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[–] 39 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Horror story:

Shaved mine in prep for my first colonoscopy. I know, they see some nasty shit, don't know why I cared. Took TWO bottles of the lemon flavored ass blaster juice.

Ended up holding my ass cheeks apart and screaming at my ex-wife, "Get the neighbor! GET THE NEIGHBOR!" Said neighbor was a nurse but I was in such agony I couldn't think of her name.

Halfway down my ass cheeks, and all the way down from there, my flesh looked sandpapered, sunburned. Pain doesn't make me cry, but my eyes were plenty blurry that night.

And I still had to shit more lemon juice. Try not to think on this story.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    What the fuck is "lemon flavored ass blaster juice"??

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_citrate

    In solution with water it tastes somewhere between the worlds worst flattest sprite and a sweet lemon.

    Edit: I'd marked Sodium Citrate, which is a similar compound but is used for different reasons. Sodium Citrate is an anti-coagulant. If you've ever donated blood plasma, its that weird sterile taste you get in the back of your neck when they feed the blood solids back in with saline. It is also used in nacho cheese.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Why would you drink two bottles of that before a colonoscopy?!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't tell if you're joking, but you have to. The doctor prescribes it, and it cleans everything out of your system. By the end, you're just crapping out the lemon drink itself and you're squeaky clean for the camera

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Your colon is like a road:

    Would you rather drive down a smooth, well maintained, Clean road or a muddy mess that's never seen a cleanup crew?

    You don't technically have to, but I think whoever is driving the colonoscope might refuse to work in those conditions.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's not about the driver experience, it's about the road inspection. If the patient has a pre-cancerous polyp the inspector sees, they will cut it out, problem averted. If the patient has a pre-cancerous polyp obscured by stool, it gets missed and then in a few years turns to cancer. And survival rates for colon cancer are depressingly low.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Before a colonoscopy, you typically have to drink something called "prep" to clean out your system. For the better part of a day before the procedure, you drink nothing but this liquid that is meant to clean out your intestines, and it makes you shit your guts out until it's nothing but the clear liquid. It's usually lemon or pineapple flavored, and it tastes awful.

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