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The doctor's office does not want to have to cancel the procedure any more than you do once you've gone through several days of prep and made the necessary arrangements. I think I'd trust in their decision to handle this with medication for nausea and a different type of prep. I think I would go with a low residue diet and tons of water for a few days before the prep, but I'd skip adding in your own additional meds unless you've cleared it with the doctor and developed a plan to incorporate them.
If it's any comfort, OP, I had the same thing happen to me.
I can't recall the name of the prep but it wasn't the one I used for my first colonoscopy 12 years ago. And it was vile. Downed all of the first dose, then vomited it all up. Wish I'd been in the bathroom at the time...
Like you, no help available, called the next morning and they canceled me.
I would just follow instructions & not do the low residue diet beforehand. Best wishes for the enxt one.
totally agree. My feeling pretty much is to follow the doctor's advise when it comes to most things and then follow instructions.. The net can help us in a lot of ways but too many people spend too much time trying to follow what someone says or recommends on the net. Many of these so called advisers have an agenda to push.
The prep isn't fun, but it isn't the worst thing in the world. I thought it would be worse than it was.
The doctor's office does not want to have to cancel the procedure any more than you do once you've gone through several days of prep and made the necessary arrangements. I think I'd trust in their decision to handle this with medication for nausea and a different type of prep. I think I would go with a low residue diet and tons of water for a few days before the prep, but I'd skip adding in your own additional meds unless you've cleared it with the doctor and developed a plan to incorporate them.
Well, what I see from the doctor's side is very little desire to "personalize" based on specific needs - they certainly don't build in a consult to even ask/inquire! So, now I'd have to pay for ANOTHER "extra" consult about the prep itself. I can see why there are 15-25% poorly prepped patients since there is so little effort to improve the prep by individually consulting with them!
It's not uncommon to see an anti-nausea drug with a colon prep RX.
But there wasn't for mine!
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totally agree. My feeling pretty much is to follow the doctor's advise when it comes to most things and then follow instructions.. The net can help us in a lot of ways but too many people spend too much time trying to follow what someone says or recommends on the net. Many of these so called advisers have an agenda to push.
The prep isn't fun, but it isn't the worst thing in the world. I thought it would be worse than it was.
I certainly don't just follow advice blindly from any old source...if it is in a peer-reviewed journal, Mayo's, etc. I feel pretty good about it. And I don't know how following a low-residue diet could be anyone's agenda for any kind of profit.
The prep isn't fun, but it isn't the worst thing in the world
If the patient can't stomach it, that's a problem. What good is the prep if the person simply vomits it up?
The prep reneeh63 had ordered for her simply isn't gong to work for her. The solution is for her to switch to a different prep that is better tolerated, not simply to tell her to "suck it up" (only to puke it up and have to cancel the procedure again because because her colon hasn't been adequately cleaned out).
Well, what I see from the doctor's side is very little desire to "personalize" based on specific needs - they certainly don't build in a consult to even ask/inquire! So, now I'd have to pay for ANOTHER "extra" consult about the prep itself. I can see why there are 15-25% poorly prepped patients since there is so little effort to improve the prep by individually consulting with them!
Unfortunately this is a big issue with many GI practices. A colonoscopy "assembly line" approach fails a significant percentage of patients because they are being given instructions they simply can't follow.
I had one colonoscopy and I won't do another one anytime soon. The prep IS the worst part and my blood sugar was really low to the point where I felt faint the day before the procedure when you can't eat any solid food. I did have Gatorade but I should have gotten the apple juice they recommended which I didn't because I just don't care for apple juice. Then they used so much air to inflate my intestines that I had horrible gas pains after the procedure to the point where I barely even walk. I was starving and unable to eat because of the pain. When I told this to my GI doc, he said they would use less CO2 next time. I looked at him and said "do you really think there is going to be a next time"?
The sedation was the only part I liked. :-) I wish I could sleep that well when I went to bed at night.
I've personally never heard of anyone vomiting from the su-prep, or any of the other laxatives they use. Of course, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen! I've had the colonoscopy done 3 times and DH has probably done it at least 6 times due to family history and neither of us have ever had all this fuss. We've been given various laxatives by the various gastros who've done ours. It's no big deal to me. I just chug the glass of the stuff and then immediately drink another glass of water within about 10 minutes or so. I don't understand all this gagging and what not. I think it might be psychological. It tastes bad, so what? People get all freaked out about the process. It's not fun to have "the big D" for a day, but all this drama over it seems a bit excessive.
I had the sigmoidoscopy without any sort of sedation, and that wasn't fun, but not really "painful", just a bit uncomfortable. I don't think I'd ever go for the colonoscopy without the sedation. Seems like that would be about 3 times worse than the sigmoidoscopy, bigger and longer tube, more air in the colon. No thanks, knock me out.
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