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calmygal

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I have been dreading this all week and now here it is...prep day. Its almost 10am and i have to take my 4 dulcolax tabs at 12pm and then start drinking at 2pm i am so anxious about it...i know its my 3rd prep but i get so sick every time so i am just uhhh about it...plus every prep i do with my daughter so its not as easy as just staying in the bathroom the whole time...I just don't look forward to it not that anyone does i am just having some anxiety about it...
 
My first prep day is Monday......never done it before, so I'm super apprehensive. I had to call in a babysitter for my son, since it sounds like I'll be in no shape to chase a 2 year old. Hope it passes quickly for you!!!
 
Thats good you will have help i will have help later tonight...7 hrs into the prep though lol so i will be well into it but better late than never...i have a little over a hour before i start oh man!!!
 
Calmygal, you have my empathy!!! There is nothing more desperate and worse than the sickness of the prep because you have to keep going forward into it. I always throw up at the end of mine, even the one I had on May 31st I threw up several times toward the end. I know whenever I have one my anxiety skyrockets in anticipation of what I know will happen (vomiting which I cannot stop), and I know the anxiety makes it worse. I'm sorry. I always feel so isolated too because my loved ones have no idea and I get so violently ill that I can only pace around and throw up and go to the bathroom and all the while I just want someone to help me feel better (much like a five year old child, I know). Lots of hugs!!! I know it sucks but it is short lived...before you know it, they will be hooking you up to your breakfast drip in the am. I hope everything goes okay for you! Relatively speaking of course. :ytongue:
 
That is exactly how i feel i am about to go drink and i am not feeling good about it and i have my daughter here and that makes it all the worse...i actually just want this part to be over and want it to be morning so i can just go and get the part where i can get all hooked up and do the easier part...
 
I know that is how I always feel too. And I always want to reach out to people and have them take care of me, but also not be around while I'm a wreck in the bathroom. It is so icky. You'll do great though. For me at least, even though the anxiety was as high as ever for my scoping on the 31st, the sickness was slightly less than all of the others (I think I've had about 4 or 5? I don't even know anymore...my mind blocks it out as kindness).

I think what helped me is that I slightly broke the rules, which made everything less intense and bombarding on my system. I tried to stay on the one glass every 15 min interval, but when I started feeling nauseous, I just gave myself a 15 min break. The important thing is you take it all, you know? Even that little break lets some of the intensity subside and the prep still has plenty of time to do its work.
 
Ummm, that's rockstar ****! See I can do this all day! I have three computer screens at work. I can just periodically check back and keep you company. At least until 5pm CST.
 
Maybe go slower on the 4th cup? Don't rush to meet the 15 minute deadline. That added mental stress can exacerbate the physcial aspects. Just take big gulps but do it slowly. And if you're a little off and go into the next time segment, just take a 15 min break. It doesn't do any good to throw it up. I was surprised how much that helped me last time.
 
Yay for having a cheering section!!!! Chug, chug, chug.....think of a thousand frat boys hanging around a beer keg, at least in my head that's how loud your cheering section is.
 
Yeah, but it is usually like a bell curve. It works up to the worst part and then once you stop drinking the prep, it is just like ultra-liquid crohns. I'm sure you're going up on that curve right now. How many glasses do you have to go?
 
I am not drinking any more even though i have gone 5 times and i am not going any more now....hmmm...my poop is yellow...
 
Ehhh, is that a good idea? If you don't clear out all of the way the scope could be ineffective and you may need to do it again or not get accurate feedback. Mine always goes yellow and it is more like peeing than anything else. How far through it are you?
 
estrella409 said:
Yay for having a cheering section!!!! Chug, chug, chug.....think of a thousand frat boys hanging around a beer keg, at least in my head that's how loud your cheering section is.
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Oh my this is awful but you do what you have to... My son had his first colonoscopy a few years ago when he was 10 and I had to call in reinforcements after we were both crying and yelling at each other and I just could not get him to drink anymore of that yucky stuff and he had already thrown up a couple of time.
My mother and mother-in-law came over and played card/drinking games with him until it was gone. God Bless them, I don't know how they did it but they even had him laughing by the end. I can still picture them.. "Whenever you get a 2 you have to drink"....
My husband on the other hand doesn't follow the directions at all and drinks it as fast as he possibly can. His reasoning the faster in the faster out and I can be done... :ysmile:
 
Needs to be liquid and clear...even if you have to take a break for an hour - you really should try to get as much down as possible.....nice and ICE cold seems to help me - and sometimes drinking through a straw helps too vs gulping down....

Good luck!
 
Calmygal- Don't underestimate yourself!!! You can do it.

JM- I do a similar thing. I just make my glasses bigger than they need to be and try to stick to the 15 min intervals, but when I start feeling like I am going to throw up I take it down a couple of notches. I usually slow the glass I'm on and do it in a 30 min window, and then if necessary take a 15 min break. But with big glasses and big gulps I feel like it goes a little faster...at least in terms of the number of times you need to fill the glass which makes me feel like I am doing really great. For some reason, straws make it worse for me. Ice cold is good. I actually had a cube in one glass when I did it a few weeks ago. I was like, ah, we'll just give this a whirl.
 
I have one more i will try to drink it now that i have had a long break but idk why i have stopped going...
 
Oh you're doing so good. One glass to go that's great!! I think that means the rough part is over. The rest will probably just be like peeing. So it will be annoying and rough on the bum but I think your stomach will start to settle.
 
you know i can see right through it and i has a twinge of yellow maybe cause i drank lemonade idk but i think its gonna be ok or i hope but i don't think i am done going yet my stomach still kills and its gurgling...
 
Yeah the yellow hue is okay because you mix it with liquids. You probably aren't done yet, but I think you're on the good side of that bell curve. Thank God for smartphones huh? Gives you something to do...
 
yuck yuck yuck i just burped and it tasted like that stuff and if that doesn't make you gag or want to puke idk what would lol!!
 
Ahhh what a relief for you to have the worst part over! I'm so glad. Now you just have to ride the wave of the rest of it until you get there and they can take care of you.
 
I have to be there at 845am and the procedure is at 930am its just about 5pm right now so i still have a while i wish it was about that time for them to knock me out lol!! Cause i am back in the bathroom constantly again...
 
do they normally stop i think i was still going the last time i did it...but i started it a lot earlier this time..
 
It did not go well at all i ended up puking at 7am for 4hrs and they almost didn't do the procedure and i ended up with a kidney stone and in the er for 6 more hours and i just got home now...i am in so much pain now but they sent me home with pain meds and i hoping it passes....they said its close so they hope in the next 24hrs....i still haven't been able to eat anything so i am just a mess right now :-(
 
Oh my GOODNESS!!! Wow! Bet you didn't see that coming, did ya?

But they did do the colonoscopy, right? I hope so, after all the prep you suffered through.

Fingers crossed that it will pass soon and not be the end of you yet. ;)
 
yeah they did it they asked me and said it was my risk cause i could asperate during...but i said i was doing it cause i wasn't suffering again lol!!
 
Oh wow what an ordeal. How did the kidney stone get discovered? Was it from the dehydration of the prep and throwing up? I'm sorry you threw up all morning. I know exactly how that feels and misery doesn't begin to describe it.

Did the doc say anything of note regarding the colonoscopy afterward?

Take your pains Meds!!! I'm always a self-restricter and hesitant but once the nurse/doc/my family tells me to just take them Im always glad to see even a sliver of relief. Update if you can!
 
i had so much pain i knew it was a kidney stone cause i had just had one the month before...and i have to go to my dr next week for the results...and yes the puking was no fun at all...and i am all over the pain meds lol!!
 

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