magnesium citrarte.............

so i have to drink magnesium citrate tonight AND an enema in the morning before I leve for surgery. Anyone else have to and how long does it take for this stuff to work. Cause the way its looking i'll be up all night if something don't "move" soon

it took about 2 hours for it to work for me. what time did your dr say to start it? hopefully not at bedtime!!

I drank it at 7. I looked on WebMD and it said that it took between 30 min to 3 hours to work. And its been 2.5 hours so far and i'm ready for bed.

The good news, is that the enema works in 5 minutes. Best of luck to you!

Lol. Thanks.

mine kicked in after three and a half hours. I started at noontime the day before my surgery.

I'm afraid you will be up late this evening.... :/

I reckon I will be, lol. Especially since I need to be up at 3am. So I have time to do the enema and be at the hospital at 6am. Ah the joys of living in the boonies.

Thanks for the input ladies.

That drink is an insult on top of surgery. LOL. I gagged it down. Yuke. Good luck with your surgery.

I wasn't told to do any bowel prep, but I'm upping my stool softeners today to try and have a good "clean out" all the same! I have enough problems with BMs with out being bound up before I even start :S

I agree this stuff is/was nasty. i had the choice of three flavors. My daughter picked it out for me. She is 4. Told me when I got home that if I didn't like that flavor that I could get a different one next time. But I had to drink that one first, lol.