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Hello Sue,

Ok, I'll try my best to answer some questions for you, I'd hardly consider myself a "pro" (I'm not a pro at anything medical, huge suck!) but I'll see what I can do. First, have you read Jill Skylar's post on the prep that is on the Crohn's/Colitis board? It's great, I took a lot of her advice and it really helped. It's a sticky post so it should be at the top of the board. Here's a link: http://www.helpforibs.com/messageboards/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=IBD&Number=20349&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Ok, so for what to mix it with, I used gingerale, and as weird as this may sound, I added extra sugar to the gingerale and it seemed to help the taste. My mom used to always tell me that sugar mixed into pop gets rid of the carbonation, so that's what I was trying to accomplish, but it actually helped the taste. I would recommend starting with just a little bit of whatever your mixing with, seeing if you can tolerate it, and then adding more to get it to where you can drink it. Don't start with a huge amount, because then if you still don't like the taste, you're stuck with even more to drink!

You also may want to mix it with something you don't normally like to drink all the time, because for me, I don't think I ever want to see gingerale again! (although I'm sure I'll get over it).

If you're someone who gets nauseous easily, I would recommend some Gravol before hand to help make sure you keep the prep down. Strangely, I didn't have much trouble until almost 9 hours after I took the first Fleet, but then I got really nauseous. You'd want to check with your doctor first, and be sure to tell them when you get there how much Gravol you took, but I took 2 an hour before the first prep, and 2 an hour before the second one and had lots of ginger tea (helps with nausea).

You have to travel eh? Is that because there are no places that do it where you live? Is it at all possible for you to wait until you've arrived where you're going to do the prep? I just found that I was "going" for more than 12 hours straight, wouldn't have wanted to be travelling, although everyone is different in that regards.

Definately try and drink as much as you can (remember nothing red!) because you will get dehydrated. I had Gatorade and everything but I was still pretty dehyrdated by the time I got to the hospital.

As for how long it took me to wake up, not too long at all actually. I have a really high tolerance for sedating drugs and always wake up quickly from anesthesia. I was a little awake when they were wheeling me to recovery, and I would say fully awake about 30 minutes afterwards. I was groggy the rest of the day, but not too bad. I didn't get any sleep the day or night before, so I think that contributed to how much I slept afterwards.

I actually didnt' have any polyps removed, they just took biopsies, and I actually haven't noticed any bleeding. If it helps, I was told that as long as your not bleeding more than 1/2 cup (don't know how you could tell that), you're ok.

Hope this answered some of your questions, and good luck! I assume maybe you've had one before because in your post you mentioned the colyte prep, but if you haven't, don't worry about the procedure, it was a breeze! The prep truly is the worst part

If you have any other questions, feel free to post, I should be on and off all day! BTW, where are you going to have your procedure?

Take care,
Kelly

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