UGH Gross!!! need to vent and inject a little humor into my day warning!! May be TMI

OK COLON CLEANSING NO FUN!!!! OMG this stuff is the most horrible thing I have EVER tasted!! who invented this stuff?!? Not only am I choking down this monstrosity but I am on the potty every 2 second honestly its not painful for those of you yet to have to go through it just a royal bummer having to be in and out of the bathroom all day. I am wasing it down inbetween sips with a ice pops to get rid of the taste! PLEASE TELL ME IT GETS BETTER FROM HERE LOL!!!

Its that bad? One positive, we can loose a little weight before our surgerys. Good luck. Tell me what else you did to get it down. Need the advise.

I suppose it depend on the kind you get I am on the kind where you have to drink 1 gallon in 4 hours equals out to be about 8 oz every 10 mins... Drinking that much of anything makes me nausous but when it tastes this icky it makes it worse. I am taking a drink of something I like and opening up my throat a little and then slam a gulpful of the colon cleanser so I don't gag on it and getting the taste out of my mouth with ice pops ! It smells kinda fishy and has a taste that is inbetween really salty and really fishy I can't honestly say it is that bad but the taste does make me gag!!

I don't know what you had to drink down, but mine (mag citrate) wasn't too bad at all. I also didn't have to live in the bathroom either. Different reactions for different people, I guess, huh?

i did the magnesium citrate too- wasn't that bad! i did that cleanse for my colonoscopy- i can definitely relate to what you are going through!!!
good luck with everything and hope to hear from ya on the other side.

Is it golightly? I had to take that before surgeryto remove my tumor and I **still** have nightmares about the taste. I mixed it with lemon flavored drink mix and I still can't drink lemonade because it makes me gag. Sorry if that's what you're taking- it will be over soon!

Have you tried to use a straw? Cold also helps
Yes, it does get better

yes it was golyte...and the tase is horrendous omg I will never get over that taste!!!! the taste was much worse than the actual cleaning out !!!

i had the small bottle of mag citrate, i hated it, was terrible I thought and i also wasn't allowed to have anything but a liquid diet the day before surgery and drinking this stuff made my stomach hurt, i needed something solid. I even called my doc and asked if i could at least have some noodles in my chicken broth and she said that i could if i felt sick.

oh, yes since the day before surgery was a liquid diet and the two days after surgery were liquid diets i lost about 20lbs in 5 weeks since surgery.