Colonoscopy and birth control

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By 7pm you might be done with your prep.... What did your GI say about taking your regular meds the night before/the morning of?

[bcv513]

You know, this never even occured to me during the prep, and I just took it normally. BUT as soon as I got home from the colonoscopy I noticed I was bleeding. Of course, I panicked and called the doctor thinking they had cut something. She was nervous at first and then asked if I was on the pill. When I said yes, she said it had probably been flushed from my system and it was because of that. Sure enough, it was gone the next day. I wish they had warned me about that before! So I would take it as scheduled but don't be shocked if that happens. And use a back up method

[OrangePixyStix]

I was told to take my regular medication as normal, it was just food that was off limits.

I'm sure it's fine to take 2 the next day if you are concerned, but I didn't have any issues taking my BC.

[OrangePixyStix]

Is this your first one? It's good that it's first thing in the morning, so you don't have to go so long avoiding your hunger pains after you wake up. I do suggest holding in your morning pee as long as possible until you get there... as a woman they make you take a pregnancy test before the scope no matter what (even if you assure them you are NOT pregnant!), and I wasn't warned my first time and was so dehydrated they had to give me a fluid IV to even get me to give enough urine for the test. The second time, I made sure to hold in that initial morning pee until I got there and just did it the second I signed in, haha!


Yeah, I wasn't sure if all the fluid coming out affected the ability of the pill to work, I just took it anyway.

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I had to stop drinking water four hrs prior to my arrival time (5 hours before my procedure).

I did not have to take a pg test.

[OrangePixyStix]

Apr 19, 2013 6:12:55 GMT -5 tacom said:

I had to stop drinking water four hrs prior to my arrival time (5 hours before my procedure).

I did not have to take a pg test.

Geeze, you were lucky! 

Yeah, I was not supposed to have anything 4 hours before the procedure, not even a sip of water.   That's why I was so dehydrated and had to take an IV to pee the first time they sprung that test on me, since they wouldn't let me drink anything.     I really assumed all women had to do that, but it would have been nice if they had let me go without it.    Both times they tested me, but at least I knew the second time around that it was going to happen.

[OrangePixyStix]

Apr 19, 2013 7:59:56 GMT -5 chilerellanos said:

I didn't even think about my BC pill and took it like normal. I also ended up pregnant, so make sure you do backup!

Thanks, I will totally double-up next time even if I took it already, just in case!    

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yikes. I never even thought about the pill and colonoscopies. I'm so glad this came up here. we use condoms and withdrawal now, but I suspect my GYN will recommend BC b/c we found out I get ovarian cysts when I was in the hospital. great to know for future scopes - I could not handle an oops pregnancy.