Reply to "Questions About Endoscopic Balloon Dilation"

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Hi Sadie,

Thanks for your post. They are going slow with me too. My next dilation is October 27. I don't find the prep so bad. I power chug a chilled 10 ounce bottle of Mag Citrate 8 pm the night before the dilation, and then do an enema 2 hours before leaving for the exam, which will be 11 am because Yale wants me there around 1 pm. The Mag Citrate is probably the worst part but it's over with pretty quickly. Because I do it at Yale (actually in the Smilow Cancer Center where, ironically, I was irradiated with radioactive liquid iodine back in 2015 when I treated thyroid cancer) the waiting time can be lengthy. Normally I sit and then lay around for a couple hours before they get to me. They sedate me for it. Hopefully it will work out and they keep that strictured J Pouch inlet as open for safe passage as the Panama Canal, lol.

Yale makes me Covid test for each procedure as well, usually 2 days before.

10/10/2112:04 PM

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