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HI I don’t how to thank you all sooooo much i have to have a colonoscopy done every 6 months because of a soften blockage. Now i know i can take these pill, i kept telling my husband that they sould make these pill, and now they thank. REALLY HOPING THEY ARE IN CANADA NOW  PLEASE SAY YES bye bye good luck all – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Oops, sorry, got carried away. Next morning, you take 20 more pills, same routine. Then go get your drugs and you are in happy land. p.s. Bring your doctor a printout from www.visicol.com Hey there, everybody, My heart just breaks reading these posts about your taking the miserable lyltely prep. PLEASE! ask (tell) you doctor next time you need a prep that you will use Visicol pills.  You can order them yourself from the drugstore ahead of time and just ask your doctor to write the prescription. I did this, I have them, I am just so glad I did it! Now, waiting for colonscopy early next month.  You don’t even have to starve for 2 days! Here’s what happens: You have a light breakfast the day before the procedure. No lunch. Then, around 3pm you take 3 pills with a glass of whatever, tea, water, juice. Do this every 15 min. for a total of 6 more times.  (20 pills) They are big pills, but you can cut them in half if that’s a problem. They are scored, you can use a pill cutter you can buy in the drugstore for under $5. I can’t imagine why you would drink that C…P!!!! Please don’t keep going through this  torture, the pills are here. They are very effective, too, from all reports. Be well, Charlie

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Hey Vanessa!!  You know, we all have our little pity parties, me included. The "woe is me" feeling sometimes jumps in and bites me in the butt, but I know things will get better.  They always do. I hope you had a good night’s sleep and say hi to your boyfriend for us. Take care and sweet dreams forever :o ) — Love & Peace, Linda

