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Oh don't be scared, please. You'll do fine. I guess I'm the only one here so far that had a worse procedure than the prep. I actually was anticipating it the other way around. Did I ever prepare for the prep! This will make you laugh. I set up my bathroom like a mini-condo, complete with all the old magazines I'd been planning to go though, and strung a LONG cable wire in there so I could have a little TV, not to mention the ice chest to keep the "stuff" cold, bottled water, etc. Ok, didn't really have to make my bathroom my cell after all. Started at 5 PM and by 8 it was all over. What the pharmacist told me was that when what comes out is what went in you're over. One tip: I had to drink a cup full of the "stuff" every 15 minutes (watch your time on this one as time goes fast at that route). I knew I wanted to get the liquid down fast so I drank it with a straw and put the straw back in my mouth as was comfortable then quickly and continuously sucked until it was down with only a few gulps. I hardly had to taste the overly salty stuff.
I didn't use wet wipes as suggested here, but a swip of neosporin once clean after a "go". It helped.

Now MY procedure I won't go into, since I think I was unique and it was not pleasant. Let's just say I was way to awake, saw to much and felt even more---but then it turns out I developed some sever hypersensitivity to pain issues with the onset of IBS.

Hope this helps....Kandee

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