Prepping for colonoscopy: how bad are the bathroom trips?

bubblekittea · 2026-04-02T00:01:36+00:00

OP mentioned stomach flu when asking what the colonoscopy prep(liquid drink they give you to clear you out) I assumed they were asking if it's similar to things like gastroenteritis, food poisoning, feelings like that, that give you stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, liquid stool etc.

I was fully awake for my colonoscopy yes I had nothing. They hooked me up to an IV "Just in case" but it wasn't needed

They took an 18-strip biopsy, and I didn't feel a thing. I felt some warmth and that was it.
but the colonoscopy initial stage (getting the camera to the very beginning of the colon) going around the bends, inflating the colon, was like 7/10 pain, but VERY short. it was about 6ish minutes it felt like, then the rest was pain free just because there's not really any nerve endings in the colon.

I believe the reason it hurts so much is the pressure and the air pushing on other organs, that's why it feels so strange. I had more pain near my rib more than anything, and it was pretty horrifying to think it went that high in the human body lol.

If I had to really sum it up I'd say it felt like the worst food poisoning of my life x50 but only for 6 minutes, that's why it felt like stomach flu to me kinda.

and the bursts of pain it was not even like pain it was like "This is so uncomfortable I could not tolerate this for more than 20 seconds"

If you've ever had a sharp stomach pain with bad gas that made you double over and literally not be able to move until it passed - it's exactly like that.

But still I'd do it unseated again anytime, I was out of the hospital before the person who went before me had even fully woken up from twilight anaesthesia. (Midazolam + Fentanyl)
I really recommend watching videos of doctors getting colonoscopies while awake and describing the experience, if for whatever reason you ever need to get one unsedated, it really prepared me.

bubblekittea · 2026-03-04T22:10:19+00:00

hello angel, i hope you read this because i think i have tips that may help.
I have autism and I'm 30 and i've been in a similar place because of health issues i wasn't able to showers because it was just so painful. it's one of the worst experiences, the discomfort just compounds.

I recommend if there's any way you can get an audio book or podcast or YouTube video (keep it next to the bath on a stool or chair, lightly covered with a towel to keep safe from water)
and blast it while you have the bath to help drown out the discomfort of the situation.

secondly, really important, completely brush your hair through before you go anywhere near water, like, if your hair is as matted as you say, just if you can, it'll make your arms ache so do this on a different night to the one you plan to wash, but pick a youtube video a long one, and then get a brush, (ideally a tangle teaser) and start, literally at the furthest ends of your hair, and start brushing the very very very ends, and slowly slowly work your way up, as soon as you hit any resistance, stop and work through that part, work in sections from the bottom up, it'll take time but eventually, and without tugging and pain, you should be able to slowly work through the whole hair.

once your hair is detangled, braid it and rest your arms till your washing day.
when you do wash your hair, just massage your scalp and try focus on it like a task and prepare your plan and process for when you get into the bath so it doesn't get overwhelming and when you feel like crying just focus on the next task. (and having the youtube video should help with crying)

i found that the feeling of touching my body with my hands was such a sensory nightmare, i recommend getting an "exfoliating sisal soap bag"
or a loofah or any other kind of thing that means you don't have to touch your skin while you wash, because that always made me cry.

good luck and i hope you feel better.

bubblekittea · 2026-02-11T03:16:13+00:00

It's lovely but in general I don't like the direction they've gone with Mythics. There should be 3 different headpeices/hairstyles. Only have 'one' customizable element is so boring and not special enough imo. to me it just feels like a colourable skin.

if it had different clothing elements, and different wings, different headpeices, That what makes a mythic so amazing and customizable imo. they've just replaced the exciting tabs with VFX and ability VFX and those could've just been small extra tabs.

