# Good news for colonoscopy prep!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-for-colonoscopy-prep/663087>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 9, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-for-colonoscopy-prep/663087 "2013-07-09T23:23:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-for-colonoscopy-prep/663087/21 "2013-10-23T06:08:38Z")

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> [@Professor Farnsworth](#):
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> Good news, everyone!

Time for some zombie poo here:

I used the Prepopik for this year’s session, and it was indeed an improvement over what I’ve heard of all the others.

First dose (Sunday evening), I didn’t mix up enough at first. First sip, I noted “tastes like bad lemonade”. Then I noticed the layer of undissolved powder at the bottom, and stirred it a bit more til it was dissolved. This resulted in a body-temperature liquid (I guess the stuff is a bit exothermic?), that tasted of a hint of bad lemonade, but mostly windshield-washing lquid or something (not that I’d know). However, it was only 5 ounces, and I alternated it with sips of non-artificially-colored orange soda.

Same thing in the morning, though I mixed it more carefully right off the bat so it was still cool when I drank it, and it was more consistently bad-lemonade and less window cleaner.

The advantage over the horse pills (osmo-prep) was that while you have to drink as much liquid, it’s over a couple or three hours, NOT 40 ounces of any-flavor-as-long-as-it-tastes-bad Gatorade in an hour while also chowing down on about a cupful of salty horse pills.

The bad: I drank it at 6:30 PM. Despite having taken Dulcolax the evening before, NOTHING happened until nearly 10 PM. I was considering sending my husband out to the 24-hour drugstore for Miralax. Then when it did kick in, it was every hour or so. All night. Yeah, that was fun.

So I got up earlier than planned in the morning to start the prep - 6:00 instead of 8:00 as instructed - and had to put the cup down mid-dose and make a run for it. Yes, nearly 12 hours later :(. Then, oddly, THAT round was done by 10:30 AM.

The other bad: I had hoped, especially given that it stopped “working” at 10:30, that it wouldn’t still be hitting me AFTER the procedure. Sadly, this was not the case :(. I was still running to the pot by 5:30 PM. Boo. I guess I’m just lucky, sigh.

And the really good news: things were MUCH better this time around - enough so that I get to go 2 years before the next one. Woohoo!

I’ll definitely consider this prep next time, though I"ll start the “evening” prep by noon!!

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-for-colonoscopy-prep/663087/22 "2013-10-23T10:51:28Z")

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Makes me much happier to have my doctors realize that absolutely every form of prep other than a fleet enema is going to negatively impact my health for a week and that to prep me in anything other than an emergency is going to be entirely dietary with enemas at the end [heh] - I don’t have to deal with yuccky pills or drinks. 😛

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