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Oh, Linda, thank you so much!  Your hugs and especially your sentiments made me get teary-eyed again, too!  Thank you for reminding me about kids, and nature. I often forget how much it helps being in nature, and remembering that you’re actually a part of it.  Tomorrow will just be filled with laundry and work for me, though.  I know I’m lucky that I’m able to work (and it’s not full time), and it’s also probably good for my depression to have another reason to leave the house, but sometimes when I feel like I’m kinda on a roll in realizing things that I need to realize, or when I’m just really tear-y, it feels like such a rude interruption to have to go.  But I guess that’s just a part of life.  And, hey, little kids and babies I see on the train make me smile even when I’m feeling awful, so I’ll think about that too before I go to sleep tonight.  And I’ll think about Jo, too.  I told my boyfriend about hers leaving her, and he was like, "a**hole!" Thanks again, Linda, and you can always email me, too, whenever you need to! Oh, also, how did you ever figure out that leaning to your left side helps relieve your gas?  Lots of experimenting over time?  I haven’t discovered anything like that yet. Love, Vanessa p.s. I’m sure your husband (and not only him!) thinks you’re beautiful even without your makeup!! Dear, dear Vanessa, more and more ;o) I can relate to your discomfort with the prep.  I shiver and shake whenever I have several BM’s and nothing I do will warm me.  I’ve even bruised the insider of my kneecaps from uncontrollable shivering!  And not have a fever! I’m glad that’s over for now.  The upper barium test will be a breeze for you.  Just be sure to hold your breath while you’re drinking the barium as that will make it go down easier.  <G Please don’t feel "different" with all the twists and turns in your intestines.  The drs just stuff it all back in however they can.  After my first surgery and ever since then, the only way I can get rid of gas is to sit leaning to my left side.  Now what the hell does that mean???? LOL! Honey, that should be the last thing on your mind.  Your heart is the most important part inside and you have alot of heart.  Now you’re making me get teary-eyed. <sniff  You have your whole life ahead of you.  I’ve plugged along for over 30 years with messed up intestines and I’m sure ugly too, hehe, but so what?  The only ones that’ll see you inside are the doctors and to them, we’re just another IBD patient.  Ya know what I have done?  No matter how crappy I feel, I get up in the mornings, shower, put on make-up and do my hair.  It makes me look and feel so much better (I can’t even stand to look at myself without make-up, never mind everyone else!). Please take care and if it’s warm enough, get out in the sunshine.  Go to the park and watch children at play, or feed some ducks at a pond. You’d be surprised what that can do for you.   You’re in my thoughts and prayers Vanessa.  Try to keep your chin up and anytime you want to rant and rave about how unfair life is, just send us a message or an e-mail to me. Believe me, we’ve all been there and will try to help you as best we can. Love Ya,  Linda THANK YOU everyone for understanding and for thinking of me!!!! Hugs and kisses!!! As usual the prep was worse than the actual colonoscopy.  This time, I had to drink the WHOLE BOTTLE and only had 3 small episodes of diarrhea! I don’t know what went wrong– I got the chills, the shakes worse than I ever could remember (Margie this happened to you too?), my lips and nails turned purple, and my temperature dropped to 94!  By 11:00, I was bloated something awful, wearing 3 sweaters and still shivering, and went to bed knowing that I’d have to give myself enemas in the morning since I still wasn’t clear.  It took 2 enemas. How could that whole gallon not have worked, and on someone who is missing  more than half of her small intestine!?  My GI said I just probably didn’t have much in me, being small, but I don’t know… Thank you so much for the Visicol information! I really wish I had known about that before.  I will go to the website and print out the info for my doc; thank you Jo.  Through all of that, I didn’t have to cry, but in the patient waiting room I did.  They yelled at my boyfriend for coming in to check on me, and they just were not very nice or even informative about where I should change, where I should wait, when it would be my turn, etc.   That’s when I thought of you guys and I didn’t feel so alone! The procedure was painless, except for once I remember moaning and they gave me more meds.  But I was still awake sometimes because I remember looking at the screen thinking, "EW, gross, that must be diseased!" and I could hear them talking.  I thought they were talking to me, but I guess it was to each other! When I was awake enough to understand, my GI said that my colon looks pretty good!  He used a children’s scope on me which was smart, becuase no one has been able to get into my anastamosis since my surgery in 1990. He said while it’s very narrow in there, he did not see an internal stricture or even much inflammation anywhere.  He did biopsies to be sure.  He said that it was very informative, that the colon looks good, but it does not explain the way I have been feeling lately, so he recommends that I see him in 2 weeks at which time he’ll go into more details and schedule a small bowel series.  I’m supposed to continue the Pentasa and stop the Cipro since it didn’t make a difference.  I know this is good news about my colon and I’m trying to be happy about it, but the fact is I feel kinda-to-very uncomfortable each day, and I hope that whatever is making me feel that way is treatable and not just the way my intestines have come to be and I’ll just have to get used to feeling like this.  And I wish I didn’t have to wait 2 weeks. I did learn something new about my anastomosis (that is what you call the site of reconnection?), though.  See, there was some mystery surrounding my surgery:  I went under believing that just 4 inches would be removed, and I wake up 4 days later on a respirator to learn that they actually removed around1/4 of my colon and 3/4 of my small during the first surgery and had recieved 14 blood tranfusions. Apparently, when I didn’t come to after the first surgery, it ws because of internal bleeding from something coming or being left untied, but the docs just thought I was having prednisone complications!   Had my mother not insisted upon a CT scan, I would have bled to death (God bless a mother’s intuition!).  Anyway, about the anastomosis, he said that instead of reconnecting one end to another, they gave me a "side-by-side", which is not usually done.  I’ve had many colonoscopies in the past 10 years and no one told me that cuz no one ever got into that area.  When new doctors look at my x-rays or are giving me bowel exams, they always gasp, and sometimes even tell me they’ve never seen anything like my intestines before, and it made me feel like, what did they do to me inside?  Am I a freak of nature?  Were the surgeons drunk? I’ve felt, somehow deformed and inhuman after someone looks at me inside. So my GI did make me feel a little better, that he could see exactly what they did to me.  But I realize I really have to work on not feeling "normal" or even human.  I think that’s why getting bloated for me is so hard, because it’s a reminder of what’s happened inside and makes me feel not only unattractive, but un-human.  And having been noticed for being "thin" and "pretty" since my teens, doing a little modeling, I feel like I don’t *really* live up to those things and I’d better hide it, or else! Or else what, I don’t know, but it’s something bad. Anyway, while I’m crying right now, I really do feel better for some reason knowing how they tied me up and some of what I’ve written here is even news to me and I’m glad it came out.  I’m sorry for it being so long.  I’m imagining feeling your hugs in advance! I love you all, Vanessa

