bowel prep..

Ugh!!!

First I didnt realize that is is like soda ...I hate carbination it doesent agree with my stomach at all.....so I was ready to puke befor I finished all 10 oz....


and 2nd after about 25 minutes it hit and have been going to the potty off and on and boy does my poor but hurt I see why they say use wipes and diaper cream...Boy do I wih I had that now

Noticed what ever I drink that is the color it comes out....had raspberry jello early this morning ;and thought I was bleeding internally...LOL!

any way so far it hasnt been to bad except the drink it self......

(I had the lemon phosphate and it was lemon.....pucker up)

yep, I had that too and it made me vomit more times than I can remember!

I could have clear liquids until midnight the night before my surgery, but was cautioned to stay away from anything red. You don't want the doctors to be thinking it's blood during your surgery.

Glad you were able to get it all down. I remember drinking around 3/4 of mine and it kept threatening to come back up, so I called the doctor's office and told the nurse I felt like I wasn't going to be able to finish it because it was making me nauseous. She told me if I vomited, I'd have to go out and get another bottle and drink it. I don't know how I did it, but I finished it and it stayed down.

Best wishes to you

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Originally Posted by Pattiepooh Ugh!!! First I didnt realize that is is like soda ...I hate carbination it doesent agree with my stomach at all.....so I was ready to puke befor I finished all 10 oz.... and 2nd after about 25 minutes it hit and have been going to the potty off and on and boy does my poor but hurt I see why they say use wipes and diaper cream...Boy do I wih I had that now Noticed what ever I drink that is the color it comes out....had raspberry jello early this morning ;and thought I was bleeding internally...LOL! any way so far it hasnt been to bad except the drink it self...... (I had the lemon phosphate and it was lemon.....pucker up)

When I did my prep for colonoscopy they told me don't drink anything red or purple because they can confuse it with blood.

mshowdy

now someone tells me...well by the time I got done all ther red was gone so I hope Im in good shape for surgery today

I had the lemon phosphate too. I chugged it cold. BLEH! I had no idea that there was "prep" like that involved.

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Originally Posted by Pattiepooh now someone tells me...well by the time I got done all ther red was gone so I hope Im in good shape for surgery today

You might want to mention to your doctor that you ate red jello yesterday just to be on the safe side.

For others who may be reading this, it's not only red jello, but red kool-aid, red popsicles, red gatorade, cranberry juice etc. It's not that your doctor doesn't know the difference between blood and red jello, but during surgery it could appear as blood in the intestines.