Colonoscopy

I had RNY Feb of 2005. On Wednesday of next week I am having a colonoscopy and need to do a cleansing the night before. I need to take something called Trilyte flavor packs. Will I be able to take this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
John

 I used Crystal Light for flavoring for my colonoscopy.

Had my RNY in 04 and have had a couple of colonoscopies.  Should not be an issue.  Take as directed, you should be clean as a whistle when done.  Good luck!

Norain

I am having mine next Friday... hate the idea... but I know I need one...
 here are some tips...
http://colonoscopyblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/trilyte-taste-ti ps.html

Thanks God my doc prescribed pills for me... I gag too easily...

I just had mine last week.  My GI doc knows my alimentary tract is short and my stomch is small.  He gave me some stuff called Suprep and it was - well, less awful than GoLytely.  Less volume - 16 oz of crap, followed by 32 oz of water/soda the night before; same thing the morning of.  It works very quickly and isn't acidic coming out.  It's still fairly gross.

I talked them into only having to do 1/2 dose for the next morning dose, because my night before dose worked so well.

And I got another 10 year pass.  Yay.

I just did a conoscopy & egd a few weeks ago.   Good luck!  The 'cleansing' part is the worst of it the procedure was a breeze. 

   oh no
  this is very dangerious problems don't waist the time go to the hospital and then take some medicine for take care.

I took the same stuff.  Nasty but it does the job.  The colonoscopy is not that bad.  When I had mine they found 3 polyps and a garage door opener.

Steve

The prep is the worst part.  Good for you for being pro-active on your health screening.  Ive lost 2 family members from colon cancer.  Good luck John.

I just did this (my 3rd) and used Magnesium citrate (laxative, not pills). It's under $5. The bottle is clear and it's the larger bottle. So, using the same instructions, all clears on day 1, then taking 1st dose at X:00, drinking clears all day. 1/2 the bottle then and 1/2 the bottle 8-10 hours later, continuing clear liquids til the cut off point.

The diff being that the mag cit with water is only like 8 oz and I can glug it down before my taster rejects it. Has to be done twice. The doc who did it was satisfied with the work it did.