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Nasty!
GPV
(72,377 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)Per my doctor's orders, I'm drinkingbGatorade (no red or purple) with Miralax and Gas X throughout the day. I just drank the first dose of Suprep, and I'm chasing it down with Gatorade. I take the second dose tonight, then nothing after 5 am. Colonoscopy is at 9 am.
GPV
(72,377 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)My doc has me taking Miralax and Gas X as well. She wants me CLEANED OUT!
GPV
(72,377 posts)a blockage that no one knew about until I had to prep for my colonoscopy.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,605 posts)Mine is Thursday at 1pm. A friend who's done this before suggested the Miralax/Gatorade method. She said it does the same thin Suprep but is cheaper and doesn't taste as bad.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)She wants my colon to be clean as a whistle.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)CincyDem
(6,357 posts)Doesnt taste a lot better but it goes down a lot easier. Lolol
Ps. Just not the RED gatoraide.
rogerballard
(2,879 posts)with a little bit of apple juice then sucked on a piece of lemon.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)otherwise some would just use it as a laxative. The way it cleans out the colon, it would be incredibly harmful to use very often.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)It is some nasty stuff, but as far as laxatives go, there are so many you can buy OTC.
we can do it
(12,184 posts)Freddie
(9,265 posts)Gets the awful taste out of your mouth.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)you have to drink so much so fast (every ten minutes). Who drinks that much? It makes me feel sick because my stomach is so full.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)unblock
(52,221 posts)Prep is basically otherwise largely inert salts that your body passes through the intestines.
Once there, your body dilutes the massive salt intake with massive amounts of water, which is what clears out your gut.
As it's just massive amounts of salt, no wonder it tastes horrible. That's your gut brain telling you this is not nutritionally helpful.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)... there are people who use it to make weight.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have mine coming up in January. Can you really drink alcohol during your prep? I am planning to be sober, but it might make things easier.
Chainfire
(17,537 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm not eating a Big Mac!
Chainfire
(17,537 posts)I think it is the "special sauce."
The last time I prepped, after things started to "clear up" I passed a penny that I had swallowed when I was three years old.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Big Macs are a young person's game.
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)Kaleva
(36,298 posts)I'm thinking it's the food snobs who are the most disgusted by the prep
Kaleva
(36,298 posts)It's a habit I picked up while in the Navy when I had to keep working even though exhausted and with the brew room temp, I could chug a cup or two quickly to get a caffeine boost.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)I was also enlisted but while I did drink coffee then, my caffeine intake greatly increased when I quit smoking! It's like I have to have a vice, LOL. And working 12 hour night shifts, it's a good one to have.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)to take my morning meds. Otherwise, nothing after midnight.
RobinA
(9,893 posts)as long as you dont add cream.
The thing that gets me is the low blood sugar. This last time my appointment was at 1:30 and I didnt go in until 3:30. It was awful. Much better once they got the IV running.
Aristus
(66,344 posts)Now that I'm (actually over) due for my own colonoscopy, I'm not looking forward to the prep.
Thunderbeast
(3,408 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,097 posts)if my teeth were clamped together.
keithbvadu2
(36,796 posts)Prep day is definitely worse than procedure day.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)Unless you are high risk for colon cancer, there's something simpler.
Cologuard.
mitch96
(13,904 posts)Also there is the possibility of complications that are not brought up in the office visit.
Look up "colonoscopy complications"...
No history of colon stuff in my family so the cologuard for me..
Way back when we gave patients a prep called "Go Lightly" it was neither...
Complaints of explosive diarrhea were common...
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TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)You're 3 times more likely to get colon cancer in your lifetime than to have complications from a colonoscopy.
mitch96
(13,904 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)when you are 50 or 60. Then if they don't find anything, you can wait 10 years until the next one. Cologuard is fine for younger patients or during the in between years.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,186 posts)If they're paying for it, I'm fine with it.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Kind of hides the taste, but it's still a bit unpleasant. There has to be a better way.
If only they could have you in the day before, put you completely under, flush you out while you are totally unconscious and then perform the procedure and wake you when it's done, that would be ideal. The prep is absolutely the worst part of it.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)First, for about four or five days, I ate a low fiber diet (https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/washington/get-care/additional-services/gastroenterology/colon-diet-low-fiber). Then when I had to mix up the prep solution, I only used half the water. I made ice cubes with a lemon lime electrolyte stuff my husband had purchased but hated.
When I started on the prep, I mixed the ice cubes with the prep solution in batches, creating sort of a prep slushie. It still tasted bad, but with it really cold and masked by the other stuff, it was tolerable.
I will do that from now on for my prep since it made it possible to get a good clear colonoscopy this time, unlike my first.
Kali
(55,008 posts)ice cold and use a straw
Fla Dem
(23,666 posts)Get it over and done with.
Chainfire
(17,537 posts)No since in prolonging the agony.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)"gulp" it with the straw.
In other words, take a big suck on the straw and let it hit the back of your throat. It goes right down and bypasses your taste buds.
That's how I do it.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)turkey baster.
I'm assuming that's not correct?
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)we're now certain what "assume" does.