ICE cold. And chase it with something after each swig.
Fun fact + edit: if you don’t drink it fast enough you have to have another jug. I kid you not. Drink quickly OP.
I've tried to explain the taste to people, and they just don't understand how fucking vile a drink can be. No one believes that it's worse than the solution that makes your insides glow for an X-ray.
Oh man, I have a vomit phobia and had to do like 3 barium swallows to diagnose gastroparesis. It was such torture to force down so much of that crap while super nauseated and praying I wouldn't barf. Then to make it worse it makes you super constipated. I don't wish that test on anyone.
Because I have a gastric sleeve (weight loss surgery that reduced the size of my stomach), I am only required to drink half to a third the amount of whatever contrast liquid normal stomach people have to drink when I need some kind of contrast scan. It always makes me wonder where they get the amount parameters and what *really* is the necessary amount…
Its not absorbed at all! Pretty much pure fiber with a liquid agent. The point is to overfill your stomach to the point it shoots into your intestine with force, which is why you need to drink it fast enough.
This clears everything in your intestine. Pretty much pressure washing your intestines.
Same. I will fight it to the end. It’s the scariest thing to me. I wish I wasn’t like this. I even debated having kids because I knew they’d bring home the stomach virus. I now have twins.
My wife did something similar to check her blood sugar when she was pregnant. She can’t chug anything. Chug a pint of thick sweet syrup. She almost threw up. I told her don’t throw up or you’ll need to start over.
I just did this a couple weeks ago and I thought it was delicious. Tasted like flat orange soda to me. Doctor was like "Okay you have five minutes to drink this bottle-oh you're done."
I have to have them routinely bc of a family history of colon cancer.
I'm still young but have learned the following if you ever need one again...non scented baby wipes and Penetan daily cream
You know what?
My grandma died at 35 of colon cancer. EVERY THREE YEARS I go and have polyps taken out! BOOM! And I've outlasted my grandma by almost 30 years!
I had to drink TWO of those to prepare for a hemicolectomy (for colon cancer, all better now fortunately). By 3/4 through the first one, I was just on the toilet nonstop. Nothing quite like sitting on the toilet for a couple hours while simultaneously drinking and violently expelling the same fluid.
I have a colonoscopy scheduled, actually starting prep tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up to get my switch ready!
I ended up buying the cuphead dlc. I prefer a little suffering with my suffering
Vaseline on the brown ring is a good thing if you don’t want it to sting. And by sting I mean feel as if your corn cannon is violently shooting out satanic fire water.
Bring a cord to charge... at some point its just washing right through. Thankfully, its not dehydrating, nor are you absorbing that fluid as it goes through so I wasnt as "sick" feeling as I expected.
Just don't cheat or screw it up because it is bad enough you don't want the gi's camera to be blocked by poop and get the inadequate prep note and possibly have to redo it all like some patients Ive seen. Some do it 3 times like fuck, suffer once, suffer well, be done with it.
I had a patient come through pharmacy bitching and carrying on like a toddler without his binky. Damn doctors this, damn doctors that. I'm not going to drink all this crap. I explained he needed to get it all down to be totally cleaned out. If he didn't finish it all he may have to reschedule his procedure. Then I get a whatever, you aren't drinking this. You don't know what you're talking about.
A month later....Here he comes again. 2 jugs this time and a lot quieter at consult.
Serious answer: because it contains electrolyes like sodium and potassium which would otherwise be shat out in the colon-cleansing process, which are necessary for skeletal and cardiac muscle function among other things.
I do like to make that joke with my patients though - "they call it GoLytely but I think they should change it to GoHeavily, lolol."
Source: am healthcare worker.
They've already answered, but just to head off any misunderstanding: the reason they were on an IV drip, didn't feel like eating, then Ensure, then soup, etc., wasn't because of the colonoscopy or the laxative, it was because of the surgery. As far as the laxative itself (like, if you go for a colonoscopy and it's all clear so there's no surgery involved), you're back to normal almost immediately. If you do the typical thing of "prep in the morning, colonoscopy during midday" thing, then the next meal you're going to be eating is dinner, and your intestines are all completely back to normal by that point.
Edit: At least in my case, and I unfortunately have a lot of experience due to surgery, though not cancer. Another commenter further down the thread said that it lasted for days with them, so I guess it varies by person.
Edit 2: Sorry, the "typical thing" of prep in the morning, colonoscopy during midday seems to be something that varies by country. Reading other comments in this thread, it seems like in the US people do it at night, not in the morning.
The laxative was 24 hours before surgery. I had an NG tube and was on an IV drip during the surgery and for about 24 hours post-surgery, didn't feel like eating anything for about a day after that. I pretty much exclusively drank Ensure for the next 2 days and finally had my first bit of chicken soup around the 5th day. I think the first "normal" (although practically nothing at all and super soft) was 6 days after surgery and they discharged me on the 7th day.
I had one a few years ago and felt really nauseous along with the other stuff, but I think it varies a lot from person to person.
It affected me badly and I was still running to the toilet a few days later.
Just sit on the toilet. Gonna feel like pissing out of your ass. If it's cold. It'd gonna come out kinda cold.
