Hi All, I'm getting banded on 8/13 (yeahhhhhh!) and have a quick question. How the heck do you do the prep for a colonoscopy once banded. I mean, you have to drink so much in such a small amount of time. I remember having to guzzle glass after glass of liquid. Has anyone here dealt with that one yet. I mean, we all have to go through it, just how?

Ann

OMG! Don't even want to think about it!!! I don't know what that would be like or how we'll do it...

yes i did itbefore i wsbanded foundi had colon cancer onthe day i was to have my band april15110 ihad cancer surgery july 9 i finally hadtheband ofthis year i was almost stage 2

ucanms me if u want to talk about it

You can still drink after you are banded. So long as you remember to breath in-between swallows you will be fine. I had to drink 2 glasses of horrible licorice flavoured goo before having a CT scan and that was just minutes after having a partial unfill under flouro as I had a major blockage. It tasted gross but it was easy enough to drink.

I was wondering the same thing. My doctor wants me to have a colonoscopy but the directions say a gallon of (nasty) liquid in a very short period of time - like 30-45 minutes. There is NO WAY. I take almost 15 minutes to drink a bottle of Water. So, for now, I have put the colonoscopy on the back burner - yes, I know that is a bad thing to do, but I am not going to have all the Fluid taken out of my band for a test. It took a year to get to this point. I can't wait to see if anyone had this test and was able to drink all that stuff.

Melinda in Florida