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Glad to help. BTW, you're going to love the Clenpiq. Important: the instructions say don't refrigerate it, keep it at room temp. It actually tastes decent and you only have to drink 5 oz of it each dose. I kept waiting for something really bad to happen (because of all the horror prep stories on the Interwebs). Nothing bad at all! Hope it goes as easily for you.
I still haven't gotten rescheduled and frankly it's dropped from the top of my list...anyway, I can't seem to get hold of the right person at the right time and whenever they call I'm at work in a meeting or something. I've gotten out of the right order of how things are done so they don't really have me in their process.
But in the meantime I've been wondering - do "emergency" colonoscopies ever have to be done on short notice? How are those handled?
And how do the super-rich have this done? I can't imagine someone like Trump or otherwise wimpy, spoiled, rich people putting up with prep like this! I have to think they have some kind of alternative....if I just had enough money, would this be easy?
I didn't want to be sedated and my doctor originally set this up so that I wouldn't even talk to anyone beforehand, just get the prep and go to the clinic. But in this case I really needed to talk to someone who'd be willing to do it without sedation, etc.
Short version: Special consult still didn't prepare me for vomiting up the first of the split doses...now have to reschedule the procedure. How can I do better next time given I am typically constipated all the time and the extra stuff I did was of no help with the gagging/vomiting? Should I just do ColoGuard? I actually didn't want to do that before because with my constipation I don't have a regular morning kind of thing so it would be hard to do it, prepare the sample and get it in the mail as fast as is necessary.
Remember if you go the ColoGuard route, you still may need to get a Colonoscopy anyway.
You want the sedation for the colonoscopy. The whole procedure lasts about 30-45 minutes.
From prep room to recovery room. The IV sedation is to relax your body. Most people go to sleep for the whole thing. Trust me without the sedation you will be miserable. I've had 3 colonoscopies, and during one I wasn't given enough sedation. I was coming around too soon, and I felt the procedure.
They didn't properly account for the medications I was on. The other two I had went fine.
Prep:
It's been a while since I've had my last colonoscopy. But for the 3 I had I was given the white powder you mix with water. They say you could mix it with water or Gatorade.
But those are a recipe for disaster. You experienced that first hand.
So what I did was mix the the powder in a 64oz bottle of White Grape Juice. The only thing the powder does is make the juice feel thicker. The juice tastes the same. You drink it as directed.
For a visual reference think of the White Grape Juice as if it was Milk. After adding the powder it becomes Milkshake.
You should be able to keep it down better. Remember it must be 64oz bottle of White Grape Juice.
Regular grape juice will not work, and mess up your prep.
You want the sedation for the colonoscopy. The whole procedure lasts about 30-45 minutes.
From prep room to recovery room. The IV sedation is to relax your body. Most people go to sleep for the whole thing. Trust me without the sedation you will be miserable. I've had 3 colonoscopies, and during one I wasn't given enough sedation. I was coming around too soon, and I felt the procedure.
They didn't properly account for the medications I was on. The other two I had went fine.
I had two without sedation and was fine, even when they snipped a couple of things out. I prefer it but the 3rd time I had to go with a different doc (was paying out-of-pocket because it was considered diagnostic and the original one worked out of a hospital and I couldn't determine all-in cost beforehand). Doc on the third one said that he preferred sedation because he didn't have to worry about the patient moving or flinching. OK, I could understand that pitch but now that I'm on Medicare I may see if I can go back to the original doc.
YMMV if you have adhesions, twisty/turny intestines, etc. My mother had them without sedation when she was in her 70s.
I had two without sedation and was fine, even when they snipped a couple of things out. I prefer it but the 3rd time I had to go with a different doc (was paying out-of-pocket because it was considered diagnostic and the original one worked out of a hospital and I couldn't determine all-in cost beforehand). Doc on the third one said that he preferred sedation because he didn't have to worry about the patient moving or flinching. OK, I could understand that pitch but now that I'm on Medicare I may see if I can go back to the original doc.
YMMV if you have adhesions, twisty/turny intestines, etc. My mother had them without sedation when she was in her 70s.
