I'm scheduled for a colonoscopy tomorrow. Hard to believe it's been 10 years since the last but truly believe I should go through this since developing a fissure late last year.
I'm doing the clean out today meaning nothing to eat since midnight. Also using the doctor recommended cleaner, Prepoooptik. Really vile, nasty stuff.
Strange to me that the prescribed method for Prepotik is one dose at 5:00 p.m. followed with 5 glasses of water over the next 5 hours. Then repeat starting 5 hours later at 10:00 p.m. Good gosh, if I did that I'd be pooping all night.
My brother, a surgeon who also does colonoscopies, told me I could just as well take the first dose at noon, the second at 5:00 p.m. and hopefully get some regular sleep. Hence, I'm doing that - well sort of.
I couldn't start until 2:00 p.m. today as they all wanted to eat out at the Olive Garden for Father's Day after church. I told them in no uncertain terms that I was not going to sit there and watch them eat while I nursed a glass of water. I did relent and take them all to Wendy's where I could sip a coffee as they gorged themselves - on my dollar!
The Prepoptik does work - sort of like gastric munitions. The detonations are hard to predict so I'm staying close by the restroom. Although my fissure has continued to heal, I suspect I'm going to be sore by the time this is over.