Wellness

[PINKdogWOOD]

@SeaMaiden   You don't need to claim for insurance, none of these products cost hardly anything.

You can keep the remaining Dulcolax on hand if anyone ever needs it later. Mix with the 8.4oz of Miralax and 2 32oz bottles of a LIGHT colored Gatorade.

It's easier to mix and drink at room temp. My best advice is to start your drinking early enough during the DAY, not at late afternoon nor early evening because each person is different. You don't know how long it may take for this mix to get you going. 

If you start this late afternoon, you could be up for hours into the night. 

As well, be sure to stop eating regular meals days before you drink your mix. A much lighter stomach is so much easier to totally empty your tract for the exam.

Good luck - really this test is very easy, takes about 30-45 minutes, you don't feel a thing AND it's very necessary for your  health.

[hckynutjohn]

Only prep I have ever used was Go or NuLytely, which are 1 gallon preps. Had Endo and Colon at the same time in July. Since 2008 that now adds up to 21 gallons. Didn't have an option, but with my familiarity with the above 2 preps? Why would I change. 

My next Double Procedure, Upper and Lower, will be in 2025, every 3 years. I have no plans on changing my prep. My doctor gives me the mix, but like someone else mentioned! It may be on the tab. I have never looked for the minute' details on any of my long listed EOB's. The big $$$ codes are what my wife goes through.

hckynut 🇺🇸

[tends2dogs]

@hckynutjohn That is what I used, too, a couple years ago.  People suggested adding powdered lemonade to it.  I tried one glass that way and was so glad I didn't add it to the whole jug.  It was terrible.  I just mixed up the NuLytely and put it in the fridge. I kept pouring it over ice in a big tumbler starting in the late afternoon and was done by midnight.  I have to have another test done next summer and I will request the NuLytely.  

I also ate very light the days prior to the test. That helped a lot, but I don't eat meat or poultry.  

[deeva]

I had to take this regimen for my last colonoscopy. The cost was so low that I never considered checking for reimbursement. 

[RetRN]

@hckynutjohn, your prep is by far the best and most effective one. Not  pleasant but the only one I would do. I had my colonscopy a year ago today.

[Shelbelle]

I took all pills both times and my gastro doc said my prep was just perfect, no need to suffer thru the prep any worse than it already is. 

[CritterKeeper]

Ugh! I wish I could have done this. I had to take these pills (like 20 of them) and that nasty Citrate of Mag. 

The Citrate of Mag made me really sick so I'll never take that again. About 15 minutes after taking it I felt like I was having a heart attack. I got so dizzy that I had to lay on the bathroom floor (not an attractive look) and I got super hot. Never again!

I've had bariatric surgery so taking all of those pills wasn't easy, but doable.

[hckynutjohn]

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@CritterKeeper wrote:

Ugh! I wish I could have done this. I had to take these pills (like 20 of them) and that nasty Citrate of Mag. 

The Citrate of Mag made me really sick so I'll never take that again. About 15 minutes after taking it I felt like I was having a heart attack. I got so dizzy that I had to lay on the bathroom floor (not an attractive look) and I got super hot. Never again!

I've had bariatric surgery so taking all of those pills wasn't easy, but doable.

@CritterKeeper 

Since you mentioned bariatric surgery and that large number of pills.

My wife had Roux-en-Y bariatric surgery in 2008. Since that time she has had 2 Colonoscopies. She goes to the same Gastro Doctors as I, and with them your choices are: Go or NuLytely, 1 gallon prep. That's it. She never had a problem with either, other than the typical "tastes like cr*p" complaint.

She has since had 13 small intestine surgeries for blockages and other reasons. You didn't say, but I am assuming your Colonoscopy, came back with good results.

Might be a good idea to check with your Gastroenterologist about the Lytely Preps for your next Colonoscopy. Still surprised at the "20" pills. Never went that route in my 16 Colonoscopies, but I never thought "pills" would mean taking 20 of them!

hckynut(john)🥅🏒 🇺🇸

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