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Julie I rather take 40 pills then drink the GOFASTLY stuff ….. and being that it will be the University of Florida/Shands that will be who I am going to be going to, and they are a research teaching hospital they should be informed on the new preps … now, its just sitting back and wait through the process of a referrel ….. I could have gotten a referrel faster if I went to the Private Sector GI Drs, but because CC is not widely known (some drs still feel its a old lady disease and IBS, which its not !) and that UF/Shands did the initial reading of my colonoscopy back in ‘98 .. and they were the ones to find the CC , I thought it best to go back to them as CC is harder to diagnose as the inflammation is not seen through a normal colonoscopy .. but through tissue samples as it is Microscopic Love & Peace Maryjo

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Oh, Linda, thank you so much!  Your hugs and especially your sentiments made me get teary-eyed again, too!  Thank you for reminding me about kids, and nature. I often forget how much it helps being in nature, and remembering that you’re actually a part of it.  Tomorrow will just be filled with laundry and work for me, though.  I know I’m lucky that I’m able to work (and it’s not full time), and it’s also probably good for my depression to have another reason to leave the house, but sometimes when I feel like I’m kinda on a roll in realizing things that I need to realize, or when I’m just really tear-y, it feels like such a rude interruption to have to go.  But I guess that’s just a part of life.  And, hey, little kids and babies I see on the train make me smile even when I’m feeling awful, so I’ll think about that too before I go to sleep tonight.  And I’ll think about Jo, too.  I told my boyfriend about hers leaving her, and he was like, "a**hole!" Thanks again, Linda, and you can always email me, too, whenever you need to! Oh, also, how did you ever figure out that leaning to your left side helps relieve your gas?  Lots of experimenting over time?  I haven’t discovered anything like that yet. Love, Vanessa p.s. I’m sure your husband (and not only him!) thinks you’re beautiful even without your makeup!! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dear, dear Vanessa, and more ;o) I can relate to your discomfort with the prep.  I shiver and shake whenever I have several BM’s and nothing I do will warm me.  I’ve even bruised the insider of my kneecaps from uncontrollable shivering!  And not have a fever! I’m glad that’s over for now.  The upper barium test will be a breeze for you.  Just be sure to hold your breath while you’re drinking the barium as that will make it go down easier.  <G Please don’t feel "different" with all the twists and turns in your intestines.  The drs just stuff it all back in however they can.  After my first surgery and ever since then, the only way I can get rid of gas is to sit leaning to my left side.  Now what the hell does that mean???? LOL! Honey, that should be the last thing on your mind.  Your heart is the most important part inside and you have alot of heart.  Now you’re making me get teary-eyed. <sniff  You have your whole life ahead of you.  I’ve plugged along for over 30 years with messed up intestines and I’m sure ugly too, hehe, but so what?  The only ones that’ll see you inside are the doctors and to them, we’re just another IBD patient.  Ya know what I have done?  No matter how crappy I feel, I get up in the mornings, shower, put on make-up and do my hair.  It makes me look and feel so much better (I can’t even stand to look at myself without make-up, never mind everyone else!). Please take care and if it’s warm enough, get out in the sunshine.  Go to the park and watch children at play, or feed some ducks at a pond.  You’d be surprised what that can do for you.   You’re in my thoughts and prayers Vanessa.  Try to keep your chin up and anytime you want to rant and rave about how unfair life is, just send us a message or an e-mail to me. Believe me, we’ve all been there and will try to help you as best we can. Love Ya,  Linda THANK YOU everyone for understanding and for thinking of me!!!! Hugs and kisses!!! As usual the prep was worse than the actual colonoscopy.  This time, I had to drink the WHOLE BOTTLE and only had 3 small episodes of diarrhea!  I don’t know what went wrong– I got the chills, the shakes worse than I ever could remember (Margie this happened to you too?), my lips and nails turned purple, and my temperature dropped to 94!  By 11:00, I was bloated something awful, wearing 3 sweaters and still shivering, and went to bed knowing that I’d have to give myself enemas in the morning since I still wasn’t clear.  It took 2 enemas. How could that whole gallon not have worked, and on someone who is missing  more than half of her small intestine!?  My GI said I just probably didn’t have much in me, being small, but I don’t know… Thank you so much for the Visicol information! I really wish I had known about that before.  I will go to the website and print out the info for my doc; thank you Jo.  Through all of that, I didn’t have to cry, but in the patient waiting room I did.  They yelled at my boyfriend for coming in to check on me, and they just were not very nice or even informative about where I should change, where I should wait, when it would be my turn, etc.   That’s when I thought of you guys and I didn’t feel so alone! The procedure was painless, except for once I remember moaning and they gave me more meds.  But I was still awake sometimes because I remember looking at the screen thinking, "EW, gross, that must be diseased!" and I could hear them talking.  I thought they were talking to me, but I guess it was to each other! When I was awake enough to understand, my GI said that my colon looks pretty good!  He used a children’s scope on me which was smart, becuase no one has been able to get into my anastamosis since my surgery in 1990.  He said while it’s very narrow in there, he did not see an internal stricture or even much inflammation anywhere.  He did biopsies to be sure.  He said that it was very informative, that the colon looks good, but it does not explain the way I have been feeling lately, so he recommends that I see him in 2 weeks at which time he’ll go into more details and schedule a small bowel series.  I’m supposed to continue the Pentasa and stop the Cipro since it didn’t make a difference.  I know this is good news about my colon and I’m trying to be happy about it, but the fact is I feel kinda-to-very uncomfortable each day, and I hope that whatever is making me feel that way is treatable and not just the way my intestines have come to be and I’ll just have to get used to feeling like this.  And I wish I didn’t have to wait 2 weeks. I did learn something new about my anastomosis (that is what you call the site of reconnection?), though.  See, there was some mystery surrounding my surgery:  I went under believing that just 4 inches would be removed, and I wake up 4 days later on a respirator to learn that they actually removed around1/4 of my colon and 3/4 of my small during the first surgery and had recieved 14 blood tranfusions. Apparently, when I didn’t come to after the first surgery, it ws because of internal bleeding from something coming or being left untied, but the docs just thought I was having prednisone complications!   Had my mother not insisted upon a CT scan, I would have bled to death (God bless a mother’s intuition!).  Anyway, about the anastomosis, he said that instead of reconnecting one end to another, they gave me a "side-by-side", which is not usually done.  I’ve had many colonoscopies in the past 10 years and no one told me that cuz no one ever got into that area.  When new doctors look at my x-rays or are giving me bowel exams, they always gasp, and sometimes even tell me they’ve never seen anything like my intestines before, and it made me feel like, what did they do to me inside?  Am I a freak of nature?  Were the surgeons drunk? I’ve felt, somehow deformed and inhuman after someone looks at me inside. So my GI did make me feel a little better, that he could see exactly what they did to me.  But I realize I really have to work on not feeling "normal" or even human.  I think that’s why getting bloated for me is so hard, because it’s a reminder of what’s happened inside and makes me feel not only unattractive, but un-human.  And having been noticed for being "thin" and "pretty" since my teens, doing a little modeling, I feel like I don’t *really* live up to those things and I’d better hide it, or else! Or else what, I don’t know, but it’s something bad. Anyway, while I’m crying right now, I really do feel better for some reason knowing how they tied me up and some of what I’ve written here is even news to me and I’m glad it came out.  I’m sorry for it being so long.  I’m imagining feeling your hugs in advance! I love you all, Vanessa

