NULYTELY Reviews (POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 3350; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM BICARBONATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.2 (411 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NULYTELY with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NULYTELY | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | colonoscopy prep | nausea, vomiting | In preparation for the colonoscopy, I ate lightly two days before. The day before, I stuck to the liquid diet and took 4 Dulcolax at 3 p.m. I started the Nulytely prep at 5 p.m. I used the lemon-lime flavoring, but couldn't really taste the flavor. It was neither good nor bad. I drank 8 oz. about every 15 to 20 minutes, until about one-half way through. I then started vomiting. I got a little more down -- I think about 2/3 to 3/4 -- and then vomited every time I drank it. I stopped drinking at about 10 p.m., but had not had a BM. (At this point, I started gagging just by looking at a glass of Nulytely.) Finally, at about midnight, I had my first BM. And at about 2:00 a.m., I started eliminations for real. This lasted until about 3:30 a.m. I had to be at the hospital at 6:00 a.m., where they went ahead with the procedure, even though I wasn't entirely cleansed. The doctor said that I had a recumbent intestine, and explained that it was extra long with extra folds, so it took longer for the Nulytely to get through my system. This explained the vomiting -- the Nulytely had nowhere to go, once I had drunk the initial one-half -- as it was traveling through my system at a slower rate than I was drinking it. It also explained the period of time it took for me to have my first BM. Although the doctor found no polyps, and irrigated as he went, he said that he would rate my colonoscopy as only fair, due to the inferior cleansing of my intestines. | M | 67 | | 4/24/2009 | 2 | colonoscopy | vomiting, gagging, chills, gas | This stuff was pretty easy to get down at first. After the thrid trip to the bathroom i was so nauseus, but no where near half way done with the jug. So i kept drinking. About halfway through I was having clear bowel movements, but I also started throwing up. | M | 19 | 1 days | 5/22/2008 | 2 | colonoscopy | chills, nausea, vomiting | I agree that this is the WORST stuff to try and keep down - BLECK! I was shivering and shaking all the way through it the last time I used it (from refrigerating it), but the time before, I tried it without chilling it and that is WAY worse. Be sure and use a straw to bypass taste buds. Once the nausea and gagging begins, it gets more and more difficult to swallow - I was STILL vomiting on the way home from the colonoscopy from this. The BEST advice that everyone is giving here is to go on liquids/light diet a couple of days before the test. Remember, what goes in MUST come out and if it is mostly liquids, you will end up with clear results sooner. I have to have a colonoscopy every six months due to a history of multiple precancerous polyps, and next month I need to take this again as a prep for colon surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. I am NOT looking forward to it again, but am going to try sucking on limes or lemons between drinks. | M | 54 | 1 days | 1/12/2008 | 2 | colonoscopy | bloating and god-aweful taste | This stuff is disgusting. If you are going to ask someone to drink a gallon of anything, how can you make it taste so bad? The procedure was an absolute breeze, but the cleansing part is horrible. I would rather eat spoiled curry. Same effect...less misery. | M | 53 | 1 days | 6/8/2007 | 2 | colonoscopy prep | Bloating, nausea, chills | I had the generic Trilytely and used the orange flavoring. The first 3-4 doses went down OK, by the time I was at #10 (I believe there would be 16, 8oz doses in the 4 liters), I came close to upchucking. I stopped at 11 doses after 3 hrs. The "action" took about 2 hrs from 1st dose, and it was mostly over an hr after last dose, and things were running clear. I sucked on lemon slices between gulps. Next time I will insist on an alternative. It does the trick but is more ordeal than needed. Fleet-Phos worked fine last time, and was much easier. Supposedly, they will start prescribing it again soon, according to my pharmacist. The maker is adding something to it to avoid the problems that led to it not being in favor currently, which I was told was related to kidney problems after ingesting it (a small # of patients). | M | 54 | 1 days | 12/11/2006 | 2 | Colonoscopy Prep | Bloating, Cramping, Heavy-Feeling, Drowsy, Just plain didn't feel good. | Tossed in the pineapple flavoring and filtered water the night before and chilled @ 4 Degrees C overnight. Ate oatmeal breakfast, soup and bread for lunch, with a half a blueberry muffin. Lunch