Clear liquids/blood sugar regulation
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The tl;dr was that I had a failed colonscopy in Feb. I have problems with blood sugar regulation (not diabetic, but it’s bad). The lack of nutrition and high sugar consumption left me in terrible mental state for a week. Now they’re talking 3 days of clear liquids and a 2 day prep. I cannot do this without a plan for nutritional support. I will end up in the psych ward instead of getting a colonscopy. Any suggestions how to regulate blood sugar?
The deets:
Post (failed) colonoscopy back in Feb was awful. I followed every single direction but my prep was not sufficient. I literally lost my shit on the way home from the hospital and was hideously disregulated in body and brain for a week. I had a colonscopy about 8-9 years ago and it was not like this, but bodies change.
I am extremely sensitive to blood sugar swings - I could literally go from fine to suicidal ideation in 15 minutes when I needed to eat. A lot of sugar really screws me up physically and emotionally. It has been better since Ozempic, but I still have to mind what I‘m eating when. I was off the Oz, so you can imagine how well having nothing but sugar and salt for 36 hours went. Then the prep kept me up most of the night. I have a mood disorder and cannot do all nighters any more. I was awful afterward - literally screaming, crying, wanting to hurl myself into a wall out of rage. I have a serious mood disorder and it has never made me feel that out of control. The entire next week was fighting to re-regulate my nervous system.
I felt very dismissed when I raised the blood sugar crash/lack of sleep issues with the prep nurse and then my experience was awful. Everyone was very nice but there’s still a feeling that it wasted so much of my and my husband’s time and nobody even cared. They first reschedule date from Feb 8 was May 5, and I made Feb appointment in November.
I scheduled the procedure for later in the day so I should be able to get some sleep. They mentioned a 2 day prep (meaning 2-3 day of clear liquids) and miralax for a week before but nobody has called me yet. I am going to ask for the diabetic protocol in the hopes that it will give me better blood sugar regulation but does anyone have any other suggestions?
If you had asked me the day after, I would have told you I would take my chances with colon cancer rather than feel I did afterward again.
Again, I had a colonscopy before and I didn’t have anxieties/concern with the idea of the procedure. I had my gallbladder out on an emergent basis last summer. I wasn’t without food as long and I slept tons.