17 Horrifying Stages Of Preparing For Your First Colonoscopy

    I'm pooped.

    1. It's the eve of you paying someone to put a camera up your butt and take a look around. Your heart beats quickly as your vision goes dark.

    2. A CAMERA. IN YOUR BUTT.

    3. Strangers are going to look at your butt!

    4. Someone asks if you want to hang out, but you can't make plans because you can't eat or drink anything except this drink your doctor gave you to make you poop.

    5. You try the drink. Actually, it tastes OK.

    6. You quickly realize that this tastes NOT OK BUT THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT YOU HAVE TO KEEP DRINKING IT UNTIL YOU POOP CLEAR.

    7. You thought you could maybe turn this into a quiet night in, but nothing about your intestines is quiet anymore.

    8. You were patient at first. It's been hours. HOURS. And there are still signs of life in your bowels.

    9. THERE IS NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL YOU WILL NEVER POOP CLEAR

    10. This toilet is your home now.

    11. Your new life is all hunger and isolation.

    12. Resignation sets in.

    13. Hours later, when you are finally pooping a clear liquid, you are too dazed to feel happy. Nothing is real anymore.

    14. Hollowed out, you sleep like a stone, probably losing consciousness in a strange position.

    15. The next day, you wake up in a fog of hunger and make your way to the doctor's office, a haunted look in your eye.

    16. When you come to, you are in a drug-induced haze, and you cling to the familiar as your designated person brings you home.

    17. But before the fuzz takes over OH MY GOD YOU ARE ALLOWED TO EAT AGAIN