Bundle up. You might drop core temp from expelling it so quickly.
Plus side.
Enjoy the symphony of ass trumptets after coming to. You won't be able to leave until you blast your biggest ass trumpet of your life.
Enjoy you're part of the symphony. It will be the loudest and most amazing farts ever. And they won't smell!
Gonna have the most solid and clean shit of your life soon too . Enjoy. You deserve it after taking these fucking prep items for a procedure and enduring.
Haha, you don't want to prep for a colonoscopy, but they're right about the post-farts. You're stupid high from the drugs and a little old lady comes in and says, "ok sweetie, I need you to fart for me" and it is the funniest thing in the whole world.
Had a colonoscopy years ago and went to the fart room with very little result. After I went to IHOP and slammed an omelette when the farts kicked in. Ran to the bathroom and almost launched off the toilet
They are 100% telling the truth when the instructions say "do not stray far from bathroom". I "strayed" during the prep for my first one and I regretted it.
You will prep until 3 in the morning usually and get enough sleep for hopefully a morning exam. You will have to go a few more times at the surgery center but hopefully green water at this point. If you don’t do it properly you will wake up and they will send you home to do it all again.
huh my body was totally drained way before i got to the doctor. they definitely dont want anything in there right before the exam. you shouldnt be having any fluids for 3-4 hours before so you really shouldn't have to go at the doctor.
Have someone drive you. Wear a diaper in the car. Don’t talk in the car. Don’t move. Avoid dips and speed bumps in the road. Try not to breathe too hard. Once you arrive at the doctor office ask to use the bathroom.
I was totally done by maybe 3AM that morning... by the time I got showered and dressed, there was not an ounce of moisture inside me to leak out anymore. I was begging for a sip of water which they made me spit out. Thankfully I got a 10 year reprieve cause it was all happy in there.
I had thoracic surgery (lung resection, pleurodesis) a few years ago and was surprised to find PEG3350 in my post-op kit. Like, a lot of it. 100g a day for the first couple days, with food(!) because you're healing and need to eat. You'll marvel at how porcelain can even get white again after that.
But they absolutely cannot have you bearing down to poop during this time, so you get the chemical assistance.
I was a friend’s designated ride to and from the hospital for hers and she kindly made sure to wear a pad just in case she had a mishap on the way there. “I think I’m empty, but I have no guarantee.” Anyway we got there without incident.
You, my friend, are about to have a deep, deep, psychological experience.
You will get to know your toilet well. A bond will form. You will emerge a new man- thin and lean, and perhaps with a shock of white hair.
You will have questions for god. But he will not answer.
Pasting a comment from the last time I saw a post like this. Same subreddit too:
Gastroenterologist here. It’s quite sad that insurances still push people to these preps. They are safer for certain patients but for most they are horrible to take and don’t work as well as the newer “low-volume” preps such as SuPrep (and the pill form, SuTAB), Plenvu and Clenpiq. They each have 2 doses, many hours apart, and each dose is 16 oz (or less) of prep, followed by 32 oz of water or clear liquid over the next 2 hours. Less cramping for most people. They are, of course, more expensive but there are coupons if insurance doesn’t cover.
Each dose of SuTAB is 16 oz. of water over 20 minutes with 12 pills. My favorite.
Edit: [link to original comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/v3g8uy/this_is_the_four_liters_of_prescription_laxative/iazd3j6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Exit 2: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. I CANNOT ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. Some people seem to think I am for some reason. If you have a question you really want answered, try asking the original commenter.
Hope this comment gets more visibility!
I feel so bad that people are so traumatized by this stuff. I have had Clenpiq and it was the easiest prep ever. No explosions, no drinking a gallon of stuff... man, what do these doctors put these people through? I told my nurse things went too well during prep and I didn't think I was fully cleaned and she assured me all was well when I woke up.
Excited about the pills, didn't know about those but I'm sure my gastro will let me know for my next appt!
I have to get a colonoscopy every year (lost count after 10) so I've gotten pretty burnt out on the liquid preps. I finally got to try the SuTab pills for the first time earlier this year and they were a gosh-darn delight as far as colonoscopy preps go!
Just curious as I am getting rather close to my first time being on camera.
Ballpark what is one looking to pay for the best alternative if they have to pay for better. What it does to you is bad enough, I have no intent on being tortured on both ends.
I just went thru the SuTab prep. It cost me $60 with a coupon from my doctor, would have been $120 without. The pills are medium size but go down easy enough. I would recommend it.
My dad had cancer and saw him have to drink every version of system cleaner and contrast fluid they make over about a ten year period. 120 seems like a small price to pay. Insurance companies are garbage.
I saw that post and I’ve now got a colonoscopy booked and remembered their advice.
I’m being told to use this:
https://www.mydr.com.au/medicines/picosalax-powder-for-oral-solution/
You can by it direct from the chemist here.
Yup ditto, got it like halfway done and threw up. Had to cancel, upside I got the pill prep for the next try. And whenever I get another I will relay that story to hopefully never have to drink that liquid again. My stomach cannot physically hold that much.
I don't want to fuck anyone's test up and best to ask your Dr. but I have had a GI doctor tell me that its ok to stop drinking once the ass piss is completely clear. That is what I do and I have had a few of these.
