[Janus]

  I had a GI bleed, and had to make a nice little trip to the emergency room. Nothing seemed tremendously wrong and I was sent home. Still, I now have to get a friggin camera up my rear, and I'm not even on a reality show!

 My diet has to significantly change until then, so any recommendations on what I SHOULD NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES be having in my diet for the next week or so?

---I already know not to drink anything with red dye the day before---

 On a side note, this really ticks me off. I'm not horrendously overweight (20-25 pounds) but I still don't enjoy being fat. Since I can't do any strenuous exercise, what can I do to get back in shape that's low impact?

J- Splice together the footage of monkeys screeching and people debating on news shows, THEN you got an eye-opener.

[MunchWolf]

I had blood come out my ass and went to a doctor ... they stuck a camera up my butt ... there's a thread about it somewhere around here ... anyway ... they found nothing ...

They speculate I have an 'invisible hemmaroid' ... bah ... and they left it at that ... so ... yeah ... once a month or so I bleed ...

-Munch "I wonder if I should stick a tampon up my butt" Wolf

[solvegas]

Try swimming if you know how. Low impact and only as streanous as need be.

[pedonbio]

Munch, that camera-up-the-ass is nature's way of telling us when we're aging. Gawd, I hate it, but it beats the alternatives.

pedon "Hmm. Death or shitting in a bag. Hmmm" bio

[Palomine]

 Sorry to hear about that Janus. Your Dr. probably told you, but there's more than just 'avoid dark/red liquids the day before' to colonoscopy prep... presumably they did or will give you a sheet of instructions, usually involving fasting, laxatives (sometimes called something like 'golightly') and perhaps a disposable enema or two.

As for diet in general (not just adjustments to pretty you up for the camera ) that's something else your Dr. ought to be able to offer advice on. My understanding is that the effectiveness of dietary changes depends on a variety of factors, including the cause and location of the source of bleeding in the GI tract, i.e.: if the bleeding is caused by ulcerations way down near the end of the GI tract, then it's less likely that a change in diet will reduce symptoms, as opposed to a stomach ulcer, where a diet change could be more effective.

It goes w/o saying of course, that you should also avoid eating anything that you know causes issues. Good luck.  

[MunchWolf]

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 Sorry to hear about that Janus. Your Dr. probably told you, but there's more than just 'avoid dark/red liquids the day before' to colonoscopy prep... presumably they did or will give you a sheet of instructions, usually involving fasting, laxatives (sometimes called something like 'golightly') and perhaps a disposable enema or two.  

Oh my god ... you get to drink the drink from HELL ... it's like a thick syrupy chalky soapy godawful thing ... that causes you to shit the runs every 30 minutes in the worst possible way ... you sound like a spaceship taking off ... I kid you not ...

-Munch "and you thought sticking a camera up your ass would be the worst part" Wolf

[Quadhouse]

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 Sorry to hear about that Janus. Your Dr. probably told you, but there's more than just 'avoid dark/red liquids the day before' to colonoscopy prep... presumably they did or will give you a sheet of instructions, usually involving fasting, laxatives (sometimes called something like 'golightly') and perhaps a disposable enema or two.  

Oh my god ... you get to drink the drink from HELL ... it's like a thick syrupy chalky soapy godawful thing ... that causes you to shit the runs every 30 minutes in the worst possible way ... you sound like a spaceship taking off ... I kid you not ...

-Munch "and you thought sticking a camera up your ass would be the worst part" Wolf

[shudders]  I do not have fond memories of that stuf.  No, I've never had to drink it, but I've had to deal with the aftermath.  I'ts not pretty.

[ftl03]

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Oh my god ... you get to drink the drink from HELL ... it's like a thick syrupy chalky soapy godawful thing ... that causes you to shit the runs every 30 minutes in the worst possible way ... you sound like a spaceship taking off ... I kid you not ...

-Munch "and you thought sticking a camera up your ass would be the worst part" Wolf

Aah fond memories.
Done it twice now and I shall take the memory of both times to the grave.
The stuff you have to drink (based on Epsom salts I think) causes the intestine to osmose water out of the bloodstream, so you drink 6 pints but shit at least a gallon.
You start off thinking "This isn't working", then an hour later "Oh yes it is working now, but that's not so bad", then another hour and you're shouting "Make it stop! Thank god I think it's over... oh no it isn't!".

As for diet before the probing, your doctor should really have told you what to eat/not to eat.

Avoid anything with residue, i.e. fiber. E.g. two days before no more red meat, tomatoes, citrus fruit etc. Stick to chicken, white fish, rice, boiled potatos, pasta. If I remeber correctly on the evening before I was allowed a slice of ham and rice/potatoes, nothing else.

[Janus]

I've had food poisoning before. (Yay College Park Cafeteria food!) One time it was so bad I described it as "giving birth to the Nile." I'm guessing it's that times 5.

 Of course this time I won't have an industrial "evidence flusher" toilet that you usually find in a public restroom, which was thankfully placed in our individual bathroom.

J- Head on straight, mask on crooked.

[3deroticer]

I am absent minded at times and drank the stuff down and just realize that the colonoscopty was the next week, and so I had to drink it over again.

I just had a camera up my peepee 2 weeks ago and I ask if the doctor could loop the footage of the camera going thru the shaft to make it appear longer.

[Imaginos]

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 Sorry to hear about that Janus. Your Dr. probably told you, but there's more than just 'avoid dark/red liquids the day before' to colonoscopy prep... presumably they did or will give you a sheet of instructions, usually involving fasting, laxatives (sometimes called something like 'golightly') and perhaps a disposable enema or two.  

Oh my god ... you get to drink the drink from HELL ... it's like a thick syrupy chalky soapy godawful thing ... that causes you to shit the runs every 30 minutes in the worst possible way ... you sound like a spaceship taking off ... I kid you not ...

-Munch "and you thought sticking a camera up your ass would be the worst part" Wolf

That would be Colyte iirc. Comes with a few sad packets of flavor mix for 1 gallon that you must drink 12 hours or so before your colonoscopy.  Not a fun time for sure.

[Imaginos]

You're supposed to avoid food with seeds in it too.

So Janus what were the results? Hemmheroid? Rupture? Tear? Polyp? Too many beets?