… 3 days earlier than

A lady, Meg, round age 45 whose race is ambiguous, is receiving a RX on the pharmacy

Pharmacist: So, you’re having a colonoscopy? Good for you. Right here’s your drugs for the prep. Make sure to learn the directions rigorously.

Meg: I’ve heard it may be tough! Is there something I can do to make it simpler?

Pharmacist: Yeah, you’ll wish to keep near the lavatory. However you possibly can eat a low-fiber food plan just a few days earlier than to make it slightly simpler.

The day earlier than your process, stick with a transparent liquid food plan.

(Pull out) Keep away from

Entire grains

Nuts & Seeds

Dried fruit

Uncooked fruit

Greens

… the day earlier than

Studying the again of the field

Then present her taking the tablets and consuming

PULLOUT:

Bowel prep kits may be liquid, tables, tablets or powder

Meg … Thought bubble: So, I’ve to take these tablets with a full glass of water till I end them.

Convey that Meg is doing issues round her home — make certain her ambiguous-gendered accomplice and youngsters make appearances within the background — as she waits for the prep to kick in

Thought bubble: Hmmm … the prep isn’t working.

Thought bubble: I actually thought I’d be feeling it by now.

Present a stunned face after which present Meg working to and from the lavatory just a few occasions, possibly with Tazmanian satan strains throughout her

Oh! Now it’s working!

Yup, it’s working!

The 2 youngsters heads and a canine’s head pop in to the body as they watch Meg run to the lavatory.

It have to be lastly working!

PULLOUT:

Have these useful:

Child or grownup wipes with aloe & vitamin E

Diaper cream

Petroleum jelly

… the day of

Meg enters the power together with her accomplice.

Receptionist: Are you prepared for the large day? Do you’ve got somebody right here to drive you residence?

Meg: Sure, my accomplice’s going to stick with me.

Fast sequence to indicate her placing on a medical robe, after which in an OR with an enormous display screen subsequent to her with a medical staff round her, she needs to be mendacity on her left aspect.

Present exterior monitor that the physician will likely be taking a look at

Nurse: Right here, you go. C hange into this robe. All the pieces comes off! Don’t fear, it sounds worse than it’s. You received’t really feel a factor, and it’ll be over earlier than it.

Physician says: We’re simply going to make you snug, offer you a sedative and use a small digital camera to try your colon. We’ll be checking for polyps and another abnormalities.

Meg is on the desk, mendacity on her left aspect, with an anesthesiologist close by

Anesthesiologist: Rely backward from 100.

Meg wakes up and sees her accomplice within the chair subsequent to her in a restoration room (or stall)

Meg: When are they doing the process?

Accomplice: You’re completed, it’s performed!

Meg: It’s performed? All that worrying for nothing?

Physician walks in

Physician: The lead-up is unquestionably worse than the process. And I’ve bought your outcomes proper right here. All the pieces regarded good, and also you don’t have to go to me once more for 10 years.

No butts about it — screening is simple!

Screening Pointers

Danger Elements Embrace

All adults needs to be screened for colon most cancers often beginning at age 45.

Adults with elevated threat elements might must be screened earlier. Ask your healthcare supplier what’s good for you.

Household historical past of colorectal most cancers

Inflammatory bowel illness

Sure genetic syndromes, together with Lynch syndrome

Tobacco & alcohol use

Obese and weight problems

A low-fiber, high-fat food plan

Ashkenazi Jewish heritage

Observe-Up Pointers

After your take a look at is over, your HCP will let you know when to get screened once more.

In case you have polyps, comply with up might be anyplace from one month to 10 years.

For extra data, please go to HealthyWomen.org

This useful resource was created with assist from Merck.