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Has anyone used the new SUPREP kit before a colonoscopy?

Would like any comments about taste, ease or side effects.

Thanks!

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I am a 59 year old female weight 130. This is do able. First, have a positive outlook because that will help. Next, drink 8 oz of fluid (water, Gatorade) no coffee or tea every 15 min for 2-3 hours before you start. This will eliminate the cramping. Use a straw, hold your nose and have honey near by to take the bitter taste off your tongue (you know "a spoonful of honey helps the medicine go down"). Do not let go of your nose until finished. This will eliminate the nausea. I did the full dose the first time but only half the second as everything coming out of me is clear. Good lick!

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in this day and age when one has to plug their nose,chase with shooters of honey to ultimately still be doubled over with pain or vomit...WHEN the prep is worse than the procedure (and this is the supposed top prep) it's clear the pharmaceutical company owns the market here. More so than not and other than this post the general response to this prep is negative...Cmon guys..one should not have to tolerate uncomfortable to this degree

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My colonoscopy is scheduled for late this morning. I had nothing to eat Ll day yesterday but drank lots of chicken broth throughout the day, which helped. I took the first dose of Suprep at 5:00 PM yesterday and the 32 oz of water followed by Gatorade. Everything came out and I am running clear. I have a splitting headache and cannot sleep. It's 3:41 am. I'm supposed to take the second dose at 5:00 am but since I am running clear, I can't imagine why I need to put myself through that again.

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Finished the first dang dose. It took me praying to God and 45 minutes to get it down. I swallowed each gulp and a lot came back up but was able to swallow it except a small amount. I am so scared I won't be able to get the second bottle down.

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I did a lot of praying too, Cheryl, from 2-5 a.m. when my body was rejecting the stuff. Hope all is well.

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This is my first colonoscopy and I was prescribed suprep. Mixed first dose with water and it was terrible!! Second dose I mixed with lots of icy water and had a Popsicle on hand to eat before and after sips. Also tried holding some ice water in mouth then take a sip of suprep with straw, kinda helped a little them followed by another gulp of water. I was up periodically during the night with diarrhea so I didn't plan on drinking the whole second dose. Had chills and slight headache. Nothing too bad. Good luck to u all!!

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I used a few tips from prior users that were helpful: 1. Eat a low residue (low-fiber diet in the days leading up to the prep. 2. Drink the Suprep very cold and with a wide straw (kind for shakes and smoothies). 3. Between swallows of the Suprep take a sip of chicken broth. I think the salty taste of the broth negates the salty aftertaste of the Suprep. I had no cramping at all. It worked pretty fast so don't wander far from the bathroom. Good luck.

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I am having my first colonoscopy today. I drank two bottles of Suprep; and I will never drink Suprep again. It was awful. I got the first bottle down at 5 PM as instructed then I had to wake up at 1 AM for the scone bottle. The first bottle was bad, just awful tasting but I managed to get it down with gulps of straight cold water. The second bottle was worse somehow; I gagged three times. The rest of the prep has been easy enough, including the movements after the Suprep. I wish I was told some of the hints of mixing it with gatorade or something else. At this point, I never plan on having another colonoscopy due to the Suprep.

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Worst tasting prep I've ever used. I will never ever use it again. It was foul!

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Just had my first colonoscopy today. I'm a 51 year old woman. My husband had his in the spring and endured movieprep and vomited that so I asked for something different. I was given suprep. I had a light breakfast yesterday morning consisting of toast and 2 scrambled eggs. After that I drank water and had orange jello, sucked on some jolly ranchers (green) and also gummy bears. I was kind of tired of the citric taste but I was surprised that I wasn't more hungry then I was. Lunch was vegetable soup with the pasta etc strained out.

I was to start the prep at 6 and so about 4:30 I took a nap thinking I'd be up late. I mixed it with cold tap water. We chilled my husbands prep and I was thinking that may have been why he threw it up (btw...he ended up taking OTC Magnesium Citrate and was cleaned out fine). I had a bowl of chicken broth (again just strained out the pasta) ready along with 2 large glasses of water (one in the kitchen and one in the bathroom). I used a straw to drink it down but towards the end I just chugged it. I didn't want to mix it with another clear liquid because I didn't want to ruin the flavor of that drink, plus I didn't know how the flavor would mix with the suprep.

The solution wasn't something that I would sit and drink while watching a movie, but it wasn't horrible. I sipped chicken broth right after and then started chugging the water. To me, that was the most difficult bc I was full and felt a little chilled.

It took maybe 45 mins to have anything happen, and it wasn't constant. I was in and out of the bathroom all evening. I was able to make it to the bathroom without any issues. I went to bed at 10:30 and slept no prob until about 3:30 (not unusual..,I wake up at night due to my husbands snoring). I came down and had Gatorade, I was a little worried as I didn't go as much as I imagined i would and I was still having brown watery stools. My second dose was to be at 6am (my procedure was at 2pm). The second went down fine along with the water.

Then it seemed to be more often and soon I was passing clear fluid.

The colonoscopy itself was fine. I am good for 5 years.

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I don't understand the issues people have with this. Yes.....it doesn't taste that great but I got it down by sipping through a straw in about 20 minutes and immediately chugged the required addition two 16oz of water. After that and 20 minutes later it worked. No cramping or headache. My only issue is that my foot fell asleep while sitting on the toilet! Part two in the morning.

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Took the first bottle at 6pm (mixed with water) and drank the 2 16oz water glasses. Face turned red as a beet and was hot. Felt like I had sunburn and didn't feel well. Very chilled. Stopped running to the bathroom before 11:30. Don't remember the time as I had fallen asleep. Next morning called the doctor and was told not to take the second bottle due to my reaction. Colon was clean enough from first bottle to do the colonoscopy with no issues.