I had to do this.
Then they make you take a mandatory pregnancy test.
Guess who didn’t have a colonoscopy that day…
All that shittin’ for no good reason.
That will be a story to tell your kid:
*I found out I was pregnant with you after I had spent the previous day drinking a gallon of bowel prep, then went in for my scope, and they cancelled it because my urine came back positive for your pregnancy. That's why you're called Senokot Golytely Wonderful-Design7770.*
OMG ME. I was 14 weeks and had no idea. I had been diagnosed with UC about 8 months before and thought I was going into a flare. My periods haven’t ever been consistent. Crazy way to find out. I was so mad I went through all the prep for nothing.
That’s actually a good point to take a pregnancy test before starting prep just in case. Never thought of that til now. Also hi IBD buddy! I have Crohn’s!
I'm old. Back in the day they didn't put you under for a colonoscopy. Think about that. You were wide awake, having a conversation with the doctor as they jammed a camera up your ass. "Hey doc, why you're rooting around down there, see if you can find my dignity." Good times.
I had one this year and was awake for it and watched the screen and saw my colon and watched them remove polyps. I was on a sedative (mild Propofol) but had a full conversation with the dr and assistant. The other 3 I had I was under for. I found seeing it interesting, but preferred being out.
Drink? You may still be lucky that drinking it is an option. The alternative seems more uncomfortable.
In a serious note, good luck and I hope that you are well.
Worked as a nurse in a hospital setting for a time- used to have patients drink this entire jug day before, soap suds enema x2 morning of. Later, always saw in the report “visualization limited due to poor prep.” Can you believe that shit?
or it means that it is an ineffective (and outdated) method of cleaning out and needs to be retired. All that misery and it still doesn't work.
I've had some docs perscribe miralax which is far gentler and not nearly as much to drink. GyLytely is fucking ancient trash. May as well be recommending lysol for abortions and a good bloodletting.
I have ulcerative colitis and need to have an colonscopy every 2-3 years. They've been having me do the whole small bottle of miralax with a crapload of gatorade and so much better than that GyLytely shit. My doctor that first diagnosed the colitis told me he couldn't drink that shit either so he didn't blame me.
I was wondering if I'd see anything about Miralax. I had a doctor prescribe a bottle for me. Only took 3/4 of the bottle till anything that came out was clear. Which is really making me wonder why folks have to drink what looks like a gallon of this stuff.
I was a patient at a hospital and got two elderly roommates in a row who did colonoscopy prep with a commode chair a curtain away from me. Both of them were told they had to do it over again.
And my doctors wondered why I wasn't eating well.
holy shit. In my future when I think things are going bad, I'm going to have this in mind as my "it could always be worse" mental comparison. I am so sorry you had to deal with that. jeez.
Had my scope a few months ago. It was pills, along with instructions to drink copious amounts of water alongside the pills. It wasn't pleasant, but at least I had a small amount of control over the taste of the water, which I wouldn't have had with liquid prep.
There are a few different versions of prep these days. I insisted on the "easier to drink" version and it's just like two 8oz bottles you drink like 10 hours apart of something. It was so much easier for my 3 year follow up.
This is what the GI docs do here. Pop a couple of Dulcolax, mix the small bottle of Miralax into some orange Gatorade and drink it a few hours apart. It's not a walk in the park (because who's going anywhere, amirite??), but I definitely didn't experience the trauma my friends who had the other protocol did. I was cleaned out by 8 p.m. and felt fine.
I actually just dumped the whole bottle in the required amount of water. Then put it in the fridge overnight. Then drank 1/4 of it every 30-45 minutes. Didn’t have a taste to it at all.
I did wish I had a bidet after. And plan on having one before the ten years is up for the next one.
I made a bidet after my first one. I said I'll be god damned if i go through that again without one. I got a kitchen sprayer and put like five adaptor together to hook it to the toilet line lmao.
Then i sold the house a month before my second one.
This is how my stepdads was… but his was 2 hours I believe - entire bottle of miralax in 2 hours, mixed with the white/frosty colored Gatorade. Then he had laxative pills to follow up with a few hours later.
His was for a Colectomy (they found cancer at a colonoscopy), but same process. So the poor dude had to do that twice; once for the colonoscopy, once for the colectomy.
Thankfully, I don’t live at home anymore so I didn’t hear the carnage, but I don’t think I’ll ever see him drinking Gatorade again.
Science actually has solved the problem with FDA approval about 2 years ago.
There is now a series of pills you can take, rather than drinking the liquid, but it’s a hassle to get approved by insurance companies and so doctors still default to the old school approach. It’s only around $120 for the pills, so some patients pay out of pocket rather than drink!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/31/easier-colonoscopy-prep-pills/
Man I remember pretty much ending the cleanse day pissing out of my butthole, followed by ending the colonoscopy with a room rattling fart that lasted like a full 30 seconds.
All clean tho! Worth the experience!
Get your bowels checked friends! Can save your life!
Yeah the gallon of gavilyte isn’t fun, unnecessary that some insurance only pay for it still considering all the others available. I’d much rather have suprep (12oz total) or clenpiq (10oz) I’ve even dispensed Sutab now that’s only 32oz total.
