Prep Sucks!

I've never done the Miralax prep before, but here are a few general ideas that might help:

* have some mint tea or ginger tea
* suck on an ice cube
* have a frozen fruit-juice ice block, or an icy pole
* try drinking your prep through a straw - for some reason that can help.
* sometimes, vomiting can indicate that you've become dehydrated with the prep, so perhaps drink some ordinary (non prep) fluid for a while, and give yourself a break?


Hang in there. It's horrible, I know.

What happens if it's not finished in four hours? Does it matter if you drink it over a longer period?

As I said, I don't have any experience with this prep...

Have you tried taking Gravol? I took it for my last prep because I throw up really easily now, I still felt like I wanted to throw up but it made it so I couldn't (or at least without really wanting to lol).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimenhydrinate There are other names, it's sold as Gravol here though, but it's an over the counter anti-nausea medication.

In all the times Ive had a colonoscopy Ive never finished the prep in 4 hours.  Seriously though, drinking it through a straw helps a lot.  Usually I can get through half of it fine, but the second half kills me!  I just hold my nose and suck it through the straw fast.  I fill up a glass and try to get 1/3 of it down at a time, every 5 mins or so.  Also, I know you said you suffer from cyclical vomiting, I dont know what that all involves or if it has to do with your gag reflexes, but I put the straw deep in my mouth so when I suck in it just goes right down my throat and I hardly taste it.  Also making sure its SUPER cold helps a lot too. Goodluck! I hope you can get it down.

EDIT: Also, I never start having BMs until Im almost completely done with it, a lot of the time I worry that its not working, but it does once you start getting the second half done.

My test isn't until 2pm so I have plenty of time. I just want to stop drinking and start eating. I think my mistake was mixing the miralax in gatorade. It's just too sweet. I usually drink G2 but my market only had red and purple G2.

I've found it quite useful to not eat for a while before your procedure. It's really nice to only need to drink a few cups of the stuff before you're clear.

I still have about 30 oz to go and no bowel movements. I'm giving up and just ate a Twix bar. I'll call in the morning and cancel. As I said earlier I really doubt the scope would show anything so I'm not going to reschedule. With the ducalax and half dose of miralax I got I should have started pooping by now. Oh well. I just hope I don't start in the middle of the night. If I sleep I can go to work tomorrow.

So I didn't have a bowel movement until 4:30am. I spoke to my GI and her feeling is even with the amount I drank I should have had a movement earlier and should have more than I have. She thinks its because I've been constipated. I have to drink so more miralax today and I'm rescheduled for 1:30pm tomorrow. I just have to drink enough to have clear movements, so hopefully that won't be too much.

I'm doing better with the miralax today, maybe because I mixed it in diet iced tea this time. I just hope it cleans me out today.

My original scope was scheduled for 2pm today. I am nowhere near clean so I'm drinking miralax again today until I am clean. I started this new batch at around 12:30pm. I'm about half way through and have had 1 bm. I'm now scheduled for 1:30pm tomorrow. I hope to be "clean" soon, get a good nights sleep and go to work in the morning for a few hours before heading out for my scope.

Yeah that prep is just cruel and unusual punishment! LOL I could never get it all down either, thankfully I was in the hospital and they didn't let me eat anything for a few days (due to all the bleeding I had). So luckily I was cleaned out. I think I got half of it down, and yes I DID throw up. Just awful. I'm hoping next time they would allow me to do the miralax prep.