was @ 1215, had two natural BMs once in the morning and once in the afternoon. So I was kinda empty anyway. Drank Trilyte Solution, 1 8oz cup every 10-20 minutes. Got almost all of it down(1.5 cups down the drain!) before i started getting massive water cravings. Some residual solids and then it was straight hose action, out me bum! I've never experienced anything so awkward. They come at even intervals, I drank 2 cups of water and a half cup of apple juice, followed by more water throughout the night. It's 9pm now and I started @ 4:15, so it was ~5 hour "experience". Not recommended, this can't be good for anyone. REALLY wish i would have been told to do a juice/water only fast 24 hours before taking it. | M | 24 | 1 days | 10/4/2007 | 2 | colonoscopy prep | Gagging, nausea, minor vomiting, inability to keep to prescribed schedule | This is my second time taking it. 5 years ago I had it without flavoring, which was tough to choke down due to gagging. This time, I sniffed the 4 flavor packs and chose orange, which helped only a little. Still the gag reflex is there, especially when ending a drinking attempt and swallowing the last bit. Relaxation and practice helps get 3-5 swallows down before gagging, rather than on each gulp. The BEST trick I found is to swish a teaspoonful of heated clear chicken broth (I used Swanson "Natural, 33% less sodium") around in your mouth before and after each attempt. This got me 6-12 gulps per attempt before I'd feel a gag coming on, and let me drink the stuff closer to the prescribed schedule which is otherwise physically impossible. Only threw up once, just an ounce or two before I controlled it. Other tips are to force out burps after a major drink; and to rapidly bounce up and down (like a boxer jumping rope) for a minute if the stuff is bloating you rather than proceeding downward to do its business on schedule. This time, it was 95 minutes before I had to go, much longer than before. | M | 52 | 1 days 4 liters 1X day | 6/14/2010 | 1 | colonoscopy | Nausea, headache, vomitting, loose stools, severe stomach pain | I wouldn't give this to someone to torture them. This is the worst experience I have ever had in my life. When I drank that stuff it felt like I was poisoning myself. Within a few hours I had a headache, nauseated and bloated. Started throwing up around 6 hours later and that was after not even getting half of the stuff down. I tried to continue drinking, because my appointment was early the next morning, but couldn't. I threw up for two days, and almost a week later I still have stomach pain, nausea, and difficulty eating. I haven't been able to work, can finally get out of bed without feeling like I'm going to pass out, and the Dr continues to deny that I somehow reacted to this medicine. Of course they couldn't do the procedure, and so they want me to reschedule. We'll see if I can eat again. This stuff should be banned, I can not imagine ever inflicting this on anyone. | M | 47 | 1 days | 1/30/2010 | 1 | colonoscopy | Chills, nausea, pounding headache, bloated feeling in abdomen. | Doing the "split" prep. half the night before and half the morning of. The night before it went down worse w/ each glass. Didn't start evacuating til 30 min. AFTER the last glass. Up most of the night. Massive headche in the temples, back of the head and neck. Chills. Started again in the morning and got 4 glasses down and just couldn't do it any more. NASTY NASTY STUFF. BTW, I used the Lemon Lime flavor pack. ugh. | M | 49 | 2 days 2 liters 1X day | 12/10/2010 | 1 | pre colonoscopy | vomitting, nausea, chills | Horrible experience. no way in hell could I finish this. I hope I had enough to be able to take the test tomorrow, after all this torture. I was able to get in 3/4 of this stuff, that tasted like lemon lime mucousy ocean water. I vomitted twice. I thought I was pretty hard core but this made me feel wimpy. | M | 50 | 1 days | 3/7/2007 | 1 | Colonoscopy | Dizziness, nausea | Whoever invented this shit ought to be put to death. It is a horrible horrible thing. I would sooner die of rectal cancer than go through this again. Never again. | M | 41 | 1 days | 8/20/2007 | 1 | colonoscopy | vomiting, chills | This is my second experience with Nulytely. I don't know if I can ever do this again, and I'm supposed to have a colonoscopy every 5 years because my Mom had colon cancer (which she survived). I vomited up the entire 8th cup. I managed to get through about 3/4 of the jug. Hope the doc will still do the procedure. Everything seems to be running clear! | M | 55 | 1 days | 7/6/2007 | 1 | Colonoscopy prep | Nausea, chills, dizziness, head ache, motion-sickness like feeling. | I could hardly finish about 2/3 of the solution. At first it seemed tolerable, but after two thirds my gag reflexes prevented me from drinking