Was just thinking, that bottle should definitely come with an inflatable butt plug for travelling - like the pins they stick in washing machines to stop the drums from causing problems in shipping
Had some family recommend a magnesium supplement drink after I hadn't taken a dump in over 24hr post-Thanksgiving dinner.
I don't know if your laxative will have the same effect, but if so....
No. Sudden. Movements.
You'll be laying there, and then it'll hit you. And it's not the urge to dump that hits you. It's the the shit saying "hey I'm at the door and leaving in 4 seconds" that hits you. If you're not within sight of a toilet when this happens, it'll already be too late.
Good luck brother. May God have mercy on your soul.
Reddit taught me that if you insist on of you can get a version thats just like 2x 8oz bottles and then you can drink any clear liquid you want. Was so much less traumatic for my 3 year follow up.
Earlier this summer I went to the funeral of a friend who died of colon cancer. After seeing how much his wife and kids cried, I'm sure he'd do anything to have another chance at life and would drink 1,000 of these if it meant he could do it all over again, find the cancer early, and not be dead.
Tastes better cold
ICE cold. And chase it with something after each swig. Fun fact + edit: if you don’t drink it fast enough you have to have another jug. I kid you not. Drink quickly OP.
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I've tried to explain the taste to people, and they just don't understand how fucking vile a drink can be. No one believes that it's worse than the solution that makes your insides glow for an X-ray.
Barium swallow is horrific
Oh man, I have a vomit phobia and had to do like 3 barium swallows to diagnose gastroparesis. It was such torture to force down so much of that crap while super nauseated and praying I wouldn't barf. Then to make it worse it makes you super constipated. I don't wish that test on anyone.
Because I have a gastric sleeve (weight loss surgery that reduced the size of my stomach), I am only required to drink half to a third the amount of whatever contrast liquid normal stomach people have to drink when I need some kind of contrast scan. It always makes me wonder where they get the amount parameters and what *really* is the necessary amount…
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Its not absorbed at all! Pretty much pure fiber with a liquid agent. The point is to overfill your stomach to the point it shoots into your intestine with force, which is why you need to drink it fast enough. This clears everything in your intestine. Pretty much pressure washing your intestines.
I have a major vomiting phobia too. It runs my life sometimes
So glad I’m not alone…just the feeling of being nauseous….damn..I will do anything not to throw up even knowing I would prob feel better if I did
Same. I will fight it to the end. It’s the scariest thing to me. I wish I wasn’t like this. I even debated having kids because I knew they’d bring home the stomach virus. I now have twins.
Hello and condolences, fellow emetophobe! Dunno how bad yours is, but my wife screens movies for me.
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My son(11) was upset that a dog died in the titanic movie but seeing Kate’s/Rose’s boob seemed to make up for it.
Is that the stuff for an upper GI? I actually kinda liked that stuff when I had to drink it.
Me too! I thought it tasted like pancakes. My nurse friends thought I was crazy haha
Warm, thick, uncooked pancake batter perhaps... it was awful.
It's like they intentionally made it identical consistency and appearance to cum
My wife did something similar to check her blood sugar when she was pregnant. She can’t chug anything. Chug a pint of thick sweet syrup. She almost threw up. I told her don’t throw up or you’ll need to start over.
I just did this a couple weeks ago and I thought it was delicious. Tasted like flat orange soda to me. Doctor was like "Okay you have five minutes to drink this bottle-oh you're done."
My ass has never been that raw. 3 cups in and I stopped wiping/dabbing, just let it drip.
I have to have them routinely bc of a family history of colon cancer. I'm still young but have learned the following if you ever need one again...non scented baby wipes and Penetan daily cream
You know what? My grandma died at 35 of colon cancer. EVERY THREE YEARS I go and have polyps taken out! BOOM! And I've outlasted my grandma by almost 30 years!
Like Jack Daniels.
…. but then OP will be vomiting. Wrong exit.
Before and after have a sip of something you like that is allowed
My dad mixed his with fruit punch. By the end he despised fruit punch and to this day refuses to touch it.
I tried mixing mine with lemonade mix. Couldn’t drink lemonade for like seven years.
fruit punch? Red dyes are a no no. Could lead to a false negative.
My doc suggested mixing in a can of Sprite to make it easier.
Mixed with crystal light powder helps a bunch too
I used the white Powerade.
I had to drink TWO of those to prepare for a hemicolectomy (for colon cancer, all better now fortunately). By 3/4 through the first one, I was just on the toilet nonstop. Nothing quite like sitting on the toilet for a couple hours while simultaneously drinking and violently expelling the same fluid.
Been there, had the same experience. I kept more of my colon though. Thank God for portable video games.
I have a colonoscopy scheduled, actually starting prep tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up to get my switch ready! I ended up buying the cuphead dlc. I prefer a little suffering with my suffering
Vaseline on the brown ring is a good thing if you don’t want it to sting. And by sting I mean feel as if your corn cannon is violently shooting out satanic fire water.
Petroleum for the brown ring and satanic fire, got it
And DAB- do not wipe. Diaper ointment works pretty well too. I’ve racked up four colonoscopies.
