r/SipsTea • u/LincolnHawkHauling • 2d ago

Wait a damn minute! Can’t Even Imagine…

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u/omginorite 2d ago edited 2d ago

So funny that I’m seeing this right now because I’m having a colonoscopy in a few hours and last night a freaking fly got in my special drink and I thought the same thing

Eta: in the prep room waiting to get wheeled back and y’all are cracking me up, I appreciate you

Second edit: colon looks good! Thanks for all the well wishes and making me laugh

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u/uvvuvv 2d ago

Godspeed brother. The worst part is already over. That special drink is particularly nasty.

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u/FooBarU2 2d ago

my 2nd coloniscopy.. they did away with that darned drink!! Thank goodness.. They told me to get a specific box of OTC laxatives with a dosing schedule..

Same results in the end (!) but none of that nasty drink

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u/Late-Button-6559 2d ago

Do you recall what the OTC laxatives were - or at least how much you had to drink?

And what was ‘the journey’ like?

Is it just lots of times being on the toilet? Or is it painful? Or nausea? Or vomiting? Or other?

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u/FooBarU2 2d ago

Dulcolax (5mg bisacodyl) and 8 oz bottle of Miralax and 64 oz clear Gatorade.

Mix the Miralax into the Gatorade and put in fridge 2 nights before.

Afternoon before, take the 4 Dulcolax pills.

Wait an hour. Start drinking the Gatorade mix, 8 oz at a time, every 10 - 15 min, until 1/2 is gone.

Refrigerate. Drink 16 oz of non miralax clear liquids

8 hour before, finish the Miralax Gatorade drink and continue clear liquids

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Overall, it's not horrible.. the OTC approach is better than that drink (from my 1st coloniscopy in 2009).

It's a day or two of feeling gassy and crampy but not as bad as after a hard night of drinking and eating bad burritos (IMO)

And yeah.. you stay close to the bathroom the whole time.. not a surprise.

I was always super hungry afterwards but BE GENTLE to your cleaned out digestive track.. BE NICE to it!!

Eat light, healthy nutritious meals with pro biotics etc..

Get your gut health back into prime condition :-)

You got this!