I've had two without sedation and it was no big deal. My cousin is a Nurse Practitioner who used to work in a colonoscopy clinic and she said that doctors want you sedated because they can do the procedure more quickly if they don't have to be concerned with your comfort - the downside of that is that more quickly can result in a perforated colon.
Remember if you go the ColoGuard route, you still may need to get a Colonoscopy anyway.
You want the sedation for the colonoscopy. The whole procedure lasts about 30-45 minutes.
From prep room to recovery room. The IV sedation is to relax your body. Most people go to sleep for the whole thing. Trust me without the sedation you will be miserable. I've had 3 colonoscopies, and during one I wasn't given enough sedation. I was coming around too soon, and I felt the procedure.
They didn't properly account for the medications I was on. The other two I had went fine.
Prep:
It's been a while since I've had my last colonoscopy. But for the 3 I had I was given the white powder you mix with water. They say you could mix it with water or Gatorade.
But those are a recipe for disaster. You experienced that first hand.
So what I did was mix the the powder in a 64oz bottle of White Grape Juice. The only thing the powder does is make the juice feel thicker. The juice tastes the same. You drink it as directed.
For a visual reference think of the White Grape Juice as if it was Milk. After adding the powder it becomes Milkshake.
You should be able to keep it down better. Remember it must be 64oz bottle of White Grape Juice.
Regular grape juice will not work, and mess up your prep.
But my prep was not powder, it was liquid - extremely vile. So there are many kinds of prep and that seems to make giving and getting advice difficult since people generally don't get to choose their prep unless they make a major deal of it.
So it sounds like you got miralax...which is how I think I'd like to do it if I can't persuade them to give me clenpiq which requires a prescription.
Remember if you go the ColoGuard route, you still may need to get a Colonoscopy anyway.
You want the sedation for the colonoscopy. The whole procedure lasts about 30-45 minutes.
From prep room to recovery room. The IV sedation is to relax your body. Most people go to sleep for the whole thing. Trust me without the sedation you will be miserable. I've had 3 colonoscopies, and during one I wasn't given enough sedation. I was coming around too soon, and I felt the procedure.
They didn't properly account for the medications I was on. The other two I had went fine.
Prep:
It's been a while since I've had my last colonoscopy. But for the 3 I had I was given the white powder you mix with water. They say you could mix it with water or Gatorade.
But those are a recipe for disaster. You experienced that first hand.
So what I did was mix the the powder in a 64oz bottle of White Grape Juice. The only thing the powder does is make the juice feel thicker. The juice tastes the same. You drink it as directed.
For a visual reference think of the White Grape Juice as if it was Milk. After adding the powder it becomes Milkshake.
You should be able to keep it down better. Remember it must be 64oz bottle of White Grape Juice.
Regular grape juice will not work, and mess up your prep.
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Originally Posted by 2sleepy
I've had two without sedation and it was no big deal. My cousin is a Nurse Practitioner who used to work in a colonoscopy clinic and she said that doctors want you sedated because they can do the procedure more quickly if they don't have to be concerned with your comfort - the downside of that is that more quickly can result in a perforated colon.
Exactly....the doc I was going to have said he'd chosen to do his without sedation so he could better advise patients. Basically he asked if I'd ever been pregnant or had several specific abdominal surgeries (possible adhesions from those can cause pain?) and since I'd hadn't, he said "fine".
I still haven't gotten rescheduled and frankly it's dropped from the top of my list...anyway, I can't seem to get hold of the right person at the right time and whenever they call I'm at work in a meeting or something. I've gotten out of the right order of how things are done so they don't really have me in their process.
But in the meantime I've been wondering - do "emergency" colonoscopies ever have to be done on short notice? How are those handled?
And how do the super-rich have this done? I can't imagine someone like Trump or otherwise wimpy, spoiled, rich people putting up with prep like this! I have to think they have some kind of alternative....if I just had enough money, would this be easy?
I think my sister had a short notice colonoscopy one time, not sure of the circumstances other than she was already in the hospital. She told me she had some version of a colon wash/irrigation that cleaned her out, about an hour before the colonoscopy.
I can't think the super-rich could circumvent the cleaning out process needed before a colonoscopy. Seems to me the human anatomy and physiology is pretty much the same despite the individual human's net worth!
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