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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 absolutely agree

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Okay - I finished my first bottle of the Suprep a little over 2 hours ago. This is my first colonoscopy, so I don't have anything to compare it to, but I will say that it took about an hour and a half before I had to go to the bathroom after finishing the first bottle. The first bathroom trip was a little loose, but pretty close to normal. About a half hour later I began really going to the bathroom - seriously- it is like peeing out of your butt - and it doesn't stop - it's like Niagara Falls! The first trip there was warning, after that you don't even know when it's going to happen!

It's extremely difficult to drink the amount of water they tell you to afterwards too!

The taste is HORRIBLE - I vomited in my mouth a couple of times (I mixed it with Apple juice instead per my dr). It is obviously supposed to be grape, doesn't smell bad, just tastes like grape cough syrup only worse - it's thick, not quite a syrup but not a nice drink either - and nothing gets rid of the taste afterwards I swear!

What I'm more concerned with is that I am sweating bullets, have the chills, have somewhat blurred vision, and my feet and hands are painfully numb/asleep - ESPECIALLY my feet/legs. I am light-headed/dizzy and have an awful migraine! Is this normal? I literally cannot walk or even stand without support right now because my legs are too numb and won't move!

Also, I see that most people took the two bottles on different days, but I was told to take them 3 hours apart. Has anybody done this before? I should have started the second bottle a half hour ago, but I'm nervous to start it because I feel like a) there is nothing left to clean out, b) I'm worried if I take it I'll pass out if it makes me even more light-headed, and c) quite honestly, there's no way for me to walk to the kitchen right now to pour it because my legs won't move!

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Lynkidd...read posts 565-568. It might help and then again it may have been posted to late to help. Also, if you are having your colonoscopy in the early morning they usually ask you to do both preps the same day

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sorry, that last post was meant for you and not Lynkidd

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I took my first bottle at 5:30 pm also all the water and extra,its not working,clled the company they said drink more wter,ialready have ,still nothing.

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Believe me it will work, I'm sure it has by now. While I thought the taste was completely disgusting I managed to take both doses. Since I'm not a good water drinker had trouble getting down the two bottles of water but did it..sat on the toilet with my book and drank.. in one end..out the other. Good luck.

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same dose because your colon is the same length, has nothing to do with your weight or height

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Update, was able to sleep from 4:30 to 7. All went well, pardon the pun. Next time I'll start the process at 3:00 PM.

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I have a appoint ment at 12 I have to drink a bottle 4 hours before what time should I drink it

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Despite the bad taste of the prep, it doesn't help to chug this stuff to "get it over with." I sipped the prep over a period of 30 minutes, and used a timer so I wouldn't feel any need to rush. You can also keep a piece of hard candy -- like a lemon drop -- in your mouth while sipping the prep. The candy helps to kill the aftertaste following each. This makes it easier to tolerate. Do the same with the two 16 oz. glasses of water to follow: 30 minutes for each glass.

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> "... and immediately chugged the required addition two 16oz of water."

That's fine if you can tolerate chugging 32 oz. If not, it's perfectly all right to take it slower. I drank the 16 oz. glasses of water over a period of one hour -- 30 minutes for each glass. It's all going down the same pipe, so you don't really gain (or lose) anything by chugging.

This is my fourth colonoscopy, so I've had a chance to try different approaches. For me, taking it slow makes the prep a lot more tolerable. And fast or slow, the result will be the same.

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What do you do if you've taken the first dose of surprep over a 20 min period and then vomit what seems like almost the whole 16 oz. My colonoscopy is at 7:30am and I'm worried that I won't be clear for the morning. Anyone else have this issue?

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That was exactly my experience! I could never do that again! Or it would have to be life or death it was so putridly AWFUL!! Just AWFUL!! I seriously don't know how I did not vomit the second bottle!

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Have you tried other methods? I used this for my first colonoscopy prep and I had no adverse effects. Lucky, I guess. Yes, it does taste bad but I would rather drink those two bottles and the water chasers than drink a gallon of that "sweet" stuff that my mother used and gagged with every swig. Everyone has different tastes and different reactions. Don't judge the people who wrote positive reviews. I never heard of Suprep until my doctor prescribed it to me. Hopefully your colonoscopy went well.

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Suprep tastes horrible. If bowel is running clear after the first dose, do you have to do the second? I will be extremely reluctant to have a colonoscopy again if Suprep has to be used. Also, what is the grape/berry flavor that people are talking about? The stuff that I was given is very salty and smells/tastes like musty mold.

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Dougie Quick said: "That was exactly my experience! I could never do that again! Or it would have to be life or death it was so putridly AWFUL!! Just AWFUL!! I seriously don't know how I did not vomit the second bottle!"

To get around that, I used a mint mouthwash (Scope or a generic). After drinking about 1/3 of the first dose of Suprep, I IMMEDIATELY rinsed with the mouthwash. That was very effective at taking away the rancid flavor of the prep. Repeated that for the next two-thirds of the prep, and it really wasn't that bad.

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Did the liqid diet day b4, took first bottle as instrucked. Got it all down within first hr. Its very hard to tolerate toward the end of the dose. I was not able to get the two 16 oz. doses of water in within the next hr.
Next morn took 2/3rds of second dose and threw up some of it. Couldn't finish off the other third. The stuff is horrible to tolerate, I tried very hard to keep it down. Seems like whats coming out is yellow. Don't know if The dr will do the procedure

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I really don't think there is a tasty alternative, but going thru other websites I found some people taking pills with loads of water. Perhaps dr.'s are getting kickbacks for prescribing this vomit. I split my doses into 1/3's with extra water and chased it with fresh squeezed lemon juice and barely got it down. As for the guy who said only 4 trips to bathroom?!!! Not believable for this is my second colonoscopy and I am currently sitting on the toilet for nearly 5 hrs straight!!

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My husband just used muviprep, said tasted like 7up. No complaints with pain or cramps. Well prepped for procedure.

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got a quick question I know someone that took SUPREP Bowel Prep Kit and its been over a month or so since their colonoscopy and this person can still taste the prep kit, is this Normal or should the person contact a doctor? The person can taste it in anything the eat and or drink.

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