Segsy is off to get Remicade today hoping Hannah waits until she gets back

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On preparation for my colonoscopy tomorrow  — 4 weeks ago

I have to drink 64 oz. of Gatorade mixed with a non tasting substance called Miralax. I drank 32 oz. and threw up most of it. That’s not very good.

I have taken 2 laxatives which were probably no good too and came up with the Gatorade. This is awful so far.

Now I have to try to down the other 32oz of Gatorade mixed with Miralax. It’s hard enough I do not even like Gatorade.

Then I have to take 4 more laxatives and something called phosphosoda mixed with 3 glasses of a clear liquid. All of tis before 10:00PM tonight.

Arrrgh! No wonde rI have been putting this off for so long.

Aug 03, 12:28PM PDT 2 cheers

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Bryn

oh Lord, that sounds awful

At least it will be over soon!

Aug 03, 03:12PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Segsy is off to get Remicade today hoping Hannah waits until she gets back

That's what I've been told

I am home now and I received a clean bill of health. That’s what counts.

Thanks for commenting.

Aug 04, 11:49AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 4 cheers

DoubleN loves 3 Doors Down

Yay, Segsy!

Definitely worth a cheer, but alas, I don’t have any.

Hope your summer is going great!

Aug 04, 12:10PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Tiger is a Rebellious Witch Whore and Still Proudly Displaying a Pearl Necklace

I’ll give her one for you!

Aug 04, 12:38PM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

Tink wonders WWARWWD?

As you know...

...I’ve been there too many times.

Wish I had some advice that could make it easier. Alas, pissing and moaning and weeping and wailing were my approaches to the 2 most recent “prep” sessions I had to do.

(By the way, for anyone who hasn’t had a colonoscopy, the evening-before prep isn’t typically that awful. For me these last two times, it was vastly worse because I was in the middle of a vicious Crohn’s flareup, and therefore had already been in terrible, steadily escalating pain throughout big chunks of my GI tract for months.)

Courage, dear heart.

{{{{{Segsy}}}}}

Aug 03, 04:03PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

Segsy is off to get Remicade today hoping Hannah waits until she gets back

Thank you for the support

I threw up the rest of the gatorade and gave up on it. So I took the 4 laxatives and then some of the phosphosoda which was making me nauseous. I gave up on that too. All in all the prep worked and I am ready for my 10:45 appointment.

Now I hope the test comes back all negative.

BTW, I called and cried to my mom. Then I cried to my friend who happens to have CD. I felt better afterwards.

Aug 04, 06:17AM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

Tiger is a Rebellious Witch Whore and Still Proudly Displaying a Pearl Necklace

Poor Segsy!

All that Miralax and phosphosoda didn’t do much to clean out your colon… but it apparently cleaned out your esophagus and throat!

Congratulations on your sudsy clean bill of health!

Aug 04, 12:36PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Segsy is off to get Remicade today hoping Hannah waits until she gets back

Both

Believe you me, I was cleaned out.

Aug 04, 12:57PM PDT | Respond to this


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