This is a disgusting topic, but ever so crucial to our health! We all need to heed our doctor's advice and have one after age 50.
I recently had one, and learned something very important from the nurses! To have one, you have to drink a gallon (16 cups) of the nastiest stuff in the world! I thought I'd throw it up, more than once.

The test itself is a cake walk. However, when I got to the hospital and talked with the nurses they asked me how it went, drinking the junk.

I told them how awful it was, and here comes the great advice: don't opt for the gallon of stuff to drink. The nurses told me that there is another option that you can request, where you have to fast a bit longer, but only have to drink one glass of something nasty! After having the other way, I can only say plan B is the way to go!!!!!

When Daddy has his right mind, he had these test and was told to drink the stuff too. It was called "Go Lightly" of all things. Daddy called it "Go Quickly." It could stop wars if we made the enemgy drink that stuff as punishment...eeek!

Hi Seth...great to see you again. Please tell us about your test results. Is everything okay?

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My results were fine. They found 3 polups and
removed them.

Re. the virtual colonoscopy. You still have to go through the nasty prep, and if they find something, you have to go back in and go through the prep all over. I was going to do that, until I found out that you still have to "clean out", so I decided to do the whole nine yards, and I'm glad I did!

Seth and Ladies, I have to apologize for the post on Virtual Colonoscopy. I was badly mislead by the advertisin I read. This mrning I drove across town and spoke directly to the physicians at the clicic and Seth is completely correct. Unfortunately I was mislead as apparently were many others coming in for this NEW procedure. There is at times "truth in advertising" I gav that doctor a huge piece of my mind. Again, I apologize. Its all no fun, no matter what they do to us.

"NO truth in advertising" is what I meant to say...

Seth, glad to hear things went well. thank God for all this preventive medicine!

AS I understand it, if you have your colonoscopies done on a regular basis you will never get colon cancer because it won't have time to grow!

[ April 29, 2004, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: Dotsie ]

I had that test about 10 years ago and am overdue for another.

GoLightly had a 15-second BarfLife in my system, which means it made me throw up in 15 seconds or less. Tried it twice at home and realized it wasn't going to stay down. Next day I told the Doc I couldn't take that stuff. He said "Let me see what happens" so I drank it and SPLAAAAAT. Then I got the other foul-tasting drink. A nurse told me to water it down with ice cubes so it wouldn't taste as bad. Unfortunately, I also had to redo the fasting and um, cleaning.

The whole experience was pretty horrible. I've gone as far as getting the approval for the next test entered in the HMO computer.

I haven't had one of these yet, but I understand they work miracles by preventing cancer. I'd say vomit for a day to stay away form the big "C" is worth it. What do you think?