I always though the picolax threads were funny, but I'm not laughing now 🙁
I'm living in Switzerland at the moment as my first experience of their health service is a colonoscopy the day before my birthday. As an added treat, I need to take my first picolax today with a cocktail of other " stool softerners "
So, here it is. Countdown will start from 2 today. Wish me luck.
I'm at home all day and the iPad is charged for the extended toilet time.
What the worse that could happen .........
To be continued.
Its not fun. I was given the alternative, Kleen Prep, which tasted vaguely like an isotonic sports drink.
So much so that most isotonic drinks now give me the boak.
Wet wipes are your friend btw. Oh, and best of luck with the results....
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You see this trumpet...
That's going to be you, that is.
An afternoon watching the world fall out of your bottom.
Have fun.
As an alternative to Picolax, from experience this weekend I can recommend the in-flight meals on Air China.
You see this trumpet...
I am now having to explain to the people in the office why I am laughing.
[i]You see this trumpet...[/i]
I'd try and avoid a trombone for the duration.
You'll be reet.
Actually [i]drinking [/i]the Kleen Prep (~Picolax) was the worse bit. 😀
I have to take one today and tomorrow. Is that what you guys did ?
The instructions are in French and the gcse tricolour didn't cover this 🙂
[i]I have to take one today and tomorrow. Is that what you guys did ? [/i]
It's both at the same time, surely?
the iPad is charged for the extended toilet time.
Live streaming?
Wwaswas
I have four other tablets to take and three drinks and a picolax.
Same again tomorrow. I guess they do it differently here.
I've also been on a protein and carb only diet for 5 days - no fruit or veg, any fibre or whole grain.
[i]Wwaswas
I have four other tablets to take and three drinks and a picolax.
Same again tomorrow. I guess they do it differently here.[/i]
sorry, it was a joke I should have added a winky smiley.
[b]*don't take it all at once you'll probably invert*[/b]
Ok, tablets taken and one picolax downed.
Local time 2.30 - the countdown begins.
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Record the results and create your own ringtone (no pun intended)
A few months ago I had the "luxury" of an alternative called Movi-Prep ..
Nothing could Prep me for the 6 hours that followed
Anyway have fun...
Periscope it! The streaming service not the submarine device. And when I say streaming....
One hour in and nothing.
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F9
colonoscopy the day before my birthday
See it as them treating you to your very own Jackson Pollock in the bathroom (hopefully).
White knuckles on the loo roll holder?
Stuck in traffic. On the way home from work? Might explain the absence
yeah, don't worry OP - that's just a fart waiting to get out. No need to get up from the sofa, just let one rip where you are!
May be it has come out at such velocity that he jettisoned himself in to the ceiling and is currently stuck 🙂
Update. It kicked in an hour ago and ... well
If this was powered by gravy, not water..... you get the idea.
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It's not the picolax that's the problem as much as the amount of air they ram up your backside.
You may have got a note saying "don't be embarrassed if you feel the need to pass wind..."
But if you ask the nurse to lift your ankle a few inches while you 'let off', you're greeted with looks of horror.
So you end up trying to get back home, feeling like you've got several kilos of Semtex strapped to your abdomen.
You might think you're finished....... Don't be fooled.
It didn't work that well with me and the Doc said if I ever needed to have the camera treatment again then something stronger might be advisable 😯
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Feel sorry for you and the ozone layer.
As an alternative to Picolax, from experience this weekend I can recommend the in-flight meals on Air China.
Please no, I have just booked with them...
My condolences
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My wife just reminded me that her friends are over for dinner tonight. Should be fun - sorry girls, just need to run out for another shit, won't be a mo.
You should use tomorrows dose to spike their food.
That would be a jolly jape indeed.
Two of the nurses where I used to work had a wind up battle going on, it finished when one spiked the others pint of milk with a whole tube of the laxative they used to help the patients go. He made it from Caterham to Croydon on the bus feeling steadily worse until he could hold it no more and bailed off the bus heading for the nearest shopping centres toilets......
He didn't make it!
It's all gone quiet over there...
It calmed down about two hours ago but now it's crapping of epic proportions.
Guess I'll be wearing pants to bed tonight.
The hospital is about two miles from my house so tomorrow I was going to walk. This raises a few issues.
Could be an iffy journey...
Matt - i think you mean a wiffy journey
Taking Picolax or MoviPrep or equivalent - man up chaps, it's no big deal.
I've had three encounters with MoviPrep and one potassium enema; it's nothing more than a particularly bad case of the squits and it helps the medicos get a clear view of your pipes.
Drink lots of water to rehydrate and enjoy chatting with the staff while they wiggle the camera around your bends - and watch on the screen.
And by 'chatting with the staff' you mean screaming your lungs out and bending the bed rail you were clutching?
That's how mine went at least - much fun! 😯