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Dear, dear Vanessa, and more ;o) I can relate to your discomfort with the prep.  I shiver and shake whenever I have several BM’s and nothing I do will warm me.  I’ve even bruised the insider of my kneecaps from uncontrollable shivering!  And not have a fever! I’m glad that’s over for now.  The upper barium test will be a breeze for you.  Just be sure to hold your breath while you’re drinking the barium as that will make it go down easier.  <G Please don’t feel "different" with all the twists and turns in your intestines.  The drs just stuff it all back in however they can.  After my first surgery and ever since then, the only way I can get rid of gas is to sit leaning to my left side.  Now what the hell does that mean???? LOL! Honey, that should be the last thing on your mind.  Your heart is the most important part inside and you have alot of heart.  Now you’re making me get teary-eyed. <sniff  You have your whole life ahead of you.  I’ve plugged along for over 30 years with messed up intestines and I’m sure ugly too, hehe, but so what?  The only ones that’ll see you inside are the doctors and to them, we’re just another IBD patient.  Ya know what I have done?  No matter how crappy I feel, I get up in the mornings, shower, put on make-up and do my hair.  It makes me look and feel so much better (I can’t even stand to look at myself without make-up, never mind everyone else!). Please take care and if it’s warm enough, get out in the sunshine.  Go to the park and watch children at play, or feed some ducks at a pond.  You’d be surprised what that can do for you.   You’re in my thoughts and prayers Vanessa.  Try to keep your chin up and anytime you want to rant and rave about how unfair life is, just send us a message or an e-mail to me. Believe me, we’ve all been there and will try to help you as best we can. Love Ya,  Linda

