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Failed prep for colonoscopy: What can I do?
Digestive Health | Last Active: May 16 10:35am | Replies (156)Comment receiving replies
I am so sorry to hear about your challenges. I am not a healthcare provider but have experienced GI issues for many years. Another patient on this portal posted about taking tablets instead of drinking the fluid for the Colonoscopy prep. You may want to ask your doctor about SUTABS. Here is the link:
https://www.sutab.com/WhySutab
You can also ask your doctor about doing a cologuard test which is from a poop sample so does not require a prep. You can also ask your doctor about Ondansetron to help with the nausea but I'm not sure how this affects the prep but your doctor would know. I found this medication to help quickly with nausea but it does slow down the track and so it can lead to constipation. At least that is what I experienced. I hope you find a solution. I have lost many friends to colon cancer. Sending you positive thoughts.
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Thank you so much for info about Sutab and Ondansetron. Really appreciate it.
I'm disappointed that my Dr. has never mentioned them. He must be aware of alternatives . . .
Has anyone heard about the FMT pill that hopefully will be approved April 26th this year? Just read a NYTimes article. It goes under name of SER-109 and is lab-manufactured by Seres Therapeutics in Mass.
I am 70 yrs old and just did the Su Tabs prep. Prep has always been terrible for me, lasting all night and no sleep at all. However, this time was the absolute worst. By the time morning came I was crying and bleeding from lesions. It felt like acid coming out of me. During the colonoscopy ( I could barely get dressed to go to the procedure) I apparently had an acid reflux event which ultimately ended up in pneumonia. But what I learned from reading my colonoscopy report was that I had a “tortuous colon” that made the colonoscopy “difficult”. This was the first time anyone had ever said this and I had had a few miserable colonoscopies before this. Apparently this explains why it took so long to complete the prep because a tortuous or redundant colon is much longer and twistier than the average so it takes twice as long for me to process food ( or colon prep). Also explains why I have always had constipation problems! Might check into this if you have colonoscopy prep problems.
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I have had a few colonoscopies the past 12 years- also sluggish motility. I have failed prep all the time and have to start over. The last one 2021 was almost clean the second time. I also get sick from the prep. Severe nausea- I’m allowed to take ondansetron but it slows everything down.
I’m 78 and told myself I’m not going through that prep again. It takes me 2 weeks to recuperate.