People don’t talk about this stuff enough because we’re embarrassed about poo…but I have a 3 year old so poo has been casual dinner table conversion in this house for years! 💩
Here is my very honest colonoscopy experience featuring beige food, emotional support stock cubes and a detailed poo log nobody asked for 🥰
Everyone’s colonoscopy experience is different but honestly mine was so much more manageable than I’d imagined. Sharing for anyone nervously scrolling before theirs like I was 🩷
Send this to your mate who’s got one coming up or save it for later and good luck!
💬Ooo and if you’ve also had one and have some tips then please do leave them in the comments if you’re willing to share - we’re all friends here 🤗
(This is all my personal experience and not medical advice. Don’t get medical advice from non-qualified strangers on the internet please 😅)
2 hours agojhedelstein
I have one annually unfortunately! +1 for sedation — in the US it isn't an option. My other note is to continue drinking electrolytes afterwards — after my last one I didn't rehydrate sufficiently afterwards and had to go to the ER for a drip. Yuck.
3 hours agopipsqueaks72
Thank you so much for your post, it's really helped me as I'm trying to keep myself calm before first ever colonoscopy. x
4 hours agomissmicpowell
I found the bum wees so satisfying! Never felt so cleaned out in my life 🙈😅
4 hours agobetty_the_stafford
The shittest part is when you have celiac disease, lactose intolerance, histamine intolerance & haven’t been able to eat solids for a while & nothing on the low res diet sheets is possible for you to ingest… and you end up with a few days on just sugar water. Completely brutal 😭
5 hours agosomeone_in_sound
Have had a LOT of these done. Lots find using a straw for the prep helps too. Green jelly and lemonade during the prep and take a packed lunch for afterwards. 🙂
5 hours agojessicaehaffenden
As a colonoscopy pro (self claimed title) been having them very regularly for 15 years now... 1. Things have improved drastically over the years in all aspects, a lot of the horror stories are from times gone by. 2. Your experience will drastically vary depending on why you're having the procedure and what state your bowel is in. A routine scope when you're relatively healthy won't be that bad. A scope because you are in an active disease state or you have lots of scarring from disease will be significantly more painful. My bowels are now in a permenantlty bad way from inflammation and scarring and usually open sores - it's one of the most painful procedures I have, BUT that is NOT the norm! 3. The prep will vary, overall it's improved a lot over the years, it's much more gentle now. If you have one and don't get on with it, next time request something different. If you're chronically constipated ask for an enema on top that you can do the day before you start the prep, or the morning if depending on your prep schedule - that will help greatly. 4. Being nervous will make everything 10x worse, your pain receptors will be firing up, your body will be tense making it harder to get the scope round, and it will decrease the effectiveness of the sedation. So TRY to relax, I know it's not that simple, but do what you can to relax focus on other things, do some breathing, ask for music in the procedure room, chat away to the nurses, whatever helps you. 5. DON'T SKIP IT!!! Colonoscopiee can detect so many things before they get out of control, if you've been advised to have one then just be brave and get through it, you'll survive and you might not if you skip it. X
6 hours agochocolate_teapotq
I had to drink a pint … twice So salty .. even writing about it makes me gag. A smaller amount and then a liquid of choice sounds so much better . Will try and remember picolax if I ever have the misfortune of needing one again… wish they could make the prep easier for people
7 hours agoconibereliz
Mix the prep stuff with fruit Squash and drink it through a straw placed right at back of mouth. Can't taste it as much like that. It was the large volume that I struggled with.
8 hours agogorgoniant
Thank you for revealing to me the correct spelling of picolax! Years ago I had a colleague go through this prep and I misheard picolax as ‘pickle axe’ and I had no idea what she was talking about and I couldn’t Google it because I had mondegreened it into ‘pickle axe’. You have resolved my curiosity! ❤️
9 hours agosharronallen__
Additional top tip……. Don’t eat mushrooms 4 days out, inexplicably there was still some ‘in’ there, which caused great hilarity when an almost whole slice was spotted on the camera…….. also drink the prep through a straw then you don’t have to taste it.
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