another drop. The soapy, salty, saliva-like taste was just too much for me to finish. I started getting a bad head ache, then felt this horrible nausea and chills, and I knew that if I had one more drop I would just throw up. I called the doctor and explained. He asked if there was any solid matter and about the color of the water coming out. Since I started the day fasting there were no more solids coming out, and the water was brownish yellow. The doctor said I would be just fine and that I could get rid of the rest of the stuff. THANK GOD! | M | 41 | 1 days | 9/18/2006 | 1 | colonoscopy | Hear Ye Hear Ye--Experience of a lifetime. It gutted me out like a dead fish. I have never felt so refreshed. I feel sorry for my toilet. I found that the orange flavor tasted like the old 50/50 bars. It had a refreshing flavor and a velvety smooth texture. Delish....YAAAA RIGHT, I had the gun to my head ready to pull the trigger, I would rather drink cyanide | M | 52 | 1 days | 1/23/2006 | 1 | For a colonoscopy | HORRIBLE!!! Entire body is swollen. Can't even move ankles. Legs twice their normal size. My butt hole is inflamed & itches like crazy. Sores all over my mouth & lips. Even though I am high cancer risk I will NEVER do this prep again!!! | I started this @ 3:30 p.m. the day before & was up all night. It took over 10 hours & still could not do the last 2 cups. It even said not to but it down the sink. That should tell you how awful this is on your body!!! Very bad side effects. Started the prep Sunday & it's Wednesday & still feel bad!! Still swollen & problems with my butt. | M | 71 | 1 days 3-4 Liters 1X day | 4/25/2012 | 1 | COLONOSCOPY PREP | Gagging, Gagging, Gagging Vomit, Vomit, Vomit Did I mention gagging and Vomit | Have had to take to take this 2 times and each time it was the same gagging and vomit after taking appox, 1 oz.. Went out to Walmart each time and found over the counter laxatives each time and took them. 3 Days before each test I went on a liquid diet broth, soda, beer, coffee. Each time was told I was cleaned out good. I would rather drink a gallon of someone's urine than this crap. Took 4 Bisacodyl pills a day for 3 days prion to test. That gallon may as well have been 500 gallons to me. | M | 63 | 1 days 1 gallon 1X day | 1/4/2012 | 1 | colonoscopy | Soon after a colonoscopy procedure on 6.5.07 I became aware of fatigue and chest pressure with exercise. A primary doctor appointment was scheduled. A blood test revealed "renal insufficiency" with 2.2 Creatinine and 10.5 Hemoglobin levels. I next proceeded to a urologist and an ultrasound of kidneys, tract and bladder which revealed nothing unusual. A week later a nephrologists diagnosis was "acute not chronic renal failure" with some kidney self repair indicated by blood tests. The nephrologist questioned me on "what major medical event" had transpired since perfectly normal blood panels on 2.23.07. I had no major issues to advise and did not consider a colonoscopy as “major medical event”. The nephrologist suggested a prompt visit to a hematologist. A hematologist’s diagnosis on 7/20 was a acute kidney reaction to my colonoscopy bowel prep Nulytely (4 liters). I am now on a regimen of blood testing and a synthetic hormone, Arane | Difficult product to injest over required 4 hours. | M | 75 | 1 days | 9/18/2007 | 1 | colonoscopy | Bloating, nausea | It's been 3 hours and only a little of the horrible concoction left - and NO results! Staying near the porcelain room ..... | M | 64 | 1 days | 6/25/2007 | 1 | colonoscopy | My husband took this for a colonoscopy test WAS going to make me taste the stuff too ... After his first glass he decided that he would not make me taste it ..... | He said it tasted like DISH-SOAP. PUKED up the first glass ... had a terrible time choking down the rest .... drank aboug 3.5 liters then when he started crapping clear liquid he dumped the rest out ... then I had to give him Ducolax to make sure he was really clean ... I am certain he will NEVER EVER FRIGGIN drink this stuff again ... and there IS NO WAY IN HELL I will do this test unless I can take a pill ..... I was gagging just thinkint about it. He used the Cherry flavor pack and the flavor pack actually smelled really good !!! but you cant make SOAP taste good .... Every time he took a glass full I had to leave the room because of his gagging and he did puke up a couple of gulps NEVE EVER will I use this nor will He ever do it again .... He would rather DIE than drink this stuff again | M | 40 | 1 days | 7/13/2006 | 1 | colonoscopy prep | The nulyttely always has the same effect on me, although this time it was markedly worse. I get chills, severe chills, and the effects don't wear off. I end up wrapped in a blanket in the bathroom till morning. There has to be a better way. | M | 51 | | 3/6/2005 |