Silly Non-GI Doctor Visit Question - I can't eat or drink all day?
06/07/04 07:49 PM
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AstroChick
Reged: 12/30/03
Posts: 1023
Loc: Chicago, IL, USA
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I have a sorta non-IBS question for you all, particularly for other members of the delicate-flower, vapors-prone, dizzy-and-weak-when-it-gets-hot club: 
There was a message left on my answering machine from my doctor's office, where I'm getting my annual exam late tomorrow afternoon. The message confirmed my appointment and said that I should not drink or eat 8 hours before the appt.
Has anyone ever had this for a plain ol' annual exam before? And how the heck am I going to not eat or drink from 8:30 am until whenever my doctor's appt is over when it will be the hottest and most humid day of the year? I get weak and woozy enough when I don't get enough liquids and salt and when I contemplate being in the doc's office with all those needles and stuff....this may be really unfun.  And yeah, it will NOT make my IBS any easier, since my occasional D loves to show up when I'm all weak from the heat.
I'd love any suggestions from y'all about how I might deal with this. I suppose fainting dead away in the doc's office might convince her to give me an am appointment if she's going to spring this on me, but I think that's a last resort.
--a puzzled AC
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