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – THANK YOU everyone for understanding and for thinking of me!!!! Hugs and kisses!!! As usual the prep was worse than the actual colonoscopy.  This time, I had to drink the WHOLE BOTTLE and only had 3 small episodes of diarrhea!  I don’t know what went wrong– I got the chills, the shakes worse than I ever could remember (Margie this happened to you too?), my lips and nails turned purple, and my temperature dropped to 94!  By 11:00, I was bloated something awful, wearing 3 sweaters and still shivering, and went to bed knowing that I’d have to give myself enemas in the morning since I still wasn’t clear.  It took 2 enemas. How could that whole gallon not have worked, and on someone who is missing  more than half of her small intestine!?  My GI said I just probably didn’t have much in me, being small, but I don’t know… Thank you so much for the Visicol information! I really wish I had known about that before.  I will go to the website and print out the info for my doc; thank you Jo.  Through all of that, I didn’t have to cry, but in the patient waiting room I did.  They yelled at my boyfriend for coming in to check on me, and they just were not very nice or even informative about where I should change, where I should wait, when it would be my turn, etc.   That’s when I thought of you guys and I didn’t feel so alone! The procedure was painless, except for once I remember moaning and they gave me more meds.  But I was still awake sometimes because I remember looking at the screen thinking, "EW, gross, that must be diseased!" and I could hear them talking.  I thought they were talking to me, but I guess it was to each other! When I was awake enough to understand, my GI said that my colon looks pretty good!  He used a children’s scope on me which was smart, becuase no one has been able to get into my anastamosis since my surgery in 1990.  He said while it’s very narrow in there, he did not see an internal stricture or even much inflammation anywhere.  He did biopsies to be sure.  He said that it was very informative, that the colon looks good, but it does not explain the way I have been feeling lately, so he recommends that I see him in 2 weeks at which time he’ll go into more details and schedule a small bowel series.  I’m supposed to continue the Pentasa and stop the Cipro since it didn’t make a difference.  I know this is good news about my colon and I’m trying to be happy about it, but the fact is I feel kinda-to-very uncomfortable each day, and I hope that whatever is making me feel that way is treatable and not just the way my intestines have come to be and I’ll just have to get used to feeling like this.  And I wish I didn’t have to wait 2 weeks. I did learn something new about my anastomosis (that is what you call the site of reconnection?), though.  See, there was some mystery surrounding my surgery:  I went under believing that just 4 inches would be removed, and I wake up 4 days later on a respirator to learn that they actually removed around1/4 of my colon and 3/4 of my small during the first surgery and had recieved 14 blood tranfusions. Apparently, when I didn’t come to after the first surgery, it ws because of internal bleeding from something coming or being left untied, but the docs just thought I was having prednisone complications!   Had my mother not insisted upon a CT scan, I would have bled to death (God bless a mother’s intuition!).  Anyway, about the anastomosis, he said that instead of reconnecting one end to another, they gave me a "side-by-side", which is not usually done.  I’ve had many colonoscopies in the past 10 years and no one told me that cuz no one ever got into that area.  When new doctors look at my x-rays or are giving me bowel exams, they always gasp, and sometimes even tell me they’ve never seen anything like my intestines before, and it made me feel like, what did they do to me inside?  Am I a freak of nature?  Were the surgeons drunk? I’ve felt, somehow deformed and inhuman after someone looks at me inside. So my GI did make me feel a little better, that he could see exactly what they did to me.  But I realize I really have to work on not feeling "normal" or even human.  I think that’s why getting bloated for me is so hard, because it’s a reminder of what’s happened inside and makes me feel not only unattractive, but un-human.  And having been noticed for being "thin" and "pretty" since my teens, doing a little modeling, I feel like I don’t *really* live up to those things and I’d better hide it, or else! Or else what, I don’t know, but it’s something bad. Anyway, while I’m crying right now, I really do feel better for some reason knowing how they tied me up and some of what I’ve written here is even news to me and I’m glad it came out.  I’m sorry for it being so long.  I’m imagining feeling your hugs in advance! I love you all, Vanessa

