Educate Yourself About Your Medical Condition - Master Thread

[ExGingi]

I have been on the NYC subway and my colon is way cleaner!

If you'd wash NYC subway cars with whatever you used to prep for the colonoscopy, they'd be cleaner (not to mention empty).

[Yehuda57]

You guys need to get out more. 

I wouldn't be averse to watching surgery, just not my own

[CountValentine]

I wouldn't be averse to watching surgery, just not my own

Simple ones are fun. When I had a hip replacement they had a video online. Once I seen the hammer and saw that was it for me.

[Yikes2179]

+1000000

I find watching these kinds of videos extremely nauseating.


And how can the official DDF salad correspondent adhere to a no salad diet for a day?

I was awake for the last minute or two of mine and I didn't really mind but that may be due to still being under the effects of the sedation even if not being actually asleep

[biobook]

I've had 3 colonoscopies, and followed basically none of this advice. I live in a one bathroom apt, started prep at work, didn't change my diet in the slightest, and I'm a firm NOPE on watching this imax.

People are different, in sensitivity to the taste, in effect of the prep on the digestive tract, and so on.  What worked for me wouldn't necessarily help everyone, just something to consider. 
The change in diet for a day or two before is not required, but it may make the procedure a bit easier by decreasing the amount of feces that need to be eliminated, so you reach the all-liquid phase sooner. 

+1000000

I find watching these kinds of videos extremely nauseating.

After reading so much biology with cartoon-like illustrations of the digestive tract, it was thrilling to see it for real, in the flesh.

And how can the official DDF salad correspondent adhere to a no salad diet for a day?

It was weird.  I think I had eggs, fish, chicken and potato without the skin.

And how can the official DDF aficionado of pareve-cholent-with-kishke be nauseated by the sight of a squeaky clean kishke?

[Lurker]

And how can the official DDF aficionado of pareve-cholent-with-kishke be nauseated by the sight of a squeaky clean kishke?

He's a fan of fake cholent and fake kishke. The real stuff... not so much.

[Euclid]

And how can the official DDF aficionado of pareve-cholent-with-kishke be nauseated by the sight of a squeaky clean kishke?

ALOL

[ExGingi]

He's a fan of fake cholent and fake kishke. The real stuff... not so much.

Actually a big fan of real kishke, but I don't recall ever seeing it in the US.

[gozalim]

We finally found the thread for @CountValentine s signature

[elimmm]

colloidal silver

FDA says unsafe
can you expound...

[Yehuda57]

And how can the official DDF salad correspondent adhere to a no salad diet for a day?

I think you'll find my position as salad correspondent revolves around me not having eaten a/the salad

[elihak7]

FDA says unsafe
can you expound...

Source?

[Joe4007]

Every doctor gives their patient a list of pointers, so do follow those, which may relate to the doctor's preferred method, or time of day, or previous patients' experiences, etc.

Here are some tips I remember that worked for me:

Eat low-fiber foods for a day before the prep (no salads, fruits, whole grains) so that you'll have fewer solids to pass.

My doctor actually recommends a low-fiber diet for 5 days before the procedure.

[CountValentine]

My doctor actually recommends a low-fiber diet for 5 days before the procedure.

I wonder why the big discrepancies over this. I wonder if it is old school vs new school? @biobook

[biobook]

I wonder why the big discrepancies over this. I wonder if it is old school vs new school? @biobook

The suggestion for the low-fiber diet didn't come from my doctor.  In fact, of the tips I posted, the only one he gave me was to drink the magnesium citrate over a 2 hr period.  The rest I gleaned from lots of googling, and selected the ideas that made sense to me.

I also wondered about the various cleansing methods, so looked in the scientific literature to see what was recommended.  (Just because I was curious, and not out of mistrust of the doctor, whose advice I was following anyway.) I did find one review that basically concluded that they all work well enough, so there hasn't been a lot of research to compare them and they couldn't conclude that one method is always best at cleansing, or best tolerated by patients.  If someone had a problem with one method, it would be recommended to use a different one the next time.  It's more of an art than a science.

[AsherO]

That they don't work?

Perhaps he means that people question antibiotics as a treatment specifically for PANDAS

[CountValentine]

Perhaps he means that people question antibiotics as a treatment specifically for PANDAS

Ok, that would make sense.

[elihak7]

Talking about PANDAS, anyone have any helpful suggestions besides long term antibiotics that don’t really help?

Tia

[etech0]

Talking about PANDAS, anyone have any helpful suggestions besides long term antibiotics that don’t really help?

Tia

You can search for 'pandas' on https://www.imamother.com/ to read a lot of varied opinions and experiences