At 12:30..... I'm so stinking hungry right now and this prep has got me running to the toilet every 5 mins. I'm just trying to decide on the restaurant I'm going to go to tomorrow after my appointment and what food I'll feast on. beef bullion and jello ain't cutting it!

I got on the toilet once I started the prep and for about 3 or so hours stayed there.

Let's change the subject. Mine is scheduled for a few weeks from now.

No biggie especially since my results were good. Just a real chore and about as embare as sing as can be.

Yep, had three so far. Perp is the only bad part. Just sit down, start, read and have the Mrs ready to bing your next drink and another roll...............

I've posted this before, but you got to read Dave Barry's column about this.

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928847.html

Here's an excerpt---

"I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis. Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, ``HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BUTT!''

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called ''MoviPrep,'' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes -- and here I am being kind -- like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, ''a loose watery bowel movement may result.'' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet."

This stuff right here will have you able to chit through a screen door.

That Dave Barry detail is hilarious ..... and accurate! I'm overdue for my 3rd or 4th one and gonna schedule it in a few weeks. I'm always hungry as a starving Ethiopian afterwards

Don't sweat it too much. I had it done a few months ago. The fretting was the worst part, really. The physician and nurses have seen it all before. But I did feel a little violated after the drugs wore off.

Good Luck, I am doing the Deed Thursday for the 3 rd. time.

I'd think long and hard about raising my leg and ripping one for the next week or so.

I thought I was going to be buried in a shoe box

For those visiting and thinking of joining here...yes we really discuss everything.And good luck&health to our colonscopist folks.

This will be my second one coming up and the first wasn't bad. The liquid diet and the prep were the worst part, specifically, the hunger and the worry that the prep is not actually finished when you think it is. Since I live an hour from the procedure site, I carried a 5 gallon bucket with me. Thankfully, I was fretting over nothing and the bucket remained unused that day.

A heads up, my next one is set for June 23, so if you see a 5 gallon bucket sitting on the side of Hwy 80 between Selma and Montgomery that day, just leave it be.

I've had 5 done. I'm only 32. The prep now ain't chit to what it used to be. I was 14 when I had my first one done. They gave me this clear liquid that was in one ounce bottles. I only had 2 of them and thought it can't be that bad. You mixed 1/4 of the bottle to a bottle of water. No big deal. I chugged the bottle down and it was horrible. So I thought. Before I made it in the living room it hit. I spent the rest of night in the bathroom. At one point my a$$ was dry heaving so bad it pulled my eyes back in my head. Didn't even know that was possible. But I had to drink water between each dose. By the end of the night it seamed that I could turn up a bottle of water and it didn't even have time to warm up on the way out. Worst part was after everything was done when I'm leaving the hospital. I walk out in the main lobby and their sits the uab cheer squad apparently in for physicals. I'm standing there in my pajama pants bow legged with my hair all jacked up like I had just been rapped. To this day I swear all those girls knew what had just happened.

Aww crap.

Yep that's what I got. Just woke up and almost didn't make it haha

Clarkgriswold, that's freaking hilarious! Thanks for the read!

I told them to take some of my copay and buy better toilet paper. The place I went had only one commode in the bathroom and it was being cleaned when we got there.

Yep, that's the stuff.

After I had to drink it, I was afraid to look behind me because I was sure I was going to see a sustained rainbow from the um, atomized activivity back there. I camped out in my shop bathroom all day instead of staying home.