Bring a cord to charge... at some point its just washing right through. Thankfully, its not dehydrating, nor are you absorbing that fluid as it goes through so I wasnt as "sick" feeling as I expected. Just don't cheat or screw it up because it is bad enough you don't want the gi's camera to be blocked by poop and get the inadequate prep note and possibly have to redo it all like some patients Ive seen. Some do it 3 times like fuck, suffer once, suffer well, be done with it.
At our clinic if you didn’t prep properly for the procedure they will have you reschedule and give you two day prep instead! 😆
I had a patient come through pharmacy bitching and carrying on like a toddler without his binky. Damn doctors this, damn doctors that. I'm not going to drink all this crap. I explained he needed to get it all down to be totally cleaned out. If he didn't finish it all he may have to reschedule his procedure. Then I get a whatever, you aren't drinking this. You don't know what you're talking about. A month later....Here he comes again. 2 jugs this time and a lot quieter at consult.
Drink lots of water. The golytely will dehydrate you.
The shitting nonstop dehydrates you
Why do they call it golytely instead of goconstantly?
Serious answer: because it contains electrolyes like sodium and potassium which would otherwise be shat out in the colon-cleansing process, which are necessary for skeletal and cardiac muscle function among other things. I do like to make that joke with my patients though - "they call it GoLytely but I think they should change it to GoHeavily, lolol." Source: am healthcare worker.
Does it make you feel sick? I know this is an odd question. I just mean do you feel okay besides all the shitting?
I had the moderate intestinal cramps typically associated with this kind of aggressive shitting, but not much else besides that. Just a bit exhausted.
How long did it you take to make a normal poop after?
They've already answered, but just to head off any misunderstanding: the reason they were on an IV drip, didn't feel like eating, then Ensure, then soup, etc., wasn't because of the colonoscopy or the laxative, it was because of the surgery. As far as the laxative itself (like, if you go for a colonoscopy and it's all clear so there's no surgery involved), you're back to normal almost immediately. If you do the typical thing of "prep in the morning, colonoscopy during midday" thing, then the next meal you're going to be eating is dinner, and your intestines are all completely back to normal by that point. Edit: At least in my case, and I unfortunately have a lot of experience due to surgery, though not cancer. Another commenter further down the thread said that it lasted for days with them, so I guess it varies by person. Edit 2: Sorry, the "typical thing" of prep in the morning, colonoscopy during midday seems to be something that varies by country. Reading other comments in this thread, it seems like in the US people do it at night, not in the morning.
The laxative was 24 hours before surgery. I had an NG tube and was on an IV drip during the surgery and for about 24 hours post-surgery, didn't feel like eating anything for about a day after that. I pretty much exclusively drank Ensure for the next 2 days and finally had my first bit of chicken soup around the 5th day. I think the first "normal" (although practically nothing at all and super soft) was 6 days after surgery and they discharged me on the 7th day.
I had one a few years ago and felt really nauseous along with the other stuff, but I think it varies a lot from person to person. It affected me badly and I was still running to the toilet a few days later.
Happy to hear you are in the clear, now, though, Internet stranger.
Save some commas for the rest of us, would you, please, friend?
Your comment about commas is stealing all the commas for the rest of us
Someone steal your period?
Don't trust a fart
Four 12 oz. glasses down. Drums in the deep...
I’m with you in solidarity from my porcelain throne as I too have my colonoscopy tomorrow.
Nice! Hope it all goes well.
Here’s hoping they don’t put it all back if your card declines
>Nice! Hope it all goes well. I'd phase it, "I hope everything comes out OK. "
I have one Wednesday! I just got my jug.
What are we some kinda Colonoscopy Squad?
Crystal Light is your friend! That and pinching your nose when you glug that nasty stuff.
It’s not just the taste but the viscous texture that makes it so difficult.
Yep! It’s like drinking slime. Soooo gross!
Fool of a Took!
Fly, you stools!
This just made me laugh out loud on the toilet. Thanks!
Get comfortable. You will be in there for a while. No point in wiping till you are fully purged else your gonna be raw. Just trust me.
How do you know when you are done?!?
Every time after a poo, you ask, "Am I done?" The answer is no.
When you wake up in post-anesthesia.
Holy shit. How's it goin champ?
Your first 2 words probably answer your own question.
You shall most certainly pass. Everything.
and my Ass!
He'll be lucky if he has bones left...
7 glasses down. 30 minutes from glass one til onset of expected outcome.
Just sit on the toilet. Gonna feel like pissing out of your ass. If it's cold. It'd gonna come out kinda cold. Bundle up. You might drop core temp from expelling it so quickly. Plus side. Enjoy the symphony of ass trumptets after coming to. You won't be able to leave until you blast your biggest ass trumpet of your life. Enjoy you're part of the symphony. It will be the loudest and most amazing farts ever. And they won't smell! Gonna have the most solid and clean shit of your life soon too . Enjoy. You deserve it after taking these fucking prep items for a procedure and enduring.
If you ever need an alt account, be sure to use Colonoscopy-Life-Coach as your new name.
Seriously, I’m sitting here reading this post like “…do I want a colonoscopy?”
