hi karen,
red and green, christmas, hadn't thought of that!
sorry to hear about your procedure, that sounds a lot worse than mine.
that liquid, "evil juice" as dow called it, was hard to swallow, but no bloating or anything. within an hour of drinking it, i started to go and go and go and.....and it just worked really well.
one thing i did that may have helped. my directions from the doctors office said no fiber for a week, no fruits or veggies, etc. i thought, that's nuts! i'll be so backed up, i'll have bigger problems than just needing a colonoscopy. instead i was doing the opposite, eating lots of fiber for a few days before to really clean myself out (truth is i didn't read the directions til a few days before), and then a semi liquid diet for a few days prior. on the day of, the directions said i could eat a light breakfast and even have things like custards, milkshakes for lunch. i decided to do as i did back in 1993 and have nothing but liquids on prep day. i did have egg custard for breakfast, but that's as solid as it got all day. the rest of the day it was orange jello, apricot jello, chicken broth, french onion broth, coconut water with passion fruit juice, pineapple juice, ginger herbal tea, peppermint herbal tea.
sorry you got dehydrated. maybe i didn't because i kept drinking other things in addition to the PEG solution. that may have helped. also they said to finish my liquid dinner by 4 pm, again, that was nuts, i would have ended up in a hypoglycemia comma, so i drank my liquids until pretty late.
so, except for PEG solution being hard to get down after awhile, things went pretty well. think drinking all those liquids helped a lot.
i'll be interested too in what the biopsies tell us.
thanks,
