If you couldn’t eat anything for 24 hours….

after 24h of not eating, you may be surprised how little you can eat. Your stomach will have contracted substantially.

This. In my experience it tends to be that you go from ravenous to full/bloated quite quickly.

This +1.

I fast a few times a year, 2 of them are 25 hours (no drink either, even water! Make sure you’re properly hydrated beforehand if you’re off drink as well).  Anyway, IME it’s exactly what’s said above. A drink is welcome, then some coffee & cake and a light meal such as soup or fish works great.

I’m in the middle of this at the moment. You lot recommending Scotch oats and bloody steak haven’t read the leaflet!

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/health-information/colonoscopy-diet-advice-and-bowel-preparation/2-days-your-colonoscopy

And as for this:

a well stuffed bacon sandwich with lashings of butter

That’s a recipe for loads of colonoscopies in the future, surely…?

Sort yourself out a nice stew, top it off with a slice of puff pastry 😜

Or have a pie

You’ll probably be encouraged to look at the screen seeing what the endoscopist is seeing as the camera is wiggled around your bendy bits.

Ah, that’s what the pipes look like when they’ve been cleaned.

There will be another couple of medicos in the room so while the endoscopist is telling you what they’re seeing the others could be having random chats about…holidays, what’s good in the sales and other random stuff – which goes some way to ‘normalising’ what’s happening.

@binners – did you decide?

FWIW, I’ve had the camera in both ends and the one down is far worse than the one up. Didn’t have sedation or gas+air either. It’s weird but not that bad.

I went home and had a bacon butty after the camera up. With Dylan’s brown sauce FTW

FWIW, I’ve had the camera in both ends and the one down is far worse than the one up

depends on what order they do them in and whether they give it wipe in between.

@binners – did you decide?

@ElShalimo – after all the advice on here and Mrs Binners telling me not to be so bloody stupid I’ve decided I’m going to cook a herb and parmesan crusted cod loin with Jersey royals, about half a cows worth of garlic butter and roasted asparagus with more parmesan, wrapped in parma ham

After an ‘interesting’ picolax-fuled night I now feel like this. I think I did actually see a rusting shopping trolley at one point. Off to hospital shortly. See you on the other side…

bonne chance and don’t forget to smile when they take the photos

🙃

Mrs Binners telling me not to be so bloody stupid I’ve decided I’m going to cook a herb and parmesan crusted cod loin with Jersey royals, about half a cows worth of garlic butter and roasted asparagus with more parmesan, wrapped in parma ham

Tenner says he pops into Greggs for a sharpener on the way back.

You’re not going to get anyone betting against that 😀

I once did over 72 hours due to acute pancreatitis.

Fore and aft nosebags were of no interest to me!

Goat curry, garlic naan and some pilau rice. MMM

Well I’m still alive, but there a few small bits less of my internal organs than there was at lunchtime

More importantly… FOOD?!!!

When I came round from the anaesthetic I had one thing and one thing only in my head, and  once it’s in my head nothing else is going to cut it. No way was my previously mentioned cod loin going to get a look in. That can wait for tomorrow

I NEEDED BRATWURST!!

So this was tea… two bratties with strong Red Leicester, loads of fried shallots and smothered in Tommy K, on white finger rolls, obvs. Both of which were absolutely inhaled! 😃

Take that colon!!!!!

1 kg of ground beef and 6 fried eggs. Can go 24 hours easy. Do this regularly on the carnivore diet.  Feel great.

I hope it was nothing on screen that subliminally triggered your craving for something looking like an overpacked kebab.

Jesus Christ I thought that was roadkill

Looks suspiciously like margarine on those buns, I expected better, like lashings of butter!

Looks suspiciously like margarine on those buns

Margarine on the buns is part of the preparation for the scope

Looks suspiciously like margarine on those buns, I expected better, like lashings of butter!

How very dare you?!! We don’t have that muck in this house!! We’re not savages! Strictly Lurpak only 😃

Phew! That’s a relief to know Binners 😁

Denby plates?

They are indeed. Simple and classic

Its almost insulting to besmirch them with the filth I generally eat off them 😃

I’m not angry, I’m disappointed. And angry…

Jesus Christ I thought that was roadkill

I thought the dog needed worming 🪱

Your thoughts on Bratwurst for breakfast?

I’ve had a couple of pieces of ardennes pate on thick, buttered toast so far, but I’m going to take some filling up today

Recovery Pie 🙂

Take that colon!!!!!

I’d heard they had a new album out

Take that colon!!!!!
I’d heard they had a new album out

Its a reworking of their greatest hits

How deep is your love? (about elbow deep)

Get ready for it (this is going to take a lot of Marg)

Hold up a light (but don’t strike a match)

Patients

Back(side) for good

Could it be Polyp?

Take that colon!!!!!

I’d heard they had a new album out

“Slide it in” by Whitesnake seems (in)appropriate.

Tunnel of Love 😁

I once did over 72 hours due to acute pancreatitis.

Same here, but I was 5 days with no food, just 10ml of water and hour 😫

At the end of it the thing I craved most was just flavour and a small glass of fresh orange was just the job!

10ml of water and hour

100ml an hour

🙄