Cronk
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I had a top and end checkup during the week - colonoscopy and gastroscopy. I've reached an age where medical advice is for routine checks - annually for gastroscopy and three yearly for colonoscopy. I've had polyps removed from both ends in the past.
Preparation for the gastroscopy is easy - fasting from some time the day before. The other one requires a good clean of the pipes. A week before, avoid certain things nuts, muesli. Day-2 is a white diet (most white foods but not all) including white meat, eggs, potatos, white bread (low fibre), milk coffee/tea. I had eggs on toast and broiled chick breast (keeping the broiling fluid for the next day).
Day-1 is clear fluid diet. Chicken noodle soup without the noodles, my chicken broth, sports elecrolizer drinks, lemonade but also including black coffee/tea. It's also necessary to have about 2 pints of some sort of super laxative at prescribed times over the day and stay very close to a bathroom. The stuff is super effective. Billy Connolly described his (exaggerated) experience here.
On Day0 I had to take another half a pint of the laxative at 3.45am and any other clear fluids if I wanted but nil by mouth from 4.45am, for check in the hospital at 7.45am. Into theatre at 8.30am and vaguely conscious in recovery around 10.00am.
The nursing staff say for the next 24 hours, no driving or operating machinery and making crucial decisions. My wife tells me that I am inclined on the ride home to make some majestic pronouncements all of which are hilarious.
Preparation for the gastroscopy is easy - fasting from some time the day before. The other one requires a good clean of the pipes. A week before, avoid certain things nuts, muesli. Day-2 is a white diet (most white foods but not all) including white meat, eggs, potatos, white bread (low fibre), milk coffee/tea. I had eggs on toast and broiled chick breast (keeping the broiling fluid for the next day).
Day-1 is clear fluid diet. Chicken noodle soup without the noodles, my chicken broth, sports elecrolizer drinks, lemonade but also including black coffee/tea. It's also necessary to have about 2 pints of some sort of super laxative at prescribed times over the day and stay very close to a bathroom. The stuff is super effective. Billy Connolly described his (exaggerated) experience here.
On Day0 I had to take another half a pint of the laxative at 3.45am and any other clear fluids if I wanted but nil by mouth from 4.45am, for check in the hospital at 7.45am. Into theatre at 8.30am and vaguely conscious in recovery around 10.00am.
The nursing staff say for the next 24 hours, no driving or operating machinery and making crucial decisions. My wife tells me that I am inclined on the ride home to make some majestic pronouncements all of which are hilarious.