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Listen. Let me say this before I tell my whole story. Let me make sure everyone understands this.

YOU. CAN. DO. THIS. Yes. You CAN. Stop being scared! PLEASE.

I listened and read so many colonoscopy stories of how “terrible” prep can be, how exhausting the procedure is, how bad tasting it was, how you had to do all this preparing, all this fear mongering and anxiety filled posts… made me overly prepare for something I thought was going to be life changing for the worst, or something that was going to scar me for life… it was not that. At all. In fact, it went WAYYYY easier that I ever could have imagined. I was waiting for the bad parts to happen, and they NEVER did.

4 liters of gavilyte? Yes, a lot. Terrible? No. Not at all. It’s literally 90% water with electrolytes, and 10% laxatives. It was way easier to get down than EVERYONE said it would, I didn’t even use a flavor packet at all, I took the smallest sip of apple juice and it immediately got rid of the prep flavor.

As for when the time to go? Easyyyyy. Just felt like a typical laxative.. nothing extreme, I was able to go, yes a lot, and I was glued to the toilet for like 2-3 hours, but that was expected and that’s all it lasted. Once half the prep (round 1) was finished, it maybe lasted 4 hours max, until I could just stop being glued to the toilet, and I could do normal things. Hell, I even played video games that night with ease, and I was able to sleep EASILY.

I woke up at 5:00am the next morning to finish my 2nd round of prep, and 2nd round was even easier. I did some walking in my backyard for some exercise, waited for the laxative to kick in, I went to toilet and was glued to that for about 1 hour, then everything went normal again. I was able to hold it when I arrived at the hospital, I was able to go at the bathroom there, everything went smooth.

When it was time for the procedure, I went back into the recovery/pre op room, got in the gown and talked to the anesthesiologist and doctor. Went back, went night night, didn’t feel or remember a damn thing, woke back up in the recovery room with a folder of imaging and biopsy’s they took, and i waited for my ride. Anesthesia for me took about 2 days to wear off because im an extremely light weight to sedation and I hate it, but it’s finally all out of my system.

As for the overall results, they didn’t find any polyps, however.. I may have chrons. They took a biopsy to make sure it’s not cancerous, so I’m waiting on those results. It’s good to know exactly what I have and to make sure 100% what my health is. And now I now what I have to do to stay healthy and get better. So much weight is off my shoulders now.

Please. Go get that colonoscopy. Stop listening to the fear mongering. Stop listening to the anxiety filled story’s… just get it done. Take care of not only your mental health, but your body too. You can be the happiest person on the planet, won’t be shit if you got colon issues, or worse, cancer. Get checked. Be healthy. Know your body.

You got this. ☺️🌌

I woke up early to start my 2nd round of prep. Everything is going way better than I anticipated or made it out to be for this prep. I was expecting my intestines to absolutely hate this prep, but I’m handling it way better than I could have imagined.

Only thing I’m even slightly worried about now is the anesthesia cause I’m a pot head, but I haven’t smoked since yesterday at 4ish pm. I wanted to give myself at least 18ish hours sober. Cause last time I had anesthesia was when I got my wisdom teeth pulled, and I was stoned right before the procedure and had no idea about cannabis screwing with anesthesia, and man.. I found out the hard way, you don’t go fully out of consciousness, you just don’t feel anything. It was weird. I HIGHLY recommend to NOT SMOKE the day of any procedure, or even the day before. Try to not smoke at least 3 days (72hours) before. I understand if you can’t, but try, you’ll thank me later.

I’ll be keeping my updates here now until after the procedure is done, and I’ll post my after scope results then.

Anyone else also that’s on procedure day or starting prep today, YOU GOT THIS. ITS NOT AS BAD AS YOU THINK IT WILL BE. I’m a very anxious person and I got thru it just fine.

YOU. GOT. THIS. ☺️

I was nervous going into this so much, but I’m getting more comfortable as the day goes on and idk why. Probably cause I’ve already had 2 normal bowel movements today and I don’t think I’ll have much to go when I do the prep. (Famous last words? lol.)

I’m currently at the pharmacy getting the prep.

Anyone else going thru their prep today? I believe the one I’m getting is gogylte? (I’m probably spelling it wrong.) I hope it’s easy to get down and I hope I don’t get nauseous, I guess that’s my only concern now.

I have so much water prepared, and a quart of apple juice. I also have wet wipes and extra toilet paper for when the time comes.

Good luck to anyone else going thru prep today as well. We will get thru this! I’ll comment my updates in this post as the day goes on.

I’m having doubts. I finally got the courage a d mental strength to call my GI office and schedule a colonoscopy.. however, the only 2 open windows is September the 6th, or.. 2 days from now, on July 8th. Is this way too soon? Or is 2 days from now fine?

And if it is fine.. how should I prep for the prep? I’m very nervous and I wanna be prepared. This is my 3rd time posting about advice but I can’t help it. I have a very sensitive intestinal track right now and idk if 2 days is enough time to prepare, but is 2 months away too long???

I’m stuck mentally. Should I wait for the 2 month window, or quickly prepare for this 2 day window? Is 2 months too long?

Help me. ;-;

I’ve been so cautious and a little nervous of scheduling for it. I just saw my PCP again for a check up, cause he wanted to see how well it went, and I told him everything on how nervous I was and how I’ve been reading up on this Reddit forum about previous story’s. And he told me the same thing you all have, and that the prep is the worst part but “I need to do it, we need to make sure what’s wrong with your GI health.”

But I’ve finally come to a mental conclusion and sanity that I need to get it done. I can’t wait any longer.

So my reason for posting this is just one final reach out for advice, before i schedule on Monday when the office reopens.

How did you prepare for the prep? Any good drinks for chasers, books to read, wet wipes, any advice at all would be highly appreciated. I just wanna be ready fully for the prep and I don’t wanna feel like I’m stressing or struggling thru it. Any help again is loved and appreciated.

Thank you. 🙏