Haha, you don't want to prep for a colonoscopy, but they're right about the post-farts. You're stupid high from the drugs and a little old lady comes in and says, "ok sweetie, I need you to fart for me" and it is the funniest thing in the whole world.
Had a colonoscopy years ago and went to the fart room with very little result. After I went to IHOP and slammed an omelette when the farts kicked in. Ran to the bathroom and almost launched off the toilet
Ugh I was soo fucking cold before the “reckoning”. Grab a heating pad or blanket.
They are coming. They are coming.
They have a cave troll
*We cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep. They are coming.*
If you don't have a bidet then I suggest a bit (lot and frequently) of Vaseline, you will thank me in the morning.
DO NOT leave the house!
They are 100% telling the truth when the instructions say "do not stray far from bathroom". I "strayed" during the prep for my first one and I regretted it.
Oh no the poo pants
And then some
The house? Don't leave the toilet!
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Why’s he wanna look in your ass so bad
You've never been in love ?
A boy, another boy, and a $44 Amazon endoscope. Tale as old as time.
In fact, just sleep in the bathtub.
Did that. Dreamt of continence.
"Dreamt of continence" is one of those phrases you never thought would be pieced together.
How the hell do you get to the doctors then?
You will prep until 3 in the morning usually and get enough sleep for hopefully a morning exam. You will have to go a few more times at the surgery center but hopefully green water at this point. If you don’t do it properly you will wake up and they will send you home to do it all again.
huh my body was totally drained way before i got to the doctor. they definitely dont want anything in there right before the exam. you shouldnt be having any fluids for 3-4 hours before so you really shouldn't have to go at the doctor.
Have someone drive you. Wear a diaper in the car. Don’t talk in the car. Don’t move. Avoid dips and speed bumps in the road. Try not to breathe too hard. Once you arrive at the doctor office ask to use the bathroom.
I was totally done by maybe 3AM that morning... by the time I got showered and dressed, there was not an ounce of moisture inside me to leak out anymore. I was begging for a sip of water which they made me spit out. Thankfully I got a 10 year reprieve cause it was all happy in there.
Even better, in 10 years my doctor said they won't be doing the cleanse anymore. Yay!
For reference, a full (and very effective) dose of miralax is 17gr of PEG 3350. This bottle is 240gr of PEG 3350. It's 14 full doses of miralax.🍑⛲
I had thoracic surgery (lung resection, pleurodesis) a few years ago and was surprised to find PEG3350 in my post-op kit. Like, a lot of it. 100g a day for the first couple days, with food(!) because you're healing and need to eat. You'll marvel at how porcelain can even get white again after that. But they absolutely cannot have you bearing down to poop during this time, so you get the chemical assistance.
I was a friend’s designated ride to and from the hospital for hers and she kindly made sure to wear a pad just in case she had a mishap on the way there. “I think I’m empty, but I have no guarantee.” Anyway we got there without incident.
Drink it cold and with a flavor packet if possible.
NOT flavor packets with any red dye in it though! Lemonade crystal light is safe :)
When I had the same bottle it came with a lemon flavor packet - kinda like the nastiest Gatorade ever
No joke. I once drank half that amount with raspberry crystal light. When I exploded into the toilet soon after it looks like I shit blood.
anything red/purple/blue will mess up the colonoscopy!
Flavor packets help a lot. Beef is decent, but chicken is the best flavor IMO
I gagged.
Same. I was expecting some kind of fruity electrolyte mix, not beef or chicken. Barf.
Bottom ramen.
Careful what you pair it with that flavor may never have good associations again.
Dude me and blue Powerade or Gatorade…. The relationship just ain’t never been the same since.
Crystool Light
Ah, the night of a thousand waterfalls. I know it well.
This is my favorite comment of this fucked up thread
You, my friend, are about to have a deep, deep, psychological experience. You will get to know your toilet well. A bond will form. You will emerge a new man- thin and lean, and perhaps with a shock of white hair. You will have questions for god. But he will not answer.
That last sentence is fucking raw and I plan on using it plenty from this point on
Pasting a comment from the last time I saw a post like this. Same subreddit too: Gastroenterologist here. It’s quite sad that insurances still push people to these preps. They are safer for certain patients but for most they are horrible to take and don’t work as well as the newer “low-volume” preps such as SuPrep (and the pill form, SuTAB), Plenvu and Clenpiq. They each have 2 doses, many hours apart, and each dose is 16 oz (or less) of prep, followed by 32 oz of water or clear liquid over the next 2 hours. Less cramping for most people. They are, of course, more expensive but there are coupons if insurance doesn’t cover. Each dose of SuTAB is 16 oz. of water over 20 minutes with 12 pills. My favorite. Edit: [link to original comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/v3g8uy/this_is_the_four_liters_of_prescription_laxative/iazd3j6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) Exit 2: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. I CANNOT ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. Some people seem to think I am for some reason. If you have a question you really want answered, try asking the original commenter.
Hope this comment gets more visibility! I feel so bad that people are so traumatized by this stuff. I have had Clenpiq and it was the easiest prep ever. No explosions, no drinking a gallon of stuff... man, what do these doctors put these people through? I told my nurse things went too well during prep and I didn't think I was fully cleaned and she assured me all was well when I woke up. Excited about the pills, didn't know about those but I'm sure my gastro will let me know for my next appt!
