Panic attack with prep for colonoscopy
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Hi everyone, I am having a colonoscopy on Wednesday and I am petrified about the prep. I have a fear of vomiting but the prep I was told to use is not that much to drink (Picoprep) mix with 120ml of water and sip over 30min do with 2 more sachets at 6pm and 8pm. I feel I would be cleaned out with 2 sachets as I don’t eat much hence my anxiety with loss of weight. Do you have any tips for me? I have diazapam on hand but definitely don’t want to vomit the prep up.
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Good luck.
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To be honest, the worst part for me was having to drink such large quantities of water, but in the grand scale of things drinking a lot of water is just tedious!!!
Jan
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Hi Ryan, everyone has these questions as the prep is not an easy thing. I heard encouraging news, as they have developed a good diet that is the prep, & has the prep ingredients in it. My doctor shared this with me, it looks promising. Let's hope for that. I have prepped many times & well at my age, with having polyps, I had to go every 3 years for a while, so my next colonoscopy will be about # 7. I have new stomach issues, nausea In general and I get full easy. I have to cancel this week's endoscopy, as a tooth broke. I was trying to prepare myself, now I MUST rearrange everything. Start this over again. Why the long share. Well I would like to say after all this time, and complications, I really think you will be ok. I may consider taking the diazepam, and deep breaths. Seriously, this will calm your tummy. I know what that anxiety is like. Addressing it helps. If someone says to me, don't worry, well we all know that does not work. I am not a doctor, but I had asked mine if I could drink my prep in more divided doses. He said yes. I have no choice, rest the stomach inbetween. I would leave plenty of time to be clean, because you don't want to be running to the bathroom on the way there. It brought me comfort to know I had room to adjust the prep a little bit. If you feel terribly sick, to the point of vomit? ME ?personally, would stop and ask maybe for the Osmoprep pills. Those are taken with water, and or your favorite clear liquids. Just some ideas. Over 60% of us are avoiding this test because of the prep. So it is legitimate, your concerns are real. Oh, even with having nausea, I never vomited. And I have a very troublesome stomach. My friend did vomit. We are all different ryan.....Give it a try. Address the anxiety and do your best. That is all any of us can do.