Colonoscopy preparation

I have had a colonscopy before.  I don't really like them.  But, after my experience with banding and that recovery, I was more looking forward to this easier process.

How you prepare for a colonoscopy is relatively straight forward.  You basically reduce and then stop eating and then take some chemicals that make you violently expel anything remaining in your innards.  It is a bit uncomfortable, but not too painful.

The problem for celiacs (which is a contributing reason I believe that I have these issues in the first place) is that food reduction means less complex starches (so, instead of eating whole wheat bread or brown rice you eat white bread for example).  Ya, the problem for celiacs is that we can't eat white bread!  It starts a cleansing process all on its own!  So, for celiacs, the fasting starts a bit sooner than others.  But, no big deal.

The actual chemical bath has changed though.  When I last had a colonscopy I drank this huge flask of stuff - it was nasty and the effect was within the hour.  Huge pressure in my bowels, but that shit cleaned me out. I am talking Jaws type, cut the shark open, see the dead fish splashing out, hear the ker-think of the license plate type of clean-out.  Hold onto your knees splashing, sound reverberating approach to wrecking your toilet.  And I wrecked it 10 years ago.

Now though, things are more gentle.  You take two doses of a chemical after two softeners are applied.  I mean, it is probably gentler.  But it prolongs things over days and has less of a direct effect.  Being a celiac I am used to problems in the bathroom department.  And I think my body has become used to dealing with bad days.  So, the gentler chemicals did make me feel a bit uncomfortable, but did not make it essential to go to the bathroom.  In fact, I think that I could have fought them off totally.  My body is just used to wrestling down an unhappy colon.

But, at some points I did acquiesce and allow my self to go to the bathroom. It felt better, but wasn't the clean-out that I would expect or experienced in the past.