Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...*
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
How are you supposed to know the cleanliness of your colon?
So my partner literally had a colonoscopy this week.
I don’t know how to do spoiler tags and they often don’t work on my app anyway so WARNING: GROSS.
You drink a special laxative and chew these special pills to empty everything out and, critically, you know when you’re clean when your poop comes out identical to pee. Translucent yellow liquid. The instructions have a color chart and everything.
My elderly neighbor doesn’t exactly follow rules. She had a colonoscopy earlier this year. They sent her home because she “wasn’t clean.” She had to repeat the process later, and I can’t imagine she was a Sunny Country Road, but they at least completed the exam that time. I am still mortified for her, my first colonoscopy was last year, I spent a full day on the toilet prepping. Nearly slept in the bathtub.
The graphic is urging a patient to actually do the required prep. The prep cleans you out.
You dont need to know yourself, just follow the instructions the doctor gives you before the procedure. Usually fasting, maybe a rinse.
Hang them on the fence inside out and hose them down with a garden hose.
I mean, it’s not the first option I’d go with but it is certainly one of the ideas I’ve ever heard
how do I know if I do a good job or not though? Do I just gotta trust that I followed the instructions correctly?
I’m just sayin give me a lil camera so I can check.
Oh… you will know, because you will only be shitting clear liquid, every 30-90 minutes half way through the protocol.
Sometimes they send entirely inadequate instructions you know aren’t going to work and then you have to go more than once. That’s a pain in the ass.
To be fair, even going one time will be a pain the ass. Returning a second time will be another pain in the ass.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just get a bag of that road de-icing salt