Any experience with citrate of magnesium for a prep?

I've done the Mag Cit prep for colonoscopies and quite frankly PREFERRED the Mag Cit or the PhosphoSoda ANY DAY to ANY of the Lytely products. I never had a problem w/either the Mag Cit or the PS. They Lytely products made me nauseous as heck and I absolutely REFUSE to use them - until I finally heard about and tried Half Lytely. At least I can tolerate it.

Have you talked w/your gastro or his PA/NP about logistics of that hour drive and those 2 Fleets enemas?? They should be able to help you out w/the timing.

I just did it on Monday. By far the easiest prep I've done. I wasn't able to keep it down (I threw it up after about an hour and a half, which is longer than I've kept any other down). The taste wasn't too bad, I had the lemon one. Started working in about 45 mins, I was actually able to take a 4 hour nap after I threw it up, and I was still cleaned out after (in about an hour after I woke up). It was super easy for me, I only had to do one bottle though because I was doing a CT enterography, not sure if you have to do one or 2. I didn't get stomach pain anywhere near as close as I did with other preps. I also didn't have as much urgency. It just went a lot smoother overall. The preps always suck, but honestly, easiest one I've done.

I will say the easiest prep I ever did I went w/my daughter and granddaughters to a horse show. We hauled the horse trailer w/our old RV. After we got the horses unloaded and everything set up I drank the first bottle of Mag Cit and just watched out the window of the RV as my daughter and granddaughters competed in their classes. Late that afternoon I competed in one class and then drank the second bottle of Mag Cit. They got to do all the loading when the show was over and my daughter drove us home.

The key was having the RV and being able to park it right near the arena! I didn't have to leave the RV whilst the Mag Cit was doing its "thing" yet I got to watch most of their classes.

Its not the best tasting stuff but it is no where near so offensive as the NuLytely, GoLytely, etc. stuff and not even as bad as PhosphoSoda. The thing is the prep requires 2 bottles and the bottles are only 10 oz each. You can mix it w/whatever clear liquid you want. THE IMPORTANT thing is that you MUST be SURE to drink PLENTY of clear liquids so you are going to want to drink close to the same volume as if you were to do the Lytely products - BUT - only 20 ozs is not so great tasting, the rest of the volume can be any flavor or any clear liquid you want and can be drank over a much longer period of time. Right up until you have to go NPO.

The citrate of magnesium has a sour and acidic taste to it. It seems like the kind of prep that could make you sick if you had any upper GI problems at all like reflux. It was hard for me to get down. I preferred the half lightly.

for me Ive had 6 colon checks in my life......all were good with the citrate MAG .. I barfed when i tried 2 of the prescription ones..( the powder you add to the big cup) not for me.. I think i kept down maybe half... I hear you can mix it with gatoraide ( the powder not citrate) just not red

the 1.50 bottle of citrate works fine..... i think the drug companies wanted some money here and had to make something.... this stuff has never been so called """hard on my kidneys" the reason BIG pharm has there stuff...