Total Clean-out Preps

I discovered a new lax. It call plenvu.

This laxative really melt your bowel, no one have the chance to win. It will clean you out completely and a loootttt!! Love it!

I discovered a new lax. It call plenvu.

This laxative really melt your bowel, no one have the chance to win. It will clean you out completely and a loootttt!! Love it!

Isn’t that a prescription bowel prep drug for colonoscopies?

Isn’t that a prescription bowel prep drug for colonoscopies?

Yes it is, but is a very deep cleaning laxative!

I'll be taking Plenvu for a colonoscopy prep later this month. Was told this is the “best” prep for kidney issues. Any tips or first hand experiences will be appreciated.

Plenvu is petty similar to GoLytely or CoLyte

All are composed of a huge dose of PEG3350 (Miralax) which softens poo… a lot, to the point of soup in fact… and washes out you bowel.

It also has a dose of Sodium Sulfate… Glauber's Salt… which is a bad tasting, very old, saline laxative that stimulated you colon and strongly pushed everything out. Very urgently.

All have other minor ingredients for taste and electrolyte balance.

Although I've not tested them, they all probably do petty much the same thing in roughly the same time. Make you do a lot of very loose, soupy poo, followed by clear, yellowish water.

How can I take a lot of PEG?

I'll explain the problem I would like to be able to drink at least 3 liters of miralax but after a liter I start to feel nauseous. In your experience, is it better to drink as much as possible immediately or drink slowly?

@Mara90

Don't try to drink it all a once. Drink a glassful (250ml) every 15 to 30 minutes. Whether it takes 4 or 8 hours to get it all down, you'll still poo a lot.

Also, if you take the 4 Dulcolax pills a few hours before stating the Miralax, the pooing should start sooner, and once the pooing starts the nausea usually goes away.

As a ‘veteran’ of 6 colonoscopies, the best advice I’ve found is to use a diaper rash cream during the prep. I tried this with the last colonoscopy and it eliminated the anal soreness caused by the discharge and repeated wiping. I believe the petroleum based product works best.

@John_boy

Diaper cream does help.

The first and sometimes the second poo usually have a bunch of solids in it. This usually requires toilet paper for cleanup But after the poo becomes soupy, you can stop using the paper and switch to a bidet bottle, filled with warm water to wash the area, then pat, not wipe, to dry. They are under $10 on-line. Select one with a snout at least 7" - 10" long, for easier access to you anal area while sitting on the toilet.

For a better cleanup, I add a bit of Summer's Eve Feminine Wash. It's a detergent for cleaning mucous areas.

Thanks, Sean. I’ll try this as my next colonoscopy is at the end of the month.

Could we arrange a day where we do colon prep together?

Trying picoprep today, let's see how my diaper will hold up😁

My last colonoscopy was a little over a year ago. I downed the usual prep formula, which did the job for the most part. However, at 2:30 am on the morning of the procedure, I was experiencing some bloat and couldn't sleep. So I got up and took care of that problem with a couple of large enemas (4qts each). Not only was the bloat gone, I felt more rested and was able to go back to sleep.

The procedure went OK, but the doc found a couple of small pockets in the colon wall. Not full-on diverticulitis, but he wanted me on a high fiber diet. I've been eating the Metamucil wafers a few times a day, almost every day, since that colonoscopy. We'll see if that address the issue during the next procedure.

Update: you might leak😅 Overall not bad, but enemas are more fun.

There are some great ideas here!

Especially adding the Glauber's salt!

Maybe that will make a good mid-point cleanse(6 months since the year-end cleanse)

Especially adding the Glauber's salt!

Pay attention to the dosage for this may lead to problems with the kidney.

The first time they had me do Dulcolax tablets early afternoon and then Fleet liquid mixed with ginger ale in the evening followed by another whole liter of ginger ale and Fleet liquid early the next morning. Vile stuff and it was years before I could even think about drinking ginger ale. For the last one it was the Dulcolax tablets again, but instead of the Fleet liquid with ginger ale it was Miralax mixed with 7-up. Much better tasting or at least relatively so. Still drinking that much liquid I swear that I could hear sloshing when I walked.

My recent cleaning was 4 dulcolax tablets at noon. At 5 pm, i drank a 2 qts of gatorade with about 300 grams of mirolax powder mixed in. 8 ounces every 15 minutes until it was gone. No cramping to speak of and i was cleared out by bedtime, although the effects lasted until about 9 the next morning.

Back in the early winter I went through a complete clean out .. it consisted of no solid food.. a bottle of magnesium citrat.. yuk! 6 dulcolax tablets two days before the test; 250 mg of mirolax mixed in 32 ounces of Gatorade Twice.. followed by 6 more dulcolax tablets. The morning of the test I had wife give me 3 enemas as well. I was clean as a whistle.

