WARNING: Diabetes & Colonoscopy
Had my first colonscopy recently.
With sedation, was a piece of cake.
BUT ....
The regimen prescribed to cleanse the colon prior to the procedure bears close watching.
255 gr. of Miralax mixed in 64 oz. Gatorade Rain ....
Drink 8 oz. every 15 min. until all gone.
BUT ... WAIT ...
Gatorade Rain contains 14 grams of sugar per 8 oz.
I could not believe a doctors office had prescribed this for me, nor that they were prescribing this for anyone!
Needless to say I was mortified.
No way was I going to drink this stuff.
8 oz. every 15 min. meant 64 oz. would be ingested in 2 hours.
That would be 112 grams of sugar ingested really fast.
Sh*t, ingesting that much sugar in such a short amount of time!!!! ... I'd be dead before they ever got to a colonoscopy!
Called the office, pointed this out ...and there was silence on the other end of the phone. That's when I knew I had their attention. Unbelieavably, NO ONE in the office had EVER considered the sugar content in Gatorade Rain (1st ingredient: water; 2nd ingredient: high fructose syrup)
I ended up using clear, flavored water instead of the Gatorade and it worked just fine.
Amazing.
Must read everything and ask questions.
BTW, my procedure was fine. Went off with no trouble at all. Sedation works wonders. Don't need another for 10 years. Yeeeeehhhhh !!!
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With sedation, was a piece of cake.
BUT ....
The regimen prescribed to cleanse the colon prior to the procedure bears close watching.
255 gr. of Miralax mixed in 64 oz. Gatorade Rain ....
Drink 8 oz. every 15 min. until all gone.
BUT ... WAIT ...
Gatorade Rain contains 14 grams of sugar per 8 oz.
I could not believe a doctors office had prescribed this for me, nor that they were prescribing this for anyone!
Needless to say I was mortified.
No way was I going to drink this stuff.
8 oz. every 15 min. meant 64 oz. would be ingested in 2 hours.
That would be 112 grams of sugar ingested really fast.
Sh*t, ingesting that much sugar in such a short amount of time!!!! ... I'd be dead before they ever got to a colonoscopy!
Called the office, pointed this out ...and there was silence on the other end of the phone. That's when I knew I had their attention. Unbelieavably, NO ONE in the office had EVER considered the sugar content in Gatorade Rain (1st ingredient: water; 2nd ingredient: high fructose syrup)
I ended up using clear, flavored water instead of the Gatorade and it worked just fine.
Amazing.
Must read everything and ask questions.
BTW, my procedure was fine. Went off with no trouble at all. Sedation works wonders. Don't need another for 10 years. Yeeeeehhhhh !!!
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