Hello, when going for a colonoscopy, I must first be "flushed out" so to speak using laxative preparation such as Golitely.
If you have had the preparation before, you'll know that you must drink this awful stuff. I have had more colonoscopies than I care to count, and every time my stomach has rejected all varieties of the preparation, so they do the alternative, which is a nasal gastric tube whre they pump it directly into my digestive tract through a nasal tube.
Now, call me a coward if you want, but that procedure is the single most nightmarish thing I have ever had to experience in my life. I have had TERRIBLE things done to me in the course of my health, and this is the one thing I cannot stand. I can't bring myself to do it anymore. They have tried to make me just not eat for 3 days before the colonoscopy and that SORT of worked, but it wasn't very thorough and thus caused difficulties.
So my question is, does anyone know of a more palatable way to be flushed for a colonoscopy?
2006-07-21
21:47:34
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