Pretty similar to my experience, except that I had to drink a whole gallon of that lemon-flavored camel spit. They found that I had ulcerative colitis, and kept me in the hospital for 5 days, which was horrible. I’ve had a couple more colonoscopies since then, and found out something else. They won’t let you drive home afterwards, so you have to lie and say you have a ride, or spend a day in the hospital.
When my husband had his colonoscopy, he only had to drink a small amount of some stuff we bought at the drug store. For anyone having this procedure, many docs now use this prep, rather than the gallon sized junk. I don’t know why any of them still use the huge amount of “pre-clean” stuff.
As for me, I can’t get myself to do this. Part of it is the fear of the 17,000 foot tube, but part is even sillier - I am too embarrassed about my old body and how it looks. I know - doctors don’t care - but I just can’t get past it. Stupid, I know.
Where I go, you can't lie about that because they want the person driving you home to be right there...can't even call a cab to take you home. And you have to be wheeled out to the car-they won't let you walk. I guess that's good for me because it takes forever for those meds to wear off...