Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

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Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby teachpdx » Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:34 pm

So I got a clear scope and was vowing to never take another one due to gagging etc. trying to get all that shit :twisted: down my gullet.

After the scope my gastro doc said I could be on e/o year scopes vs every year scopes 'cause of Lynch. Very relieved because I was thinking very seriously of being NON-COMPLIANT.
......I'm not much of a sweet eater/drinker and tastebuds have become much more sensitive since chemo so preps tastes even WORSE than it did before. ........Threw out a bit of the prep - can't figure out why they don't titrate the prep.

So you mean to tell me that little 'ole me of 127lbs and rectum and sigmoid colon-less needs the same amount of prep that a 250lb man with all the essential parts needs? :shock:
4/24/12 RC T3N1M0 age 53
5/23-7/2 - 26 chemorad - Xeloda
7/16 Lynch- MSH2
8/28 LAR w/ temp ileo, CR, 0/11,M0, hysterectomy
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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby Voxx66 » Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:35 pm

I suspect that prep dosage is less than an exact science. I take less than what they tell me to as I seem to be very sensitive to it.
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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby DarknessEmbraced » Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:00 pm

Congratulations on the clear colonoscopy! :D
Diagnosed 10/28/14, age 36
Colon Resection 11/20/14, LAR (no illeo)
Stage 2a colon cancer, T3NOMO
Lymph-vascular invasion undetermined
0/22 lymph nodes
No chemo, no radiation
Clear Colonoscopy 04/29/15
NED 10/20/15
Ischemic Colitis 01/21/16
NED 11/10/16
CT Scan moved up due to high CEA 08/21/17
NED 09/25/17
NED 12/21/18
Clear colonoscopy 09/23/19
Clear 5 year scans 11/21/19- Considered cured! :)

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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby Sleen » Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:08 pm

I can usually choke down 80% of the gatorade/miralax.
I feel like such a rebel when I dump the remainder, LOL.

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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby KWT » Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:33 pm

Sleen wrote:I can usually choke down 80% of the gatorade/miralax.
I feel like such a rebel when I dump the remainder, LOL.Celine

Oh, so we have a rule breaker in our midst. Ha.

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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby CRguy » Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:43 pm

teachpdx wrote:So you mean to tell me that little 'ole me of 127lbs and rectum and sigmoid colon-less needs the same amount of prep that a 250lb man with all the essential parts needs? :shock:

Are you suggesting that we gentlemen are more full of shit than you delicate ladies :?:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: well you may have a point :oops:

glad you scoped clean and the E/O year will be appreciated I am sure
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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby Lee » Sat Jun 13, 2015 3:43 pm

Since my major surgery over 10 yrs ago, my stomach is a LOT more sensitive to the prep solution. Once I was trying to get the 2nd dose down when my stomach tossed it back up not once butt twice. At 10 pm I have a call into my surgeon, when she called me back, she asked what color is my output (colostomy). When I told her, she said I was clean and see ya in the morning.

Since then, when I see that same yellowish output, I stop taking the solution. So yes, with less colon, etc, sometimes mean less prep solution required.

I also eat a light easy digestible diet the day before I prep. Eggs, mash potatoes, etc.

The first time I took the prep solution to get my cancer diagnoses, they gave me a huge bottle of horse pill. Those were worst prep solution ever, at least for me. I'm not sure if they use them anymore.

I got scoped every yr for the first 5 yrs, yes yearly scopes are rough. Now I'm on a 3 yr schedule, and I like that much better.

Lee

PS Congrats on a clean scope.
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46 yrs old at diagnoses
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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby bitchslapped » Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:41 pm

GI told me women have longer intestines than men...more curves & switchbacks, if you will, as I felt some discomfort. Glad you have graduated to every other year if you are comfortable w/that. Would be hard not to jump @ it. Good news on clear scope!

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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby teachpdx » Sat Jun 13, 2015 6:39 pm

Thanks for the well wishes and 'yes' I'm comfortable with e/o year scopes. I'm squeaky clean and I don't think my cancer happened in one year. My last scope before my diagnosis at 53 was when I was 40 - and if I'm correct there was a polyp on my rectum at 40 and why they didn't do anything about it I have no idea and it doesn't matter anymore - my point being is that it had 13 years to grow.

Not giving ANYTHING that long to grow again :D
4/24/12 RC T3N1M0 age 53
5/23-7/2 - 26 chemorad - Xeloda
7/16 Lynch- MSH2
8/28 LAR w/ temp ileo, CR, 0/11,M0, hysterectomy
10/13 6 cycles Xeloda - completed only 1 1/2 due to HFS
3/12/13 - reversal
8/13 NED
6/15 - HFS gone!

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Re: Clear colonoscopy - hate prep!

Postby Sleen » Sat Jun 13, 2015 8:41 pm

kennytwisted wrote:
Oh, so we have a rule breaker in our midst. Ha.


:oops:

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April 2016: lower left lung lobectomy. NED
8 mo. f/u: 1 of 7 tumors progressed.
6 mo. f/u PR confirmed (Jan 2016)
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Dec 2014 confirmed stage IV w/bilateral lung mets
FOLFOX + Radiation (bladder)
KRAS G12D :: MSS
dx Sep 2013 @47yo: IIIc T4b N2b MX [bladder invasion, 17/21 lymph nodes]

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