PEG-3350 with Electolytes and Nausea: What Users Say

• Bub...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 16, 2019

For Bowel Preparation "I took a generic form of this PEG-3350 bowel prep, the lemon-lime. It was already flavored, so no flavor packets to deal with. (Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution) for my colonoscopy prep. Its taste is very palatable, imagine drinking a 7 Up that has gone flat. It's a mild lemon-lime flavor that's a little bit salty. Easy to drink, no gag, no holding the nose. I took an anti-nausea pill at 6 am (just in case, don't need to be expelling from both ends at the same time, LOL), started drinking the prep at 6:30 pm, and by 8 pm it was working well. At 10:30 pm I was able to go to bed and actually sleep. The second dose started at 5:30 am and was expelling every 10 to 20 minutes up until 10 am. I had to be at the surgery center by 11 am, so I was getting concerned. Just wish you didn't have to drink a gallon of it since I also had to get down an additional 64 oz of water throughout the day, plus the liquid-only diet, that's just too much liquid! I'd choose this prep again, but I'd start drinking it 2 hours earlier than recommended."

• Azu...
• April 27, 2011

For Bowel Preparation "It's really hard for me to drink it. I had only finished 4 1/2 glasses of water, and I started at 6:00 am, and right now at 9:31 am, still not drinking the half because I have to stop because I needed rest. It did make me nauseous. I'm currently waiting for myself to drink it again. I don't know if I can still do it. I hope I can."

• Vil...
• May 7, 2023

For Bowel Preparation "I’m sure that it will do the job as intended, but the first drink made me gag so much. It’s vile. Chilling it and drinking it through a straw are not helping, not sure how I am going to get through this. Would rather take the PURGO DAN & CITRO MAG. Giving it a 1 rating based on taste alone. Disgusting."

• Bad...
• June 16, 2017

For Bowel Preparation "2nd time having a colonoscopy, first time a breeze from beginning to end, even drinking the prep (TRILYTE) NO PROBLEM. Flush lasted only hours. This time the prep was PEG-3350 with Electrolytes, horrible. Why? Flavored unnecessary, very heavy, the combination made me nauseous, bloating, distended belly. I was RUNNING to the bathroom 2 days later, my stomach has never stopped rumbling and growling. I have little to no appetite. Took the prep on Tuesday, today is Friday and I still feel ill."