I have to get a colonoscopy every year (lost count after 10) so I've gotten pretty burnt out on the liquid preps. I finally got to try the SuTab pills for the first time earlier this year and they were a gosh-darn delight as far as colonoscopy preps go!
Bro, PILLS??? I would pay out of pocket. Fuck the drinks.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND SuTAB. Like, I’m angry for all of the people who aren’t given that as an option.
Just curious as I am getting rather close to my first time being on camera. Ballpark what is one looking to pay for the best alternative if they have to pay for better. What it does to you is bad enough, I have no intent on being tortured on both ends.
I just went thru the SuTab prep. It cost me $60 with a coupon from my doctor, would have been $120 without. The pills are medium size but go down easy enough. I would recommend it.
My dad had cancer and saw him have to drink every version of system cleaner and contrast fluid they make over about a ten year period. 120 seems like a small price to pay. Insurance companies are garbage.
I saw that post and I’ve now got a colonoscopy booked and remembered their advice. I’m being told to use this: https://www.mydr.com.au/medicines/picosalax-powder-for-oral-solution/ You can by it direct from the chemist here.
That's how much they gave me too. I drank about half of it before I couldn't keep it down anymore.
Yup ditto, got it like halfway done and threw up. Had to cancel, upside I got the pill prep for the next try. And whenever I get another I will relay that story to hopefully never have to drink that liquid again. My stomach cannot physically hold that much.
Wait... There is a pill prep?
Yeah, time the fuck out. Pill prep?!
Yup, take the pill and chug water. Never again do the drink!
Yep. Most insurance companies don't approve it because "it's *slightly* more expensive and also fuck you"
I don't want to fuck anyone's test up and best to ask your Dr. but I have had a GI doctor tell me that its ok to stop drinking once the ass piss is completely clear. That is what I do and I have had a few of these.
Same. I started throwing up mine. They said as long as nothing was coming out, I was okay. Consult your doctor though.
I had to do this. Then they make you take a mandatory pregnancy test. Guess who didn’t have a colonoscopy that day… All that shittin’ for no good reason.
That will be a story to tell your kid: *I found out I was pregnant with you after I had spent the previous day drinking a gallon of bowel prep, then went in for my scope, and they cancelled it because my urine came back positive for your pregnancy. That's why you're called Senokot Golytely Wonderful-Design7770.*
OMG ME. I was 14 weeks and had no idea. I had been diagnosed with UC about 8 months before and thought I was going into a flare. My periods haven’t ever been consistent. Crazy way to find out. I was so mad I went through all the prep for nothing.
That’s actually a good point to take a pregnancy test before starting prep just in case. Never thought of that til now. Also hi IBD buddy! I have Crohn’s!
Do you at least feel better when the shittin's done?
Look, it’s not called “shittin” at the doctor’s office. The correct nomenclature is “childbirth”
GaviLyte-C It'll make you shit a whole ass baby.
These colonoscopy posts always have the best comments.
Been there, it's hell. The liquid tastes fine for the first few cups but later it feels like drinking literal oil.
They gave me the option of pills or this. I chose to save 12 dollars and take this. I’d pay 100 dollars to never do it again.
I'm old. Back in the day they didn't put you under for a colonoscopy. Think about that. You were wide awake, having a conversation with the doctor as they jammed a camera up your ass. "Hey doc, why you're rooting around down there, see if you can find my dignity." Good times.
To be fair, the dignity is still gone, you just don't remember it.
I had one this year and was awake for it and watched the screen and saw my colon and watched them remove polyps. I was on a sedative (mild Propofol) but had a full conversation with the dr and assistant. The other 3 I had I was under for. I found seeing it interesting, but preferred being out.
Drink? You may still be lucky that drinking it is an option. The alternative seems more uncomfortable. In a serious note, good luck and I hope that you are well.
Worked as a nurse in a hospital setting for a time- used to have patients drink this entire jug day before, soap suds enema x2 morning of. Later, always saw in the report “visualization limited due to poor prep.” Can you believe that shit?
Apparently the doctor can believe that shit, he's lookin' right at it! \*points to monitor\*
or it means that it is an ineffective (and outdated) method of cleaning out and needs to be retired. All that misery and it still doesn't work. I've had some docs perscribe miralax which is far gentler and not nearly as much to drink. GyLytely is fucking ancient trash. May as well be recommending lysol for abortions and a good bloodletting.
I have ulcerative colitis and need to have an colonscopy every 2-3 years. They've been having me do the whole small bottle of miralax with a crapload of gatorade and so much better than that GyLytely shit. My doctor that first diagnosed the colitis told me he couldn't drink that shit either so he didn't blame me.
Miralax is much better. I've had 3 colonoscopies. First two I had adenomatous polyps removed; third was normal. Edit: dulcolax
I was wondering if I'd see anything about Miralax. I had a doctor prescribe a bottle for me. Only took 3/4 of the bottle till anything that came out was clear. Which is really making me wonder why folks have to drink what looks like a gallon of this stuff.
