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Posted 5/8/2012 5:09 PM (GMT 0)
Okay... So I did the Miralax prep. Easy right???Except I got a gallon of gatorade instead of 64 ounces and I already dumped half of the miralax into the bottle. So what do I do? Do I dump half of the gatorade into a container and add the rest of the miralax and see what happens? If I'm not clean I can drink the rest of the gatorade right? And I also have three bottles of mag cit because my doc doesn't think I'll be cleaned out due to severe constipation. BUT I've been having looser BMS for the last few days to the tune of three a day (unheard of for me. So now I'm worried that I completely messed up my prep. And I don't wanna go spend another $25. Any advice or suggestions????

TIA
Posted 5/8/2012 5:20 PM (GMT 0)
when i did mine i think it was miralax but i'm not 100% positive. i was told to get a gallon of water, pour all the stuff in & mix it up. then i could add powder gatorade to taste. he told me to pretty much drink the enitre thing. there was no way i could drink it all. i drank as much as i could. it wasn't "clear" when i went like its supposed to be. but it was like a light yellow water. the doc the next morning told me that was fine.
Posted 5/8/2012 9:42 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the reply. I took the gatorade, dumped half of it into a jug and added the rest of the miralax to that. I drank three large glasses already and my stomach got nauseated so I ate a lemon popsicle. Now I have to drink another glass and I want to gag. Not that it tastes bad it just has this sort of slimy texture to it. I have it over ice with a straw but it is still weird. I don't know. Still haven't had a BM yet and I started at 330. Although technically I should be done with the solution already but I still have half to go. Guess I need to get started. Gag....BTW I am soooo hungry... want fooooood... lol :)
Posted 5/8/2012 10:06 PM (GMT 0)
Ok. So now i just realized that I'm a complete idiot!!!! I was looking at miralax not working and I realized that I was suppose to use a 200 something ounce bottle of miralax with 64 ounces of gatorade. I got a gallon of gatorade and a 500 something ounce bottle of miralax. So I should just drink half, except that i poured half the miralx into the gallon. Then divided the gatorade in half and then poured the other half of miralax into the gatorade. So now that do I do? I drank almost half of the 64 ounces already. Should I just stop now and see what happens? I feel so stupid. I felt so confident about all of this., I think I'm just going to switch to water and hope for the best. Maybe have hubby pick me up another bottle of plain gaterade? I can't believe I did that!!!
Posted 5/9/2012 12:51 AM (GMT 0)
Well you lost me. Lol

But I didn't start going to the bathroom til about 8pm and only did til about 10 or 1030. Once I started i was in the bathroom drinking that drink to try to get it down. I just drank as much as I could til it was like water coming out. No pieces at all. I think they want it clear but lik I said mine was a light yellow water and the next day my doc said that was fine. I just said I drank as much as I could but it never got clear. I think you will know when your cleaned out enough.
Posted 5/9/2012 3:52 AM (GMT 0)
So . . . let's see if we can figure this out. You got a bottle of Miralax that was twice as big as it was supposed to be. You put half of the Miralax into a gallon of Gatorade (twice as much as you were supposed to have)--and then poured half of that mixture out. Which would leave you with roughly the right amount of Gatorade and half of the required amount of Miralax (assuming that the Miralax was mixed evenly throughout the Gatorade).

Then you added all the Miralax remaining in the bottle--which, since it was half a bottle, would have been the prescribed amount of Miralax to begin with. So now, if you've drunk pretty much all of that, you've consumed (1) exactly the right amount of Gatorade, but (2) one-and-a-half times the required amount of Miralax.

Since you've consumed way more Miralax than you were supposed to, I'd predict you're in for one heck of a night! My advice (and I'm definitely not a medical professional) would be to stop drinking from this point on, unless you feel an overwhelming urge to flush some of the extra Miralax out of your system with some plain water. Yuck!

Don't feel stupid. Colonoscopy prep sucks--and it's hard to think straight when you're edgy and know you're headed for a truly crappy evening (literally). Good luck!
Posted 5/9/2012 10:22 PM (GMT 0)
Your post made me laugh!!! Thank you for the reply. Yes, that was exactly what I did. Although I did also have some popsicles and extra water. Lots of it. And I was still going to the bathroom at midnight and a little this morning. But I must have been cleaned out because he got all the way to my small intestine and what did he find......

Well, from what I remember it was inflammation in the beginning of the large intestine (or rather end if you think about it lol) and then more inflammation passed something else or almost to the small intestine or maybe in the small intestine. I guess he couldn't see it well and I got a little confused at that point. So he's thinking either UC or CD. They did some blood work and I have to call tomorrow and make a follow up appointment for further testing.

At this point my stomach is still upset, but I will definitely do the miralax prep again. Although correctly next time lol. I was atleast able to drink it compared to the nulytle. YUCK...
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