Not a sentence I thought I’d ever write ;).
The FDA finally approved a sodium picosulfate-based prep for use in the US - people in Canada and Europe have been using it for a number of years. I saw the doc today (followup for the northern end, discussion of the next southern exploration in a few months…). I mentioned the problems I’d had with OsmoPrep (sodium phosphate pills… for me, they were “the gift that keeps on giving”), and my problems with textures and large quantities of torture, and he mentioned that picosulfate had been approved finally.
He’s used it with a few patients and so far it seems like it’s working well enough - hasn’t used it for enough of them yet to form a long-term opinion. Also it may be hard to get for a bit. But he did say he tasted it and it wasn’t bad.
Another alternative we talked about is SUPrep (which is pure sodium sulfate in a very bad tasting - but low volume - liquid). Doc said that some people found that alternating it with sucking on a menthol lozenge helped with the bad test of that. He also noted that nausea was pretty common with it. He offered me Zofran (antinausea med) if I wanted to go that route. I decided not to go with that since the picosulfate version has become available.
He really didn’t like my suggestion of the Gatorade+miralax thing even though I assured him I’d done the math on the electrolytes (which are NOT difficult to make up). He’s a bit paranoid, I guess.