Hey guys.. I'm new to the group... I've been questioning my doctor's choice of first giving me a RX for Half-Lytely for my "colon"oscopy... I haven't had a colon for oh... 13 years...

Anyway... I've been reading various places that say you shouldn't do any kind of prep if you have a j-pouch. Is this the case? The last 3 GI doc's I've been to have all given me RXs for bowel preps like I have a colon. I did halflytely once and it made me sooooo sick... I was cramping and miserable. The last prep I did was 2 bottles of Magnesium Citrate... it wasn't too bad...

Anyone have any advice or experiances with this?

Thanks!

Gen

(I can't wait until tomorrow afternoon when my scopes are over with and I can eat again :P )

Well, I just had a flex sig this month..no colon, no colonoscopy , right? Anyway, for prep I was nothing by mouth except clear liquids til four hours before procedure( although I tried to eat light the day before and stopped liquids after midnight anyway)then did a small fleets enema before test. No problems with the scope.
LoriP

I just a scope done today and my GI gave me Pico-Salax to drink the morning of to clean me out. I also had to drink the same stuff for a small bowel follow-through a couple of weeks ago.

I have tried the enemas but found that because I still had food coming through they weren't able to see enough.

I don't enjoy the drink cleansing so I went on clear fluids for a day before the scope and only drank half the stuff so that I wasn't cramping and going all day long.

My daughter gets scoped every year and she goes on a clear liquid diet the day before and in the evening she takes about 2 tablespoons of milk of magnesia and that does the rest. Just nothing red in color. She does broth, icepops,gingerale and sprite, teas no milk, jello, you know the drill.

I had the same hesitations about having a scope done when he kept saying "colonoscopy" I kept saying, "you do know I don't have a colon right? have you ever done this on someone with a JPouch?"
So how often should we get scoped? I have to say that I've felt like I'm just done the last few years. If I go see a Gastro doctor for a check up or just to see if I can find a doctor I trust and they want to run all the same tests on me I've had done a million times over the last ten years to "see what's wrong with me." I say forget it. I've refused to let this one guy run all the scopes and tests until he got me in the hospital when I had a blockage and I didn't have a choice.
I guess I'm just tired of having every doctor run the tests and then saying, "well, you seem to know your own body, call us if you have a problem." It's like they all expect to be able to figure something out the one before them couldn't.
Sorry, that's my rant. I'm sure I should be scolded and not so angry about having all the tests but do you realize how fried my insides are from all the x-rays and crap we've all been through? My ovaries are probably producing scrambled eggs down there!

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, I don't have to prep at all. I don't, but I could eat or drink right up until the test. My surgeon recommends scopes with biopsies once a year. I'm not sedated, and it's really quick and painless.

janna

janna....do you see Dr Bauer and Dr Bub by any chance???

Funny you ask - I see Dr Bauer and no prep is necessary. Even the prep for the BIG surgery was lighter than I expected.

Goodbye, I see Dr. Jeffrey Milsom at Cornell. Who is your surgeon?

janna

hi keith..nice to meet ya...i asked because i have my first scope after my operation in April and he did not tell me to prep (which im happy about)...so how do you like them?????..Overall i was very happy with them...nice to talk to ya

Janna...I see Dr Bauer and Dr Bub out of Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC

I just had a scope and had to use halflytely. I meet with my surgeon who asked that my GI do the test and ask him if I need to do that in the past. I kept asking the same question-You know I don't have a colon? The scope came out clear so I hope I am done for a while. It did not show any pouchitis and hopefully the biopsy was clear. I will find out Tuesday.