Readers who may wish RantWoman would stick to less forthright discussion of medical events are welcome to skip this post.
RantWoman has had to take a break from some of her news stream rabbit holes to deal with medical circumstances, in particular a colonoscopy. Please note RantWoman has NO financial interest beyond making the most of her own healthcare time and resources in offering the comments below.
Readers may be familiar with the pre-test diet regimen: soft foods for 2 days and then only clear liquid diet the day before and the morning of the procedure. Let us not forget the night before round of drinking a solution designed to generate colon cleansing diarrhea and a repeat of the ritual the day of the procedure.
The deets:
1. RantWoman has now experienced two different brands of the solution that is supposed to clear one's colon to make it easier for the doctor to pass needed instruments through the colon and to tell what may be abnormal growths apart from bits of the things that usually pass through one's colon. RantWoman especially appreciates getting this year's instructions out of MyChart, in a PDF that RantWoman was able to make sense of but cannot guarantee that others with less vision would be as well served by.
One prep solution called GoLytely comes as crystals in a half-gallon bottle. The crystals are to be mixed with water and then refrigerated and consumed according to the two-day instructions outlined above. It is HARD to get the solution shaken up enough to dissolve all the crystals It is also hard to consume all the solution, especially if there is still grit in the bottom of the bottle on the second day.
The process of expelling what is to be expelled also came with a lot of cramps and discomfort.
RantWoman may look up her test results for the test that used this prep to see whether the prep received any kind of grade was assigned. RantWoman does specifically remember reading in the results that there was still material inside the colon at the time of the procedure.
This time, RantWoman was prescribed a product called SuPrep. This product is 2 6-oz bottles of solution and a one-pint mixing container. It does matter to shake up the bottle before mixing it with water and to follow the directions about drinking 6-8 glasses of water after each dose and, for the morning dose no later than 2 hours before the procedure.
For the evening dose, RantWoman actually did not start with water. She started with ice and then added water. NO massive cramping. One fleeting moment of possible nausea that went away with more water. One easy passage and then lots of flowing liquid.
Ditto for the morning, after a breakfast of mushroom broth and apple grape juice, work on the second bottle. Lots of flowing liquid.
2. For RantWoman's trouble, the visit report noted that she received an A+ in bowel prep according to the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale
3. RantWoman received this score despite the fact that she deviated or improvised about a couple elements of the recommended diet. The soft foods list recommended creamy peanut butter, not to be found around RantWoman's house and no legumes. RantWoman buys a commercial brand of humus that is definitely all puree. So humus was on the menu. RantWoman also invested in some very dark nontransparent mushroom broth. The flavor was worth it.
In order to distract herself from her news rabbit holes, RantWoman gave brief though to intereacting with the instructions from an accessibility standpoint or if one needs information in another language. RantWoman also wondered about whether the suggested items in the different categories of soft food and clear liquid would all be meaningful to people who are vegans or whose cultural diets differ from the suggested foods. RantWoman wondered about this and will note the problem, perhaps at the next round of meeting which RantWoman missed this time because of medical adventures.
4. There was only one polyp found. The pathology report was nothing to worry about. And there's more, but let's stop here for now!
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