Colonoscopy medication causes severe sickness
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Hi, please help :-)
Every so many years my dad has to have a colonoscopy to check for cancer. this has been going on around 20 years now. five times i think. to cut a long storey short it never has worked properly. because a few minutes after he's taken medicine moviprep, picolax) he's violently sick, sicks up what he's drunk and his bowels pretty much dont move.
He tells local GP everytime that it wont work, but it falls on death ears... he's got to the stage where he's saying he'd rather not bother. obviously none of us want him to stop doing it.
anyway this happened again last week, so they didnt even try to do colonosopy.
This week they're saying try Senokot?
this issue is what ever the medication even if he took calpol, when he takes something on an empty stomach he's sick. there's no if buts or what evers about it, no maybe next time he'll be alright, medication on empty stomach = violent sickness
bare in mind, he's a Farmer, nothing will faze him, he's about as resilient as they come... but with taking a tablet of any form without food, he's sick as can be....
he's very good at stressing this to his GP, its really not in his nature to admit or winge about an issue..
does anyone have a solution please?
can you get an injection for the medication? drip?
what would happen if he did all the pre medication diet and prep, but still took the medication with some food?
Thanks very much for your time :-)
Shaun
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jan48389 ssphotog
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reassurance. I was able to eat, albeit a bland diet, virtually up to the time I took senakot and picolax.
Jan
ssphotog jan48389
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he's also been speaking to the hospital, them and his GP seem to have mixed views lol but have both told him not to eat at all.
he's been told, he cant have anything regardless,
i was thinking someone on here might pop up and say 'they did' and was assuming he should just have a little food when he takes it, he hasnt tried that before, but he tends to think if he did have a little food when taking the medication, he wouldnt be sick... he doesnt know for certain, but does know what ever other tablets he's ever tried on an empty stomach makes him sick...
even if he woke up in the night with a headache and wanted a painkiller, he'd have to eat with it...
Thanks very much for your reply :-) really appreciate it
babs49935 ssphotog
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jacqueline01135 ssphotog
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at the clinc before the camera job. There is also a laxative which is fairly efficient
and tastes quite nice ,
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jacqueline01135 ssphotog
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ocurred to you I can just see you all smiling now
ruth88255 ssphotog
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I do hope your father finds his voice to make them offer an alternative medication in order that exams can take place. They can be very unpleasant with NO sickness at all.
shout louder! PLEASE.
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