Interesting tale of your experience. I didn't have sedation either due to the creep-out factor that I mentioned earlier. Just wanted to say that I too was worried about all the post-colonoscopy 'leakage' stories I read. Yet I didn't experience any problems or gas whatsoever. Not even a minor urge to...

Well, the big event is now over. I can now say with pride that I've endured my very first colonoscopy. Where's Dave Barry with my certificate? ;) It was a fairly unremarkable event. Other than for the 8mm polyp removed from my lower colon, that is. Won't know anything until the biopsy results come b...

Okay, I take back what I said last night about the MoviPrep not working. It took the entire evening and most of the night for the purge to begin, yet begin it did! Not a lot of opportunity for me to check email this morning, as I pretty much need to sit still in one place. Oh yeah, and my butt is so...

I'm to have my very first colonoscopy (routine screening) mid-day tomorrow. Just wanted to share my experience with the MoviPrep solution. My doctor instructed me to take the MoviPrep in a split dose. So I mixed up the first half earlier at 7PM in the container provided and drank 8 ounces, 15 minute...