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THANK YOU everyone for understanding and for thinking of me!!!! Hugs and kisses!!! As usual the prep was worse than the actual colonoscopy.  This time, I had to drink the WHOLE BOTTLE and only had 3 small episodes of diarrhea!  I don’t know what went wrong– I got the chills, the shakes worse than I ever could remember (Margie this happened to you too?), my lips and nails turned purple, and my temperature dropped to 94!  By 11:00, I was bloated something awful, wearing 3 sweaters and still shivering, and went to bed knowing that I’d have to give myself enemas in the morning since I still wasn’t clear.  It took 2 enemas. How could that whole gallon not have worked, and on someone who is missing  more than half of her small intestine!?  My GI said I just probably didn’t have much in me, being small, but I don’t know… Thank you so much for the Visicol information! I really wish I had known about that before.  I will go to the website and print out the info for my doc; thank you Jo.  Through all of that, I didn’t have to cry, but in the patient waiting room I did.  They yelled at my boyfriend for coming in to check on me, and they just were not very nice or even informative about where I should change, where I should wait, when it would be my turn, etc.   That’s when I thought of you guys and I didn’t feel so alone! The procedure was painless, except for once I remember moaning and they gave me more meds.  But I was still awake sometimes because I remember looking at the screen thinking, "EW, gross, that must be diseased!" and I could hear them talking.  I thought they were talking to me, but I guess it was to each other! When I was awake enough to understand, my GI said that my colon looks pretty good!  He used a children’s scope on me which was smart, becuase no one has been able to get into my anastamosis since my surgery in 1990.  He said while it’s very narrow in there, he did not see an internal stricture or even much inflammation anywhere.  He did biopsies to be sure.  He said that it was very informative, that the colon looks good, but it does not explain the way I have been feeling lately, so he recommends that I see him in 2 weeks at which time he’ll go into more details and schedule a small bowel series.  I’m supposed to continue the Pentasa and stop the Cipro since it didn’t make a difference.  I know this is good news about my colon and I’m trying to be happy about it, but the fact is I feel kinda-to-very uncomfortable each day, and I hope that whatever is making me feel that way is treatable and not just the way my intestines have come to be and I’ll just have to get used to feeling like this.  And I wish I didn’t have to wait 2 weeks. I did learn something new about my anastomosis (that is what you call the site of reconnection?), though.  See, there was some mystery surrounding my surgery:  I went under believing that just 4 inches would be removed, and I wake up 4 days later on a respirator to learn that they actually removed around1/4 of my colon and 3/4 of my small during the first surgery and had recieved 14 blood tranfusions. Apparently, when I didn’t come to after the first surgery, it ws because of internal bleeding from something coming or being left untied, but the docs just thought I was having prednisone complications!   Had my mother not insisted upon a CT scan, I would have bled to death (God bless a mother’s intuition!).  Anyway, about the anastomosis, he said that instead of reconnecting one end to another, they gave me a "side-by-side", which is not usually done.  I’ve had many colonoscopies in the past 10 years and no one told me that cuz no one ever got into that area.  When new doctors look at my x-rays or are giving me bowel exams, they always gasp, and sometimes even tell me they’ve never seen anything like my intestines before, and it made me feel like, what did they do to me inside?  Am I a freak of nature?  Were the surgeons drunk? I’ve felt, somehow deformed and inhuman after someone looks at me inside. So my GI did make me feel a little better, that he could see exactly what they did to me.  But I realize I really have to work on not feeling "normal" or even human.  I think that’s why getting bloated for me is so hard, because it’s a reminder of what’s happened inside and makes me feel not only unattractive, but un-human.  And having been noticed for being "thin" and "pretty" since my teens, doing a little modeling, I feel like I don’t *really* live up to those things and I’d better hide it, or else!  Or else what, I don’t know, but it’s something bad. Anyway, while I’m crying right now, I really do feel better for some reason knowing how they tied me up and some of what I’ve written here is even news to me and I’m glad it came out.  I’m sorry for it being so long.  I’m imagining feeling your hugs in advance! I love you all, Vanessa

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I will try to let them know at Shands GI Clinic here in Gainesville that I want to go the visicol route instead of the GOLYTLY and NULYTLY to date with the new preps on the market !!! Love & Peace Maryjo

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I will try to let them know at Shands GI Clinic here in Gainesville that I want to go the visicol route instead of the GOLYTLY and NULYTLY to date with the new preps on the market !!! Love & Peace Maryjo

