Fasting today even though not required for tomorrows pouchoscopy 10-10

I’d suggest doing both enemas. They’re the best way to clear residue out of a J-pouch, and your goal is to rinse off the walls so nothing gets missed.

Thanks scott

but there’s no harm in fasting today all day 10-9 before pouchoscopy tommorrow at 11 for a 10 am arrival ?

I just feel like I’ll be the cleanest wo solids today all day before hand

on the other hand wondering how the diarrhea will interact or effect insertion of the enema tip into rectum if it will play a roll

i have Gatorade for tidsy broth and popsicles

not eating for a day sucks but I want to ensure I’m cleared properly even though office said I didn’t have to fast

bottom line I have given myself enema with tap water pre mucosectomy not post op this will be my first post operative’ly so I’m obsessing about how it will go that’s all

len

Hardly any stool comming out from pouch when I have to poop and it’s only 1035 am my time eastern standard, 1 day before pouchoscopy

i am fasting today and then two tap water enemas till clear morning of scope tommorrow 10/10

my anxiety is around the enemas to make sure I get enough tap water up the wazzoo so I took it upon myself to fast all day today so the giving self enema process would go easier tommorrow morning

i feel pretty empty it’s just my anxiety causing me reluctance to eat as instructed day before scope and the pending outcome results causing great anxiety too

i receive pouchoscopy at every 6 month intervals by the way because of gap and pouch polyps etc

len

I had a Gatorade zero lime cucumber flavor and apple juice diluted with water thus far to drink

1040am Wednesday 1 day before scope

dripping a bit of blood into toilet I guess it’s hemmroidal bc polyp blood does not drip into toilet

The fasting isn’t likely to do you any harm, unless it somehow interferes with your morning enemas. I wish I had any useful advice about your anxiety, but I’m sending my best wishes in any case.

I always do clear liquids and a bottle of mag citrate the day before. My new GI ordered the standard sigmoid prep with clear liquids, Miralax, and mag citrate but that is overkill. I guess it all depends on your own transit times.

Jan

Thank you

I’ve been given different opinions and instruction from 5 different nurses

some said two enemas only either fleet contained or warm tap watered but the latest is to do the msg cutrate which I started on at 6 about 39 mins ago my time

i confessed to the staff I ate a few slices of Genoa salami two precut slices of cheese and a entire apple all at 3 pm today

dr relayed to staff member to tell me to do the mag citrate 10oz bottle

im on the 3rd sip of it at 650 tonight/soon

2nd may citrate for me after 23 years

my pouch was built /colectomy October 15 2001 so 23 years ago for jpouch/colectomy I last drank this crap

fox chase will revise their instructions my flexsig  instructions say have a light dinner no later than 5 not don’t have solids the day before pouchoscopy

they apologized today and will make clearer instructions

thanks for your well wishes/and responses. And I’m more nervous about the results afterward nothing else

i do this every 6 months of late pouchoscopies especially since moving in from a private gastro of 22 years and switching practices one that is progressive and cutting edge

Thanks Jan!!

my instructions said have a light dinner at the bottom not clears all day the day before. At 3 I had a spoke two slices of cheese and some precut salami Genoa because of different input from like 5 different nurses

one said stopping eating wasn’t necessary today the day before

I’ll do my enemas tommorrow pouchoscopy morning but the dr wanted the mag citrate too

abd I’m post trans anal mucosectomy 4/17/24 I thought not having a rectal cuff anymore I could get away with just enemas but if I ate today then I guess not I need the mag citrate

regardless fox chase will revise their instructions because they are misleading and inaccurate