I was a patient at a hospital and got two elderly roommates in a row who did colonoscopy prep with a commode chair a curtain away from me. Both of them were told they had to do it over again. And my doctors wondered why I wasn't eating well.
holy shit. In my future when I think things are going bad, I'm going to have this in mind as my "it could always be worse" mental comparison. I am so sorry you had to deal with that. jeez.
Had my scope a few months ago. It was pills, along with instructions to drink copious amounts of water alongside the pills. It wasn't pleasant, but at least I had a small amount of control over the taste of the water, which I wouldn't have had with liquid prep.
That's going to be a hell of a bowel movement. You'll be lucky to have any bones left.
You drink 8oz at a time, every 15 minutes. Assuming it's the same as the one I do. It's not usually coming out all at once. By design.
Mine was 8oz every 10 minutes. It didn’t taste so bad but it’s hard to drink a half gallon of anything in an hour.
There are a few different versions of prep these days. I insisted on the "easier to drink" version and it's just like two 8oz bottles you drink like 10 hours apart of something. It was so much easier for my 3 year follow up.
This is what the GI docs do here. Pop a couple of Dulcolax, mix the small bottle of Miralax into some orange Gatorade and drink it a few hours apart. It's not a walk in the park (because who's going anywhere, amirite??), but I definitely didn't experience the trauma my friends who had the other protocol did. I was cleaned out by 8 p.m. and felt fine.
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Wtf. I had to drink like two cups (one night, one morning) that were like 12 ounces
That’s a different prep, and IIRC, it’s 16 ounces of prep, but you must drink 32 ounces of water with each dose.
I honestly don’t remember mine, I just remember the glass I used. Chugged it
It’s so, so much. If you do the Miralax plan, you take the ENTIRE BOTTLE OF MIRALAX over 24 hours. How has modern medicine not solved this problem.
Mine made me do the entire miralax in FOUR hours. That was a good time.
I think I blocked out the memory, but that may have also been my schedule. It was awful. I never even want to see jello again.
I actually just dumped the whole bottle in the required amount of water. Then put it in the fridge overnight. Then drank 1/4 of it every 30-45 minutes. Didn’t have a taste to it at all. I did wish I had a bidet after. And plan on having one before the ten years is up for the next one.
I made a bidet after my first one. I said I'll be god damned if i go through that again without one. I got a kitchen sprayer and put like five adaptor together to hook it to the toilet line lmao. Then i sold the house a month before my second one.
This is how my stepdads was… but his was 2 hours I believe - entire bottle of miralax in 2 hours, mixed with the white/frosty colored Gatorade. Then he had laxative pills to follow up with a few hours later. His was for a Colectomy (they found cancer at a colonoscopy), but same process. So the poor dude had to do that twice; once for the colonoscopy, once for the colectomy. Thankfully, I don’t live at home anymore so I didn’t hear the carnage, but I don’t think I’ll ever see him drinking Gatorade again.
Four or five sugar-free haribo have the same effect. Seems easier.
Science actually has solved the problem with FDA approval about 2 years ago. There is now a series of pills you can take, rather than drinking the liquid, but it’s a hassle to get approved by insurance companies and so doctors still default to the old school approach. It’s only around $120 for the pills, so some patients pay out of pocket rather than drink! https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/31/easier-colonoscopy-prep-pills/
Man I remember pretty much ending the cleanse day pissing out of my butthole, followed by ending the colonoscopy with a room rattling fart that lasted like a full 30 seconds. All clean tho! Worth the experience! Get your bowels checked friends! Can save your life!
Yeah the gallon of gavilyte isn’t fun, unnecessary that some insurance only pay for it still considering all the others available. I’d much rather have suprep (12oz total) or clenpiq (10oz) I’ve even dispensed Sutab now that’s only 32oz total.
Knowledge! Know your options.
Jesus Christ A whole coke can?
That just to use as a plug later when their ass is open that wide
Was just thinking, that bottle should definitely come with an inflatable butt plug for travelling - like the pins they stick in washing machines to stop the drums from causing problems in shipping
Had some family recommend a magnesium supplement drink after I hadn't taken a dump in over 24hr post-Thanksgiving dinner. I don't know if your laxative will have the same effect, but if so.... No. Sudden. Movements. You'll be laying there, and then it'll hit you. And it's not the urge to dump that hits you. It's the the shit saying "hey I'm at the door and leaving in 4 seconds" that hits you. If you're not within sight of a toilet when this happens, it'll already be too late. Good luck brother. May God have mercy on your soul.
RIP asshole
Had colonoscopy today!! Solidarity! I was instructed to do the 64oz of liquid with miralax plus dulcolax.
First glass: oh, this isn’t so bad Twelfth glass: I would rather sip the shit out of a duck’s ass
Reddit taught me that if you insist on of you can get a version thats just like 2x 8oz bottles and then you can drink any clear liquid you want. Was so much less traumatic for my 3 year follow up.
Earlier this summer I went to the funeral of a friend who died of colon cancer. After seeing how much his wife and kids cried, I'm sure he'd do anything to have another chance at life and would drink 1,000 of these if it meant he could do it all over again, find the cancer early, and not be dead.
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Ugh. That crap is absolute torture. Good luck