you know some people talk about not taking the full dose because they are smaller in size so they don't have to. Personally I thought that as long as you were running clear you were cleaned out. Not anymore, I'm taking the full dose if it kills me.
Zurich

dont forget the vaseline!
keep it next to the toilet and put your toilet paper in the freezer... for when your tender little bumhole burns like a #@$%#@$

That's a fact Jack Dr-A. I got two liters of Movi Prep chilling and am wondering if I will be able to get to the second one in refrigerator after I finish up the first. I am telling you - this is such a shame what we have to go through with medical testing - it almost seems barbaric in a way. My son is 8 and he had to go with me and his father when his father needed a colonoscopy. He was allowed in to see his dad and was there when the doctor showed us the pictures of his colon. Which by the way were clean as a whistle (mind you his father passed from colon cancer and his sister is known as a "polyp producer" on her last scope they found 12 polyps and 8 the year before that). But the doctor said to me and my husband that colonosopy is an excellent screening tool for over the age of 50 if colon cancer runs in the family. My 8 year old looked at the doctor and said "is somone going to have to shove a tube up my hinie hole when I turn 50?". The doctor looked at him and said "I don't know - we will have to wait and see". Good Lord, if the medical establishment hasn't developed a more human set up for colon screening in 50 years than our kids are in trouble.

You think I'm rambling now ---- wait until I take that first glass of MoviPrep in the next 40 minutes! LOL

Zurich

2nd cup down ... who ever discontinued the phososoda ought to be shot.  One bottle of that stuff and you were good to go.  2 liters is too much to drink.  Honest to heaven - if this isn't what the Windex with Lime taste like ... I don't know what is! LOL!

Zurich

oh my goodness this sucks....I am so happy I can complain here. I don't think I will ever be able to smell the scent of lemon again......I have finished glass #3 and have another beside me now to drink a little at a time becasue gulping it all at once is bad......hmmm I think law breakers should have to do this as punishment. Anyway how you guys doing? I will put off having another colonoscopy if the prep is gonna be this vile. The last time I did it with phoso soda it was so easy done in 1/2 an hour. The comment about slimy goat spit is accurate! LOL

Ok, just finished my fourth glass making 1 liter. Judy, I need help here, I am feeling so bloated I am honestly wondering how the heck I can get down another liter in an hour and a half. Packardez - talk to me brother ... BREATH! BREATH!

Probably the bloating will be better by then, because you'll be flushing most of that liquid in the meantime. If not, I'd just wait another hour to start it. You might not get any sleep tonight, but then you'll be taking a nice restful nap tomorrow, right?

Ooh, I don't think Versed would be so good for the prep - even if it didn't make you sleep, you might forget you needed to stay really close to the bathroom!

Haha. It's always a rough deal. I was just glad I had a laptop and a fresh pack of cigarettes. I did the whole 12 hours in the bathroom and those two crutches made it a lot easier. Hang in there.

Ok, I just finished my first cup on my second liter. I like you Judy am running clear but I am going to finish up this second liter cause I don't want to be told tomorrow that I am not properly cleaned out and to come back. Now remember I did have diaherra since yesterday afternoon anyway so personally I thought I was cleaned out even before I started the prep! I don't have a laptap that I can take into the bathroom but I do get breaks in the action wherein I can put in a load of laundry, feed the dog, come on the computer, take out the trash (although I did have to do a butt squeeze and run back on that one). When I am in the bathroom my son insists that I play the Polar Bowling Nintendo DS Download with him as he sits outside the bathroom door. So, that is my form of entertainment while on the throne. Drat! Seven Minutes till the second cup. Is there no justice in life?
Zurich

hi uys HURAH!!!! I am finished...man that SUCKED...that stuff is yucky to say the least.....I had to gear up for it each time and it got harder and harder to suck it down......man I am glad that is done and nice light yellow clear lemon pee comin outta my bum....just lovely. Hope you are all feeling as good now....and at least tomorrow is the fun part of the test. I love the drugs they give you...at least we had that to look forward too HUH!!!! Have agood night all....Donna

ooops meant GUYS....don't you just feel like a winner now that all that drink is gone....thank goodness for the internet because by talking and griping about it, it sure made it easier. Can you imagine this.....colon prep parties at a school gym (where they have enough stalls to accommodate)....... hmmmm great sitcom sketch. Pick your own flavor of choice, with chug a "go~lytely" games and a bar tender serving up our next dose.....Hey anything to get you through it I'd say! Right. Ok have a good evening and best results for all of you tomorrow. Thanks for the chatting!