Why the beginning of this week will suck for me

Note the spoilers cover some gross stuff read at your own peril.

I’ve been having some bowel issues for a while (that kept me from the dope fest) and I promised myself for turning 35 (which will happen Wed) I will have myself checked out.

The problem is not related to any specific food I’m eating and presents itself as

  1. A Bowel Movement of relativity normalcy

intact feces brown in color no occult blood. Occasional fresh blood from a tear due to size of feces

  1. Within 20-30 minutes another movement

this time very soft and mud like. It looks like a combination cement/mudlside also brown

  1. Within 10-15 minutes of this another movement

This time it’s like I’m shitting water. Brown water that burns my ass at times but water none the less. I don’t notice any feces in this

After the 3rd movement I’m good again.

So as I said I’m turning 35 on Wednesday so on Tuesday I’m getting an ass-o-scope I mean a colonostomy

So tomorrow from 9:00 am on I’m not to eat any food. All I can have is clear liquids and jello (no red or purple) Also I can’t have any fat so I’m looking at fat free broths.

When I get home tomorrow night I get to drink my MoviPrep which I am sooooo looking forward to :rolleyes:

Then After 12 midnight Monday (going into Tuesday) I can’t have anything orally including water. This will be fun because my CPAP gives me cottonmouth. Then at 10:30AM on Tuesday I get to have a procedure I will not remember.

After this I’m going to want some real food so I’m going out for Deli with my mother. Then it’s home to pack for a wonderful night my myself in AC. Harrah’s comped me a room so I will be enjoying the pool. I have the room for Tuesday & Wed Night so I will check out Wed afternoon and go up to Edison for my Birthday Sushi dinner.

This happens to me about 8 hours after ingesting sorbitol (even as small amount as a pea-sized bit of toothpaste) or foods that have potassium sorbate in them as a preservative.

Still a good idea to have a colonoscopy.

Have you been keeping a food diary?
Are you on any meds or supplements?
Good luck with the entire butt reaming!

This describes my IBS symptoms exactly.

Hmm I haven’t noticed if the foods have Sorbitol or not in them. I need to look into that

No to the food diary. Yes to the med’s nut I had the problem before I started on the meds (Testosterone cream for low testosterone)

The doctor said it’s most likely IBS but wants to rule out any inflammation. My father did have polyps in his colon but they were not cancerous. The Dr. thinks my IBS may be stress induced.

I’m hoping that it all goes as well as it possibly can. As we say in the opera - “Wishing you a warm hand on your opening!”

Mine definitely is. However it seems to be repressed. A stressful event today will leave me in the bathroom all day tomorrow.:dubious:

HAHAHAH! I need that.

I’m prepping for a colonoscopy tomorrow as well, being looked at rather too intimately Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m. I made green and orange jello-- haven’t had those in a while, in fact, not since my last such procedure.

MannyL, if it’s any consolation, I’ve had this done twice before and for me, the prep was the worst part. You mention that it’s a procedure you won’t remember-- what do you mean, will you be sedated? I had it done twice before and was wide awake. I even looked at my innards on a monitor as it was going on.

Sorry to hear what you are going through. Good luck!

I was told that I will be given something beforehand so I can’t drive. I don’t know if it’s something that will make me not remember anything including pain or something that won’t make me feel anything.

My Uncle says I will not be conscious of what they are doing.

That’s cool. Good luck with that, I hope they find out what’s wrong and fix it.

BTW, I’m going to a new doctor, and I see that I have to have someone with me because of the sedation! It’s a relief, because my other tests were routing, just check-ups because of some family history, but this one was because of problems and I am just a bit more nervous.

So I’m trying to take the MoviPrep and I’m behind schedule because it’s making me gag. I will take all 2 liters but it will not be on theschedule they want. Why must this stuff taste so foul?

There are brands with flavoring, but they always say to flavor it with something you dislike. If you don’t, you’ll forever have bad association with that flavor, so it might as well be something you already don’t favor :wink:

I know but the gagging part? I was supposed to have 2 liters down by now I have 10 ounces done

Damn, I had 4 liters to drink. Life is unfair. If you gag, MannyL you just wait a bit until you actually defecate and you can then manage to down some more of the liquid.

I had to down 4 liters of golytely. If there is a next time, I want the kind you had.

Because the Medical Industry hates you.

Hope this helps.

Well I only did 3/4 of the first liter before puking and I was NOT going to do the second one. It appears the liquid diet for the last 24 hrs plus what I was able to drink was enough because he said my colon was fine.

He thinks my IBS is stress induced.

Well, I’m glad that went well, MannyL, mine went well too. Now all you have to do is work on stress management, I guess, though it’s easy to say that. Sometimes in life, one would have to be crazy not to be stressed out.