Attn: Marilyn, re SCD-legal Colonoscopy Prep

[Guest guest]

Further questions about Colonoscopy Prep:

Marilyn, in your write-up, you mentioned that you had to stop eating

zucchini before the colonoscopy. I am planning to make zucchini pasta, using

only the parts of each zucchini that don't contain seeds, which I assume

avoids the seed issue.

I asked the clinic whether I could use smooth nut butter, such as peanut

butter or almond butter, only to be told that these are not allowed. I am

curious whether you were allowed to consume smooth nut butters during the

days before your colonoscopy.

I had planned to bake a small batch of pecan-squash brownies, without

sprinkling pecan pieces on top, but I haven't done so because of the clinic

instructions.

Tonight, I will try to bake an SCD bread using coconut flour, because it is

made from a fruit (coconut) rather than nuts.

I wrote on Friday October 1, 2010:

>

> I have done some more research, and I think that Golytely is SCD legal. I

> have not had a chance to phone the clinic during office hours yet, to

> check

> whether Golytely would be acceptable, and more to the point, whether I can

> get it without an Rx here in Toronto.

I contacted the clinic, and Golytely is acceptable, so I ordered a kit from

my compounding pharmacy. Unfortunately, I forgot to ask whether they could

compound ducosate sodium without all the illegals. When I went to to the

pharmacy on Monday, I learned that this would have been possible, but I had

to have asked last week, as there was not sufficient lead time for the

pharmacy to prepare ducosate sodium capsules by Thursday, the day I need to

start taking them.

So, I bought a box of Dulcolax suppositories, which contain only ducosate

sodium and fat.

>

>>> 4 bottles of Gatorade (lemon-lime or orange - definitely not SCD legal,

>>> contains sugar syrup

Wizop Marilyn L. Alm wrote in BTVC-SCD on September 27,

2010:

>

>>This is supposed to help with the electrolytes. I don't know if Body Bio

>>ships to Canada, or if the shipping and >crossing the border would make it

>>prohibitive, but you could email them.

>> >http://www.bodybio.com/storecategory92.aspx E-lyte is really helpful.

>> >If

>>you cannot get it, you can make your own >electrolyte mixture.

>>http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/knowledge_base/kb/electrolyte_drink.ht\

m

>

> I actually bought E-lyte a few years ago, when Body Bio was able to ship

> products to my doctor's clinic. For some reason, that is no longer

> possible.

> So I think I will use the recipe on the breakingtheviciouscycle website.

>

>>> apple juice (I would use filtered apple cider, but I am also allergic to

>>> apples), ginger ale - not SCD legal unless I make it myself, white grape

>>> juice or white cranberry juice; I will have to search for SCD legal

>>> white

>>> grape juice and SCD legal white cranberry juice

>

>>If you're allergic to apples, I would emphatically not drink apple cider!

>>This process is hard enough without having a major allergy attack!

>>Welch's

>>white grape juice is legal. You can also look for pear juice. None of the

>>Knudsen Just Juice line are clear, unfortunately.

>

>

I wasn't able to find Welch's white grape juice. My husband bought me some

other brand of pear juice and of white grape juice, all marked " not from

concentrate " and " unsweetened " .

>

>>> Gravol (take orally before starting preparation to help avoid nausea &

>>> vomiting)

>

>>http://chealth.canoe.ca/drug_info_details.asp?brand_name_id=1805 has the

>>ingredients of the types of Gravol. Interestingly, it can be given as an

>>IM

>>injection, so you might want to ask about that, since I don't see a tablet

>>that doesn't contain junk.

>

> Or I might just drink ginger tea instead of taking Gravol.

>

>>Good luck! I found the preparation worse than the procedure.

>

>

> - Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

> Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

> Darn Good SCD Cook

> No Human Children

> Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

> Babette the Foundling Beagle

>

>

> Thanks Marilyn. >

> Regards, Ellen

>

>

Thanks again for all of your help.

Regards, Ellen in Toronto, Canada