What are some causes of small bowel problems?
May 28th, 2009 | 
Author: After having a colonoscopy, the surgeon informed my family that I still had bowel in my small intestines, how in the world could that be after taking 4 dokolax pills with a large glass of water and taking 64 OZ's of Matrix which took over 2 hours, what would cause this?
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Tags: Bowel Problems, colonoscopy, glass of water, large glass, matrix, oz, pills, Small Bowel, small intestines
Pumx - The meaning of your wording is a little unclear. Since a colonoscopy only examines the colon (which is the large intestine only), the colonoscopy does NOT see what's in the small intestine. I suspect the surgeon meant that the bowel or intestinal preparation was not adequately cleansing and did not remove all the feces (stool) from the large intestine, something necessary to allow adequate "seeing" of the inner surfaces of the large intestine ("colon"). Your Dulcolax and Matrix simple did not do an adequate cleansing job. Though quite uncortable, you might need a repeat though perhaps not right away and with a more effective cleansing prep. Sorry about that, but NOT something to worry about.