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you have to swallow about 40 pills at different intervals…i’d much rather do that then drink the s%^t they give you!  good luck!! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I will try to let them know at Shands GI Clinic here in Gainesville that I want to go the visicol route instead of the GOLYTLY and NULYTLY to date with the new preps on the market !!! Love & Peace Maryjo

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Oops, sorry, got carried away. Next morning, you take 20 more pills, same routine. Then go get your drugs and you are in happy land. p.s. Bring your doctor a printout from www.visicol.com – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey there, everybody, My heart just breaks reading these posts about your taking the miserable lyltely prep. PLEASE! ask (tell) you doctor next time you need a prep that you will use Visicol pills.  You can order them yourself from the drugstore ahead of time and just ask your doctor to write the prescription. I did this, I have them, I am just so glad I did it! Now, waiting for colonscopy early next month.  You don’t even have to starve for 2 days! Here’s what happens: You have a light breakfast the day before the procedure. No lunch. Then, around 3pm you take 3 pills with a glass of whatever, tea, water, juice. Do this every 15 min. for a total of 6 more times.  (20 pills) They are big pills, but you can cut them in half if that’s a problem. They are scored, you can use a pill cutter you can buy in the drugstore for under $5. I can’t imagine why you would drink that C…P!!!! Please don’t keep going through this  torture, the pills are here. They are very effective, too, from all reports. Be well, Charlie

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Does anyone know if the Visicol is available in Canada? I’ve looked around and asked at my pharmacy but haven’t been able to find out. Jo. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Oops, sorry, got carried away. Next morning, you take 20 more pills, same routine. Then go get your drugs and you are in happy land. p.s. Bring your doctor a printout from www.visicol.com Hey there, everybody, My heart just breaks reading these posts about your taking the miserable lyltely prep. PLEASE! ask (tell) you doctor next time you need a prep that you will use Visicol pills.  You can order them yourself from the drugstore ahead of time and just ask your doctor to write the prescription. I did this, I have them, I am just so glad I did it! Now, waiting for colonscopy early next month.  You don’t even have to starve for 2 days! Here’s what happens: You have a light breakfast the day before the procedure. No lunch. Then, around 3pm you take 3 pills with a glass of whatever, tea, water, juice. Do this every 15 min. for a total of 6 more times.  (20 pills) They are big pills, but you can cut them in half if that’s a problem. They are scored, you can use a pill cutter you can buy in the drugstore for under $5. I can’t imagine why you would drink that C…P!!!! Please don’t keep going through this  torture, the pills are here. They are very effective, too, from all reports. Be well, Charlie

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Remeber for next time, you can take the new pills and not have to drink the yukky stuff www.inkine.com – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi.  I just drank my second glass of yummy yummy generic-brand Golytely.  Every time I have to drink this stuff, it’s like all of my feelings of anger at having this disease come out and I cry and have a hard time making myself drink it and otherwise act like a baby and feel sorry for myself.  But I’m determined not to act like that this time!  I just drank 2 glasses and I didn’t even gag– that’s an improvement already, believe it or not!  If I can get through this night without crying and acting crazy, I will be very proud of myself! Thanks for listening, -Vanessa

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good luck vanessa… and don’t be so hard on your self… the last time i had a colonoscopy (last march), i cried and drank and cried and drank and gagged and cried and lost my mind.  luckily my wonderful husband (then, fiance) sat with me the whole time and even drank a little golytely himself to *experience* it with me.. the prep is tough and golytely is nasty and sometimes it becomes too much to deal with and we break down.  just know that we all really *understand*… i hope that you are under the "happy drugs" right now and that the procedure is painfree and everything is fine.  good luck and let us know how it went.. i’ll be thinking about you today.  hugs,leighann – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi.  I just drank my second glass of yummy yummy generic-brand Golytely.  Every time I have to drink this stuff, it’s like all of my feelings of anger at having this disease come out and I cry and have a hard time making myself drink it and otherwise act like a baby and feel sorry for myself.  But I’m determined not to act like that this time!  I just drank 2 glasses and I didn’t even gag– that’s an improvement already, believe it or not!  If I can get through this night without crying and acting crazy, I will be very proud of myself! Thanks for listening, -Vanessa

