OK folks... give me all of your colonoscopy tips and tricks

The key thing is to be using the easiest "cleansing" medicine. It's a prescription they give you to take the night before. I used SUPREP. It's 6 oz of fluid you dilute with 10 oz water and consume over a period of 15 min, followed by 32 more oz of clear fluid over the next 45 min - for that I used gatorade. There are two of these 15 min / 45 min doses for suprep, and I kept sipping gatorade afterwards.

Anyway that amounts to 48 oz of fluid spread over an hour (done twice), which is kind of a lot, but other preps involve up to 64 oz of fluid in an hour (done twice). The suprep tastes unpleasant, but I always followed it with a gatorade chaser. And I didn't quite make my 48 oz in 1 hour deadline, but I continued drinking gatorade.

I once tried mixing the suprep fluid with cranberry juice but it was a mistake. the fluid will ruin the taste of whatever you mix it with.

You will be visiting the toilet repeatedly. Don't try to hold back. The prep fluid dehydrates you, and gatorade or similar is the best thing I know for getting a little sugar and minerals back into your system. But it will run thru you fast.

I've had two colonoscopies, and I try to schedule them first thing in the morning so that I'm doing my prep later at night and not disturbing or being disturbed by family members. When I got there in the morning I was a little chilly and a little weak, but they put me under warmed blankets with an IV drip to get blood sugar & minerals back up.