I'm new and concerned I may have Colon Cancer. Can you help?

[mstults]

You swallow the glass too!

Not until I've drank it all but the last glass full.

[Nik Colon]

You swallow the glass too!

Not until I've drank it all but the last glass full.

Lol

[Lydia666]

Bracing for the colonoscopy next week. If I don't eat for 2 days instead of one, would i need less liquid to clear out? Has someone tried?

I am freaking out about the possibility of cancer, i have 2 small children and I can't bear the thought of them growing up without their mom. I will post updates for sure.

[Lee]

Bracing for the colonoscopy next week. If I don't eat for 2 days instead of one, would i need less liquid to clear out? Has someone tried?

I found eating light, easy digestible food the day before prepping does help me (ie eggs, mash potato, etc). Will probably still have to take all the liquids. You really want to make sure you are cleaned out. When you are passing yellowish liquids, you can assume than that you have cleaned yourself out.

Good luck, try not to worry. But I understand, easier said than done.

Lee

[O Stoma Mia]

... You really want to make sure you are cleaned out. When you are passing yellowish liquids, you can assume than that you have cleaned yourself out...
Lee

What Lee said is very important. You want for the inside of your colon to be very, very clean, otherwise it will be murky and the doctor may not see some of the polyps, especially the small flat ones that do not have heads like mushrooms. If you are only partly cleaned out, the doctor will still do the colonoscopy anyway, but the findings may turn out to be rather ambiguous, and you may not have much confidence in the results.

Be sure to ask for a printed copy of your colonoscopy report, because that report should tell whether the doctor thought the clean-out prep was adequate or not.

Also, did you see this post earlier?
http://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=51653#p401721
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[Nik Colon]

Bracing for the colonoscopy next week. If I don't eat for 2 days instead of one, would i need less liquid to clear out? Has someone tried?

I am freaking out about the possibility of cancer, i have 2 small children and I can't bear the thought of them growing up without their mom. I will post updates for sure.

Don't worry about the prep, it may not be exactly fun to drink all of that but it really isn't to bad, it doesn't hurt or burn going to the bathroom but u do go alot, it's kinda nice being completely flushed all out And don't worry about the colonoscopy as far as how it feels, if you are nervous or the meds don't seem to be working well just ask for a little more and tell them you don't want to start until you feel comfortable.

[LeonW]

Hi Lydia,

No need to worry. I've had several scopes done and believe there is little to it. As Nick says, it isn't too bad. I'll do it anytime, if believed necessary. That people are worried about it, may be a left over of the old days when colonoscopies were performed without sedation! Professor Daniel Kahneman (Nobel prize for Economics) used the extreme pain these patients experienced during such examinations to analyze how the human brain deals with pain . . (it forgets all instances, except the last one - hence the need for doctors to take examinations easy towards the end . . .)

Because you'll be slightly sedated, you will most probably remember hardly anything. The worst is having to drink the foul tasting liquid. I prefer to prepare two glasses. One large one at room temp with the solution, plus an extra one to wash down the taste. Then I gulp (much quicker than sucking a straw) down the foul one as quickly as I can, and wash the taste away immediately thereafter. Indian tonic water (on the rocks / no gin ) works best for me.

Don't worry - you'll survive.
Hope you fare well.
And let us know how easy/bad it was

[Lydia666]

Well, the day has come. Have been on liquids since this morning- it's mow 3:30pm. Will start in about 2 hours to drink the magic potion. I prepared it and smells like bubble gum. Can't wait to get thos whole thing over with and find out what's wrong with me.

[MSJC]

Hope all goes well for you!

[Lydia666]

Had my first glass, this stuff is nasty. I don't how i can have 15 more glasses!

[Lydia666]

OMG- gross! I had 2 glasses in one hour and i am supposed to have double that. Does it work if i do it slowly like this? 14 glasses to go feels impossible.

[Nik Colon]

All I can say is to try to take your mind off it. Do it and don't think. Breath, calm down, drink, repeat

[LeonW]

Use large glasses and set the kitchen timer to ring when it's time for the next one need to go down.
When time is there, don't think and mechanically drink in one long gulp. You'll survive.

[Lydia666]

Well i had managed 2 liters which i drank during the entire night. It was awful but even worse was the diagnosis- rectal cancer. I am devastated. I have 2 children, 6 months and 3.5 yrs.

[LeonW]

Sorry to hear Lydia, I'd wished the drinks were the worst you needed to go thru.
I have no RC experience, so I'd better leave this to more experienced members of this exclusive club.

Please don't panic at this stage. First get all the facts. You need to know about alternatives before you decide on anything. Also on the decision to be devastated. It may help if you add some details of the diagnosis toyour signature, so others may chime in.

I wish you all the luck you need and hope to see you here a long time.
Leon