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Hey there, everybody, My heart just breaks reading these posts about your taking the miserable lyltely prep. PLEASE! ask (tell) you doctor next time you need a prep that you will use Visicol pills.  You can order them yourself from the drugstore ahead of time and just ask your doctor to write the prescription.   I did this, I have them, I am just so glad I did it! Now, waiting for colonscopy early next month.  You don’t even have to starve for 2 days! Here’s what happens: You have a light breakfast the day before the procedure. No lunch. Then, around 3pm you take 3 pills with a glass of whatever, tea, water, juice. Do this every 15 min. for a total of 6 more times.  (20 pills) They are big pills, but you can cut them in half if that’s a problem. They are scored, you can use a pill cutter you can buy in the drugstore for under $5. I can’t imagine why you would drink that C…P!!!! Please don’t keep going through this  torture, the pills are here. They are very effective, too, from all reports. Be well, Charlie

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Vanessa, I think it’s great that you were able to drink the 2 glasses.  I can’t even keep one glass down.  Good luck tomorrow, I hope all goes well.

Vanessa,   I’m with Sherry!  I can’t drink even 1whole cup!  I alway have to use the phostphate soda prep with the pills and an enema in the morning just before the test.  It sounds worse than it is!  For me, it is way easier than trying to drink a gallon of that other stuff.  After just a couple of swallows I start throwing up and having chills and just get so very sick!  Then, it doesn’t clean me out anyway because I can’t get enough in me to do any good!  Good luck tomorrow.  You will be in my thoughts and prayers.  Please post if you feel up to it and let us know how it went. Love and Peace,   Margie CD Class of 67 UC Class of 96

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f I can get through this night without crying and acting crazy, I will be very proud of myself!

Dear Vanessa,   And if you don’t it is no reflection on your strength of character (sp?) or anything else.  These are nasy diseases with lots of nasty tests and preps to go with it.  There are so many people who would not be able to go through these things at all.  It is no crime to cry and get very upset with our diseases especially when getting ready for yet another test with more pain and more medications.  You are human and you are normal.  Don’t be so hard on yourself. Your disease is hard enough on you as it is!  Feel free to come back and vent or e-mail me if you care to.  I wish you well. Love,   Margie CD Class of 67 UC Class of 96

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Vanessa, I think it’s great that you were able to drink the 2 glasses.  I can’t even keep one glass down.  Good luck tomorrow, I hope all goes well. :) — Love & Peace, Sherry

Hi.  I just drank my second glass of yummy yummy generic-brand Golytely.  Every time I have to drink this stuff, it’s like all of my feelings of anger at having this disease come out and I cry and have a hard time making myself drink it and otherwise act like a baby and feel sorry for myself.  But I’m determined not to act like that this time!  I just drank 2 glasses and I didn’t even gag– that’s an improvement already, believe it or not!  If I can get through this night without crying and acting crazy, I will be very proud of myself! Thanks for listening, -Vanessa

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Good luck tonight and tomorrow Vanessa.  I can’t drink the whole gallon either so I drink until I just cannot possibly drink one more drop.  I usually can drink a little over 2/3rds of the gallon.  I am soooo hungry after the test! ~~~~Pat CD Class of 98 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -"Vanessa Beck"  wrote Hi.  I just drank my second glass of yummy yummy generic-brand Golytely.  Every time I have to drink this stuff, it’s like all of my feelings of anger at having this disease come out and I cry and have a hard time making myself drink it and otherwise act like a baby and feel sorry for myself.  But I’m determined not to act like that this time!  I just drank 2 glasses and I didn’t even gag– that’s an improvement already, believe it or not!  If I can get through this night without crying and acting crazy, I will be very proud of myself! Thanks for listening, -Vanessa

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LOL!  Ha he he he :*)  (That’s a 3/4-view smiley-face.  I went to art school.) Jeremie is a very good cook.   I’m lucky for that too! -Vanessa – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The only reason you didn’t gag is because you have been eating french food.. if you can eat snails… you can swallow anything. 8-) Mike Hi.  I just drank my second glass of yummy yummy generic-brand Golytely.  Every time I have to drink this stuff, it’s like all of my feelings of anger at having this disease come out and I cry and have a hard time making myself drink it and otherwise act like a baby and feel sorry for myself.  But I’m determined not to act like that this time!  I just drank 2 glasses and I didn’t even gag– that’s an improvement already, believe it or not!  If I can get through this night without crying and acting crazy, I will be very proud of myself! Thanks for listening, -Vanessa All opinions expressed are mine unless otherwise noted. Copyright

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