The prep is of course several laxatives that will make you poop pure water. uck. The The day of the test you are in a gown, (keep in mind I'm in canada, I know our test is the tough one)lay on an X ray table, and they put this...umm, thing-a tube attached to a holey piece of plastic the size of a baby tomato....in your rectum about 2 inches. Be ready for that!(for me that was by far the worst part.) They then pump about a cup of barium (and for me, also, what felt like a gastank full of air) up in there and ask you to move around the table so you can get the barium everywhere. Then the easy part is they take pics of your insides thru X ray and ask you to roll on this side, that side etc. Then they pull out the tube and you spend the next ...6 hours trying to poop but nothing wants to really come out. Oh, and it's white. Don't be freaked out by that!LOL! you'll feel OK by the next morning, but that night I just cuddled on the couch in the fetal position.LOL!!
On the upside, i hear that's mych better than those lucky colonoscopy people.
Of course, here in Canada, they don't even THINK of giving you meds to relax you a bit. They might in the U.S.
Good luck, girl. It's worth a giggle a few days later once you're over the trauma. 
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OK-since it's so fresh in my mind I hope it's not too tempered w/ scary....
