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I've only had one. I'm 42 but my father died from colon cancer, so I have to be careful. Only had two tiny polyps. Gotta go back in 5 years.

I had the Fleet Phospho prep and it was deathly for me. I was so dehydrated I had the worst headache of my life and it took them 5 tries to get an IV going. I'm not looking forward to the next one.

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Regarding dehydration: I was incredibly dehydrated during the night before the colonoscopy. The instructions I had received said you couldn't drink anything after midnight. I was suffering so badly I did drink some water.

The next day I mentioned it to the nurse and she said "oh, we were going to change the instructions. There's no problem in drinking overnight!"