I need immediate information, please!

Tomorrow, 3/23/2017, my friend has to have a colonoscopy. She was told to drink miralax mixed with gatorade and drink it so many times until her stools ran clear. When she mixed it (according to the directions on the paper), it came out a big soupy orange mixture, to thick to drink. She ate what she could of it, but the texture is making her want to throw up, not poop!

She is willing to do an enema, and we have the equipment to do so, but we don't know what we SHOULD use. We have only ivory soap to use, or like household handwashing soaps, shower soaps or dishwashing soaps. We don't know what we should use to make her have to go, or how often to DO the enemas.

I know some of you on here are for real medical people (doctors and nurses, etc) on here and you are the ones that we are asking the questions of. The doctors office closed at 5 p.m. and so we can't call them.

Thank you in advance for your help and advice! Please, we need info tonight...

Thanks so much!!

Breaze

Breeze, there are two options available , a product called Pico-Salax and the other is Purg -Odan see if you can find either and follow the directions . They are supposed to be more tolerable .

Remember not to mix with anything containing red , blue or purple dyes , I believe those are three to avoid . I am in no way an expert so I hope some of the wonderful med staff we have here chime in quickly .

Thank you for the info, but we don't have money to go out and get some. We spent what we had on the stuff the doctors office said to get, so we need a home remedy!! Thank you though for helping, and yes, you were right, no red, purple or blue dyes.

Add more water to the original mix until is is thin enough to drink. Enemas will NOT be adequate and will get her sent home to wait for a new appointment.

Thanks...she is trying now to see what they have to say. We've waited two or three months for this one. UGH!! I hope that they wont reschedule it and that they can give us info over the phone.

Bridgette is correct about the color .. i took one baby aspirin and it gave poor test results because the color "adheres" to the lining.

just dilute with water for the rest of the fluid intake

Thanks! She got in touch with the doctor. We are going to try to see if we can get some more stuff...hope neighbors or a friend will help. The doctor told her to get more stuff....and still keep trying.

You guys are great!

I hope "everything comes out " OK.

LOL! It should now. We got the right stuff this time. She thought she got a generic of Miralax. She got a generic of Metamucile. BIG difference!!

Thanks again everyone!!

LOL, I figured that was the mistake but I didn't see this thread until you found the answer. I was getting ready to send you a PM with my phone number and have you call me. Between Doc and I we were going to fix it. I hope everything is "moving" along okay now. Good luck tomorrow. My thoughts are with you. Also some personal advice, encourage her to be knocked out and not stay awake for it. Trust me on that.

Mashie

She thought she got a generic of Miralax. She got a generic of Metamucile.

YOU HAVE TO READ THE LABELS.

From Mashie:"Also some personal advice, encourage her to be knocked out and not stay awake for it".

Hi Mashie, can you add a bit more detail, both colonoscopies I had I was out like the proverbial 'dead cod', although near the end of the first when the doc was zapping polyps I was 'in the twilight zone'. i.e. confused, disoriented...

@Mashie thank you!! Knowing that you were going to go the extra mile to help us out means the world to me!

@SwitchableSusie, fortunately, I wasn't the one that picked up the wrong thing, my friend did it herself. I would have felt terrible!! A friend helped us out and I was able to go to Walmart and get her the correct stuff. I even got the brand name so there wasn't any mistakes this time (well, that and they didn't have a generic next to it, they were out!). I triple checked the generic dulcualx though!!

I hope it will go ok for her, as having ingested something with an orange color isn't really advisable.

We are a little worried about that, but it was before she started all the miralax so we are hoping it all got flushed out. Also, her doctor knew what she got, so fingers crossed, it will be ok!!!. She just got taken back about 15 min or so ago. They said it would take about an hour. That seems longer than usual. Her Doctor ?‍⚕️ is a good one here in Small Town, USA. I know they're doing an endoscopy as well and stretching her throats too. She has trouble swallowing and gets choked very easy.

Call or stop by tomorrow to talk to her if she is being sedated. I'm pretty sure this is rare, but there is a potentially serious reaction to Versed that doctors will sometimes not tell you about (this may be more of a problem with hotshot anesthesiologists than GI docs, not sure there). If she is slurring her words, incoherent, or tired call her doctors' office immediately. She may not realize there's a problem - I was pretty sure that I was "just a little tired and it will pass soon" but I wasn't, and fortunately nothing really bad happened. It was very scary (especially in retrospect - even reading this years afterwards and I feel my pulse shooting up), went on for days, and could have gone very bad.

Everything was ok today. There wasn't anything to indicate ant problems. They stretched her throat for her and did an endoscopy as well. The doctor knew about the mix up on the Metamucil vs Miralax, and it all came out ok, in the end, lol! She is fine, other than a sore throat and waking up at the end of the colonoscopy, which she said was very painful! They didn't put her back under sedation because he was almost done. I am really mad about it, but what can you do? Just make notes for next time she has one done. Thanks again for all of the help guys!!!!

I'm glad things came back OK, but too bad about the pain. I'm a bit worried about when the topic of my colon comes up because there's no way I'm risking sedation again (and no competent doctor would be likely to risk it, either). I'm thinking I might just ignore things as long as possible (I already extracted a promise from my wife not to make me do that after one of my dad's - seems like he has to have them far too often - but I'm wondering if she'll try to back out of the deal as we recently had someone close die from colon cancer), then do the CT virtual colonoscopy thing when I start getting hassled too much.

Some people say unsedated is fine, and I'm pretty sure that I have a decent pain tolerance, but others say that it hurt a lot for them and I'm not sure what all the variables are that indicate if it would be unbearable pain or just moderate cramps. I don't want to get into something I really regret and winds up making me look like a wuss.