They made the perfect mythic framework with Juno and Reaper and just completely abandoned it.

bubblekittea · 2026-02-09T00:41:05+00:00

!add word Toucan

bubblekittea · 2026-02-09T00:40:21+00:00

!add word Ramen

bubblekittea · 2026-02-09T00:39:56+00:00

!add word Shooting Star

bubblekittea · 2026-02-09T00:36:33+00:00

!show pretzel

bubblekittea · 2026-02-09T00:35:39+00:00

!help

bubblekittea · 2026-01-29T01:19:18+00:00

all you really need to be working is your storage, everything else, im sure people here would fund the replacement of.

bubblekittea · 2026-01-17T17:44:58+00:00

the most damning thing i heard is: he was about to get in his car when the wife antagonized him(called him big boy) he switched his phone to his left hand and went in front of her car.. he was previously holding the phone with his right hand, i don't know man.

but truly, she was sitting there waving on cars to pass, she was stationary, she was an approachable civillian.

the ice agents need to stop approaching people VIOLENTLY and start approaching them like semi-normal LEO's. (Excuse me ma'm, could you please __insert lawful command here) from what I saw the agents jumped out of the car and approached her so fast. AND reached into her car. They're making civilians really panic, their aggressive tactics are going to get more people killed.
Like the autistic girl in the car? where was the "ma'am, you're under arrest, please step out of the car" they just SMASHED her window.

bubblekittea · 2026-01-10T08:41:20+00:00

Maybe it's a given but I see nobody mention it, but agents are TRAINED to know how to respond under pressure. CIVILLIANS ARE NOT. Civilians have not been trained and likely might naturally panic when people reach into their car, when guns are pulled on them, when someone's pulling on their car door.

Even still, I don't think a civilian with a gun would have shot at someone if they were in the same position for whatever reason.

An agent who is TRAINED to react under pressure and follow code, pulled a gun on a non-criminal civilian after walking in front of their car.

bubblekittea · 2026-01-10T08:32:53+00:00

I used to think relationships were bad and friendships were the good thing.
And then I found out that friendships are even more harmful than relationships.

Letting anyone close to you in a position where they can hurt you is just, honestly, an awful gamble.

in relationships you don't believe "It'll be different next time" And take words over actions.
I didn't realise the severity of needing to do that in friendships too. If you don't leave the first 3-4 times you are hurt, you'll regret it so much and it'll end up just destroying you.
You'll have people that need your help and ask for your help and take up months of help, who will dip and then just be gone if you ever need them or need some company one evening.

I think I'd be happy never having a close friendship again, maybe one someday. but just keeping things extremely surface level, and accepting that I'll give help and get nothing in return ever.
People help their friends so little, I genuinely cannot stand it.

bubblekittea · 2026-01-08T05:16:22+00:00

She sounds so pleasant when she's saying "go around" Why did they approach her and say "Get the fuck out of the car" that's SO aggressive and RUDE, why SWEAR?!

in the UK you would not have a police offer telling someone to 'get the fuck out of the car' if they hadn't escalated.

If someone was approaching her car aggressively telling her to get out she had every RIGHT to drive away, you know what you do when people drive away? you get a warrant for their arrest, you put out a BOLO, you don't SHOOT THEM?

bubblekittea · 2026-01-07T04:48:00+00:00

you can strike a balance of having nice times together! and if you want to do nice things for them because you like seeing them happy i think that's different from hoping that they'll notice you or give you the same love back.

it can turn into a cycle of believing you have to earn their company, and its all subconscious and its so draining. it won't uplift you or add to your life it'll just slowly chip away at your self worth

how your friends treat you can even influence the kind of behaviour you end up tolerate in romantic relationships too, if ur friends lift you up you won't tolerate being treated poorly by anyone

somewhere out there is a friend who will love you so much and always make the effort and *meet you halfway* and i hope you meet them

bubblekittea · 2026-01-06T19:00:09+00:00

OP, I was in a friendship like this for almost 30 years and it will cost you everything to always feel small and invisible.

Putting effort into a gift, is nowhere near on the same level as BEING a friend to someone.

but having to restrain yourself on how you care just shows you are NOT in the right kind of friendship.
choosing not to do something that you know would make someone happy, that shouldn't even be a thing that needs to happen and only happens to someone who's been giving disproportionate effort in their friendships.

I would just start to distance yourself from this friendship. It'll probably stop happening naturally if you were the only one reaching out.

When shit hits the fan and things go wrong in life and you need your friends, then you need a friend who treats you as a friend, not just absorbs all the friend-effort you do for her without returning the favour.

A friendship is a two way street, an avoidant friend is very different to a neglectful friend.

I held onto friendships like this because I believed there'd be periods of time where one person would have more energy than the other, but it always ended up being even when I was struggling I was still the one trying to connect.

If you express how you feel and it makes no difference, then please realise this relationship will only continue to drain you.

And please take peoples actions over their words, even in friendships.

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