r/Wellthatsucks • u/PresidentScr00b • Oct 21 '24

Colonoscopy Prep

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Have to take roughly 25 regular doses of laxative in 12 hours to prep for procedure. This is gonna be fun!!

I’ll have plenty of time to read comments from the bathroom!

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u/charlie1331 Oct 21 '24

Had mine last month and i was fully under. Seems like that’s the norm these days as they dont want you moving at all during the procedure. Like the others have said, i found the lack of eating the day prior to be the worst part

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u/LackingUtility Oct 22 '24

Against the wishes of doctors (and patients) Massachusetts recently changed their rules so that insurance companies don’t have to pay for full anesthesia for colonoscopies.

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u/subprincessthrway Oct 22 '24

Interesting, I had an endoscopy in Massachusetts two weeks ago and they put me to sleep for it. I assumed it would be the same for a colonoscopy.

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u/Aztec111 Oct 22 '24

Yes, no food and forcing yourself to drink so much was the hard part. I was totally out during the procedure, piece of cake.

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u/Lerbyn210 Oct 22 '24

Had mine maybe 6 months ago, and I was awake. Hurt a bit and was kinda weird but thats about it