Lose 5 pounds in a day? Colonoscopy time!

Well I will be having one soon, my 1st also. But my husband has had several and didn't seem to bad for him. I think the worst part is drinking the stuff and emptying the colon.

I hear they aren't as bad as you fear, here is a great account of it from Mark Cuban, every time I know someone who is going for their first I send them this blog entry.

http://blogmaverick.com/2007/06/14/my-colonoscopy/

I had one at 35 (my dad died from colon cancer pretty young). The prep day is the worst part...you have an entire evening in the bathroom...make sure you have something good to read and really soft tissue!! haha. The procedure itself is pain free and you are up and back to normal within minutes of finishing. Good luck to all of you...and congrats on taking good care of yourself!

prep day...HORRIBLE. DO NOT GO ANYWHERE...stay home. Seriously. But the procedure itself isn't bad at all

I've mad many, had my first when I was 14 (I know right). It's not that bad. Don't plan to leave your house the day/night before. Clear Gatorade was my best friend. I find the sedation really knocks me out for 2 days.... Enjoy!

I did mine without sedation or pain relief. I can't stand being sedated and not in control. (Yes, I am a control freak). Sedation also makes me very nauseous and I am out of it for the rest of the day.

Like people have previously said, stick close to a bathroom when doing the prep. Have bathroom wipes and Preparation H handy to soothe your bottom as toilet paper can be rough on tender tissues. I got that piece of advice from a website and really appreciated not having a sore bottom for the procedure.

From the same website, I took the advice of letting the nurse put in a saline lock in case I needed pain relief but I was able to get through the entire colonoscopy without any meds. I was a 53 year old woman who had a hysterectomy and that apparently increases the difficulty of the procedure. All of the nurses were rather shocked that I was doing this without any meds. I was told that I had a high pain threshold. I don’t know about that since I was a total wuss during the birth of my daughter.

Anyhow, back to the colonoscopy… I felt absolutely nothing until the first corner where the doctor had to pull back a few times to straighten out my bowel. That part was more uncomfortable than painful. I did have to take a few deep breaths but the sensation only lasted a second or two. The next corner was a lot easier and it was a piece of cake from there on. The bowel on the inside doesn't have any nerve endings so you feel more pressure than anything. It was very cool to watch the whole procedure on the screen.

I went home immediately after the procedure with no issues. I did not have to stick around for the sedation to wear off. Would I do it again? Absolutely in a heart beat! Being lucid, not fuzzy and in control was worth the few twinges I got during the procedure. You might want to discuss this with your doctor if you don't care for being out of it during a medical procedure. Then again, if you aren't a control freak like me and don't want to know a thing, be sure to ask them to knock you out.

They told me I didn't need sedation. THEY WERE WRONG!!! It was agony, but then my colon was covered in small ulcers.

I would take the sedation.

The prep was...interesting. Get some vaseline or similar for round your *kitten* as the stuff coming out burns.

You will feel 10lb lighter after the colon cleanse!

The tough part is the prep.
My doctor(and I assume all Drs) requires I eat nothing but dairy until noon the day before and then after noon, nothing except clear liquids.
At 6PM, you have to take something to start the purge and then drink quarts and quarts of gatorade to purge you.
Eventually what you drink looks exactly the same as what comes out 20 minutes later.
Then the next morning you repeat with a lower dose.

If your Dr knows anything, you will be given propefol, which is the stuff Michael Jackson was addicted to and I completely understand why. It is a memory drug and clears parts of your brain for you. You won't feel "high", but you won't have any memories of the negatives.

When you wake up, you will feel bloated because they use air during the procedure.

For some reason you can't leave until you urinate.
Once you do that, someone has to drive you home.
I tend to sleep for a few more hours then, I know some people that go back to work. They are crazy.

I can eat nothing at all the day before so that depends on the doctor. Example, I normally have mine on Mondays, so Saturday at 11:59 pm (midnight) I have to stop eating and am not allowed to eat until after the procedure (on Monday). My prep also started before 6 pm and I had none to do the morning of. I was not allowed to drink anything (water included) the morning of. Though they made me so I could pee for a pregnancy test. Didn't have to wait to leave because of that though, they practically kicked me out. First time that had happened. (I had told them I was feeling faint, light headed, and dizzy....they didn't listen and made me get up and in a wheelchair...I promptly fainted...that's not normal though. I have a history of randomly fainting)

Oh and one more thing you have to Fart before you go home too lol I dont know why but you do Its kinda funny becasue when you are laying there getting prepped there are people behind curtins that are in the recovery stage of it and youcan hear everyone farting hahahah

i had one done, did nothing for me...

Oh and one more thing you have to Fart before you go home too lol I dont know why but you do Its kinda funny becasue when you are laying there getting prepped there are people behind curtins that are in the recovery stage of it and youcan hear everyone farting hahahah

LMAO. My husband was farting away after the procedure and where did they put him? In the middle of a busy area of the hospital, with just a curtain cloth separating him and everyone else. I wondered if the staff do that purposefully for the laughs. We all a laugh at work, right?

I have had a few my first was about 20 years ago and that was difficult as all I could eat was clear soup for 3 or 4 days along with water.

The 2nd was about 10 years ago and the 3rd was about 5 years ago.

Times have changed and it was real easy just the day before of clearing the bowels a sedative on the day. All I remember of it is being asked to move this way and that way and I could see the whole thing on the monitor although I was a bit blurry eyed lol.

It`s only a small procedure, I shouldn`t worry too much about it...a couple of days after you will have forgotten all about it.

A bit of bloating, some gas and it is all done with. The most important thing to think about is if it can diagnose some thing important, then that is the meaning to it all and we are lucky that a mildly uncomfortable small procedure can do that.

Don`t lose any sleep over it!!

The morning of the procedure - after all the "prep" - will be an ideal time to weigh in. You will be empty. EMPTY.

I had hoped to live tweet my colonoscopy but had pulse monitors on my fingertips, which was a little disappointing. It's hideously undignified, but I enjoyed the drugs.

And have some gatorade for after, you'll feel better when you rehydrate.

I had one last year and it wasn't bad. I was put to sleep so I didn't even know... the worst part was the meds the day before.... my bottom was awfully sore... I made my husband go get baby wipes.