It was a nightmare.
I had a colonoscopy a couple of years ago because they thought they saw a dark spot and needed to know what if anything was wrong. They found nothing thankfully.
I was in ER when I was informed that I required this colonoscopy and was put in a bed and given this jug of goop. Peg-Life I believe its called. Disgusting goop is more like it. I had to drink this big gallon jug, a bit every ten minutes all night long.
I don't do liquid meds very well. I sure didn't this night either. At some time in the middle of the night up it came, all over me, and as my husband thrust a basin under my mouth it just kept coming and I filled two basins with liquid that kept coming up from my stomach. I panicked as there was blood in it. No way would I drink any more of that stuff, so in the end, I also had an enema to clear me out.
Now here I am again being told I need a colonoscopy just two years later.
Let me tell you a little secret a Doctor friend told me. He too hates the Peg-Lite goop so he takes a small bottle of Magnesium Caltrate I think it's called. It comes in flavours such as cherry and grape and I think pineapple or peach although the liquid is clear. He said to drink two bottles of that stuff and maybe take some Dulcolax too. I stuck with the two bottle of M. Caltrate and clear fluids and never told anyone that I didn't drink the goop.
The colonoscopy was done and they removed a polyp and took two biopsies and now I am waiting for the results.
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