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I am scheduled for a colonoscopy tomorrow morning at 9am. The instructions I received from the doc was to take the 1st bottle mixed with either water, sugar-free Crystal Light lemonade, or sugar-free 7-Up. I went with the Crystal Light. The taste wasn't that bad - very sweet and very salty, but the lemonade kind of covered it up. I drank it slowly, over about 30 minutes, then took a hour to chase with two more 16oz cups of lemonade. 45 minutes after pulling the pin on this gut -grenade, the urge hit and the first trip took care of any real solid wastes present. No cramping or bloating. Not really anything crazy, just a forceful movement. The 2nd trip though, about 30 minutes later, had me in amazement at the sheer volume of mostly clear liquid that came forth, and the force and constant flow of it. A few minutes before trip #2 launched, there was some mild cramping. I think I actually laughed out loud at what was transpiring. 30 minutes later, trip #3 yielded about the same results as trip #2, just not as voluminous and dramatic, and there was much, much less residue. I am now just sitting here typing this, wondering if there will be a trip #4. I do feel a little bloated and there are some rumblings in the gut, so I may stay up a bit to make sure I don't have some late-night emergency. I have to get up and drink round #2 at 5am tomorrow and then off to get the probing done. I will follow up with results and impressions.

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It seems that many have had a bad experience with Suprep. Can anyone who has had a bad experience with Suprep tell me what they have used in place of it that is more tolerable? I have an upcoming colonoscopy. Any information about a better substitute for Suprep will be appreciated.

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I began to lose faith in the credibility of the medical profession in regards to colonoscopies when Fleet Phospho Soda was pulled from the market. Thousands of people (including myself and my wife) used this highly tolerable laxative without any problems whatsoever. Only a very small number of people experienced renal failure and these high risk people could have been left out from using it had any reasonable attempt be made to do it. Other people are incapable of following directions to stay hydrated regardless of what they use. When my primary care physician told me that Fleet Phospho Soda was no longer available, I believed she sensed that I was very close to pulling the plug on doing any colonoscopy at all. It seemed that she very quickly wanted to get off the subject and go right into talking about the other preparations not being that bad at all. But when you're told that drinking a gallon of mixture is no problem when previously all you had to do was drink a few teaspoons of a highly tolerable off-the-shelf laxative, you begin to see that something is very wrong with this picture. I suspect that other patients she had may have refused to do any colonoscopy at all based on this. Two unanswered questions here: (1) If the use of Fleet Phospho Soda was deemed so bad after thousands of people had used it for years, how could anyone trust using any of the other preparations either? (2) Why wasn't some attempt made by the medical profession to leave out high risk people from using it and at least let other people who had used it previously with no problem continue to use it? Fortunately, I learned about Suprep and it worked well for me. My wife had no problem drinking a gallon of Miralax, but I don't know if I could have tolerated it or not because I hadn't tried it. Conversely, I don't know if she could have tolerated the Suprep because she hadn't tried it. In any case, colonoscopy preparation regressed when a highly tolerable laxative was pulled from the market and less tolerable ones were all that remained. As time goes forward, medical procedures are supposed to get better, not worse. But this is exactly what happened in colonoscopy preparation. I do believe that the medical profession is well aware that they have gone backwards in time in regards to tolerable colonoscopy preparation and is probably doing it's best to develop a preparation at least as tolerable as the Fleet Phospho Soda. But there is no question that a fiasco occurred here.

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Good Lord. The first 16 oz. yesterday evening was tolerable. This morning one, geez , your bottom is really sore, gosh, I can't wait until this is over. I had a colonoscopy 10 years ago. I used the old fashioned prep. I do not recall about the bottom being so sore. I read some of the comments from other people about using Vaseline. GOOD CHOICE!!!!!!! My bottom is less sore. Gosh,I wish there was another way of doing this. Oh,forgot to say, there is a little nausea going on. Good Luck everyone.

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It is the sickest most nastiest stuff in the world!

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Are you clear? If you're clear, I wouldn't worry. If not, try to get as much as you can down and suck on a lemon or lime wedge, it helps. Good luck... The prep is the worst!

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I took the 1st dose at 6 p.m. last night. Fought and tried hard to distract myself from getting sick. It took a little over an hr before I went the 1st time. Have been on and off the toilet all night and morning. I have a terrible headache and next dose is in 2 hrs at 10 a.m. I hope this goes better than the first round. Going to try a straw this time. It was cold the 1st round d but still had trouble. Had people praying for me and I think that is the only reason I didn't get sick. I will not ever do this again.

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This is my first experience with colonoscopy prep. I had no particular dietary precautions until the day before the test, except for avoiding foods with skins (like tomatoes) or small seeds for a few days. My doc suggests taking 1 oz. of Milk of Magnesia at bedtime the night before the day you start the prep, which I did. I also bought "extra gentle" baby wipes, "extra soft" TP and, per the doc's advice, some hydrocortisone creme. These all seem to be working well and I urge you to get all three. For me, the hardest thing has probably been the clear liquid diet, but I've managed to make that work. I really didn't have any problem drinking the first Suprep-water cocktail. I didn't even have to add the powdered Crystal Light that my doc says is ok to add. It started working in about 20 minutes. Minimal cramps, but like many others here I have felt chilled. Two hours after starting the first half of the prep I would say I'm pretty much already at "pale yellow liquid," so I have hopes that tomorrow the doc will say that I had a good prep. I have to get up at 3:30 tomorrow morning to finish the prep. I'll try to navigate my way back here to post a follow-up after it's all over, but so far I would say this is easily at least one notch better than the typical medical remark that it's "well tolerated" (which translates in English to: horrible to experience, but leaves no permanent scars).

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