@miker

Interesting. I thought 6 Dulcolax tablets wee not ordered any more. Yeas ago, I had the 6 tablet prep and the camping was petty intense. Six tablets is a very powerful laxative dose… not for the faint of heart

In Germany I have read of the following procedure for a Clean-out Prep: During three days early in the morning a good dose castor oil and exclusively liquid nutrition.

We started fasting 2 days before our enema session,,we take our enemas on Sunday morning so starting Friday night we eat much lighter like fruit yogurt and lots of liquid,,,we both find it much better for deep cleaning ,,this Sunday morning I was able to take on my fist enema a full 4qt very thick soapy enema,, I usually would only be able to take 2 to 3qt on my first enema,

and find to be able to achieve a clear exspell after my 2nd soapy enema,this Sunday morning on my 4th enema my wife was able to get me to take very close to 6qt of sea salt and baking soda mix as im taking my enema she will pour water into the open top enema bag .

so try fasting a day or 2 before

I limit full cleanses to no more than once every 3 months

There is an annual cleanse between Christmas and New Year since 2019.

For that, We have been using home-made generic of Suprep.

Just as I saw this my husband and I were discussing changing the formula this year.

What we are considering is using a large bottle of Miralax (Actually Generic) Adding a rounded teaspoon of Glauber's salt and a rounded teaspoon of table salt. Dissolving that in 64 ounces of water, and refrigerating it overnight. In the morning starting out with 30 mg bisacodyl and then about an hour later, starting the cleaning solution, and trying if possible to get it all down in 2-2-½ hours.

We have not decided on that yet and we may yet comer back to the familiar. I have heard that a higher percentage of people vomit from that mixture than from Suprep.

Also, Suprep at least makes you feel like you have to “go” so you can run to the toilet and get there without making a mess. I'm told that mixture just starts flowing uncontrollably!

That's WHY no decision has been made yet!

As I have done more research I can't help notice that all of the preps, whether or not they use PEG 3350, virtually all use Sodium Sulfate.

The dosage seems to vary but that is the common thread.

Essentially buy a large bottle of Miralax.

Pour the whole thing into a 64 oz bottle.

Add a rounded teaspoon of Sodium Sulfate, and a rounded teaspoon of non-iodized table salt(sodium chloride)

Shake that up.

Add the water

Shake well again.

Refrigerate overnight

When you are ready to start your cleanse take 20 mg Dulcolax(bisacodyl)

Wait about an hour.

Then start drinking the prep.

This should be functionally equivalent to any of the prescription prep.

@LisaK

Glauber's Salt, aka Sodium Sulfate, is an olde time, saline laxative. It was discovered in the 1600s in Hungarian spring water, which were apparently pretty laxative.

It is petty much an enema, given by mouth, carrying water into you colon which makes you poo. The stuff tastes petty bad and can be quite difficult to get down, but if you can drink the full dose, it'll petty much empty out you GI tract. The pooing can start in as soon as 30 minutes.

The commercial, large volume, bowel preps are a combination of a laxative, like Glaubet's Salt, a large dose of poo the softener PEG-3350, and electrolytes.

What is the difference or benefits between using Glauber's Salt or just using Epson salts?

I have never herd of mixing Glauber's Salt and table salt with meralax sounds interesting.

My recipe isn't much different than others. On an empty stomach 2 or 3 dulcolax tabs with water or gatorade when I feel the cramps just starting 2 or 3 more dulcolax with water 20 minutes later, I start drinking a mix of 2 quarts of water mixed 2 tablespoons of epson salts

Pay attention in taking a saline solution: Especially in the case of a false dosage of Epsom salt the kidney may collapse.

My question to all of those doing the “complete cleanouts”: How long after your cleanout does it usually take to produce a normal bowel movement once again?

@1ofmany

Epsom Salt is Magnesium Sulfate. Glauber's Salt is Sodium Sulfate. Both are strong saline laxatives and a full dose can often have someone pooing soup within an hour.

Glauber's Salt tastes worse than Epsom Salt, but neither tastes good. Either can upset your electrolyte balance. Don't exceed the dosages.

Glauber's Salt is not much used any more. AFAIK, it's only used in some bowel preps, like GoLytely… the PEG carries lots of water (a gallon) into your bowel to soften and liquify the poo and the Glauber's Salt makes you poo it out… rapidly and strongly.

@KennyT

After a ‘complete cleanout’ you probably won't poo at all for about two days and it usually takes me several more days to be really back to normal, but it mostly depends on you normal bowel transit time. If you usually poo every couple of days, the above is about typical. If you poo after every meal, te times will likely be shorter.

Even after a good series of “Enemas till clear” of 2+quarts soapsuds and warm water, it can take a couple of days before you have to poop again. Always at least a full day.

So with something like a colonoscopy clean-out it can take 3-4 days. That's to be expected.