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To: Icebrg who wrote (38)	10/11/2004 11:01:58 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 577

This might have something to do with gut flora, gross but interesting...at least to me. I had do take a few doses of a laxative--Fleet (to prep for a colonoscopy). I don't know if this strips the good bacteria out of your gut, but it seems to be awfully harsh on the system. Anyway, I had a little sore throat a day before I took the laxative, but apparently I was fighting it off okay--I felt fine the next day, and it did not occur to me to put off the procedure. I took the Fleet, and within two hours of that stuff passing through my system, I was down with a fever, temp 101F. Naturally, hoping I would be okay the next morning I didn't take any pain medication for the body aches, whew, that was rough. Still running a fever the next morning, I ended up missing the procedure. Nasty! And now I have to go through the gut bomb again. A healthy intestinal track seems to be awfully important! Of course coming down with the flu and taking the laxative may very well have been coincidental, but one wonders.