Re: Dr. McCollister:

Peter wrote:

Totally agree with Howard. I had fleets phospho soda once and it totally tore me up (bleeding and raw) and there was no way I could do it all over again the next morning like suggested. My last gastro told me it was banned from the market but it sounds like some docs still use it. I asked for saline solution for my last colonoscopy from a surgeon, and it was much milder and I didn't get raw (if you can stand drinking all that salt water without vomiting. The colyte or half-lytley is also better than the phospho soda. I'd say the saline solution is the least damaging for me (but I go forty times to the water closet and it wipes me out no matter what I use). Don't like colonoscopy preps :-) . I would never take phospho soda again.

Pete




Don't know where you're posting from, but in Brooklyn phospho soda is OTC. Sorry you had a bad experience--my brother has had 2 colonoscopies, one with Go lytely and once with phosphosoda, and he found the latter much less unpleasant. Perhaps the Half lytely is easier to take. As far as efficacy, my gastroenterologist couldn't resist sitting me down afterwards and showing me his "beautiful" pictures of my bowel. I'm no expert, but it looked pretty clean to me.
I don't think anyone LIKES colonoscopy preps, but mine was certainly no worse than I expected. Wouldn't want to discourage anyone having it done. I'll probably ask my doc about the narrow band imaging scopes Howard spoke of.
The article in the NYT (I assume the original paper in JAMA as well) said that the findings of carcinoma apparently arising in flat or depressed lesions put into further question the usefulness of the so-called "virtual colonoscopies"--but frankly they really didn't sound like a good idea to me in the first place.

Steve

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