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Do I Need To Take The Tablet And Drink Trilyte For Colonoscopy?
I am having a colonoscopy on Thursday and I have instructions from the doctor s nurse on a typed sheet, it says step 1 - take one 10 mg bisacodyl tablet step two mix Trilyte Lemon-Lime and mix in bottle. That I only have to drink 1/2 of Trilyte prep. My question is do I need to take the tablet and drink the Trilyte or just one?
Wed, 4 Jun 2014
You need to do both. The colon needs to be cleaned out really well to have an accurate colonoscopy. These medicines will do that. The pre-colonoscopy prep is actually much more uncomfortable that the colonoscopy itself!
Hope this answers your query. If you have more questions, I would be happy to answer them.
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