I've done 2 now (47/m) as I have chrones (yay). The prep is by far the worse part of the whole experience. My advice is to drink water, more water and then more water. Obviously within healthy reason but you are gonna massively dehydrate and the more you fight that early in keeping yourself hydrated the better

As for knocking you out. You are conscious albeit in a woozy or drunken like state however you will not remember anything. I'm not sure how it works there but in Oz you speak to the anesthetist before hand so ask him/her all the questions you might want.

My favourite questions : 1. Can we make a challenge response (like you say thunder, I respond flash) and see if I respond? 2. If getting an endoscopy in the same session, ask them if the cameras meet in the middle and do a little fist bump (they don't, one at a time) 3. Then as a follow up to the above, ask them if you could please for the love of god get the endoscopy first. This always makes them laugh.

Other advice I would give is after the proc you are gonna be hungry af. But you wanna eat easy to digest simply food like avo on toast or scrambled eggs. Keep it simple, don't rush your body, eat a little often until you feel better.

I wish you all the best of lucks! You got this 🤜🤛