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 |
| 1 | Colonoscopy prep | nausea | first off make sure you read up on tips before you take the prep. Im doing the prep right now and im wishing i had a lemon wedge and some 7 up. Just the smell of this horrid bottle and i am gagging. There is a pill though and its called osmo prep i was told it works after i bought this lovely container. my procedure is in the morning and i have half 1 liter left. I am nineteen and i am not wishing for anymore of these god awful containers ever again. Good luck to those who are about to take it... time to drink up :) | F | 19 | 1 days | 10/26/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy prep | mild chills & nausea; took one gasX capsule and held nose when drinking 8 8oz glasses with lime slice chaser & lots of liquids as well but NO CLEANSING just four small bms despite 2 stool softeners and one enema to try to get things going | I remember my mother had eight feet of her colon removed at one point and I think I must have similar extra long & wrinkly colon as well since this stuff isn't having desired results wish my doc only charged me $30 for not being able to have procedure I think it's $150 instead, but I did prep as he requested, why is it my fault it isn't working? | F | 56 | 1 days | 10/5/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy prep | Stomach pain, nauseau, strong urge to vomit | This should be illegal. No one should be made to ingest this stuff - cruel and unusual punishment. It did the trick but NEVER again. They say every 10 years - not on your life. I agree with the person who said "NuLytely or die - a tough decision." | F | 65 | 1 days | 10/1/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy | throwing up, gas, major nausia. | I got so sick from this my colon didn't empty all the way. The doctor had to "clean" things out with water. This was my second time having to use this. I couldn't choose another way of doing it. Believe me, if I have a choice if I have to do it again. I'm NOT taking it!! | F | 36 | 1 days | 9/26/2009 | 1 | Yes, this is my first experience. | Nausea, vomiting, bloating, and did not go running non stop into the toilet like most people. This is pure hell. | The person who invented this liquid is masochistic. He should be tied to a chair and given five liters of this vile liquid, Crystal light or not, it does not make a difference, so that he can experience the horrible suffering he is inflicting on those who have to drink it. | F | 53 | | 9/18/2009 | 1 | Colonoscopy prep | I experienced extreme nausea while attempting to drink the prep. I had a colonoscopy approx. 12 years ago so I knew to expect this. I had consumed 3/4 of the bottle and after 3 hours still had not gone to the bathroom! I was on the verge of vomiting and refused to drink any more. TO make a very long story short--I took the laxatives as directed also. I finally started to have some movement but not what should have been happening. At 6:30 am --an hour before I was expected to arrive at the hospital I still had not gone enough. I called th e doctor and we had to cancel the procedure. I was out $30 which I had to pay out of pocket. | I had even taken laxatives the night before I started clear liquid diet because I take narcotics on a regular basis for chronic pain and was concerned that if I did not keep up my high fiber regime what might happen. I wish that my saga ended there! I was sick all that day but still never experienced clear liquid bowel movement. I slept all of that day and night--highly unusual for me. 3 weeks have gone by and I have not been right since! I still am not having regular bowel movements even though I have increased my fiber intake and have taken bisacodyl every day and then every other day. A week ago I had diarrhea for several hours but still not significant to clean out all that was in me! I have refused to use this prep again! But I am still concerned that my bowels are not back to normal. I never expected anything like this. My prep 12 years ago was with golytely which made me vomit but did the job! Has anyone else had an experience like this? I would love to hear from you if you have! | F | 53 | 1 times | 9/11/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy | With Half-Lytely -- Projectile vomiting after the first two glasses. Tried again and had projectile vomiting after the next two. When I called my Dr., he asked me why I didn't like it! He said, "you don't like the taste?" I told him it was slimy and he didn't seem to understand my problem. I am switching doctors and will go with a different regimen. | If you tend to gag easily, don't take this stuff. Believe me, I tried to tough it out. I rinsed my mouth out with tiny bit of Peppermint Schnapps after each glass with no luck. I tried to hold it back, I really did. I'm not a whiner but that stuff was, as one person said it, "full hose out me mouth!" | F | 55 | | 6/3/2009 | 1 | vomiting, chills | Horrible, absolutely horrible. I will never do this again. It took me 7 hours to get it all down, while i threw up 3 times. People at my house can sit there and tell me to hurry up and drink another glass.. I wanted to throw them through a wall. There is no way someone can drink 8oz every 10 mins until its gone; THATS IMPOSSIBLE. When i finally had a bowel movement I pooped for like 30 minutes straight. I was on a clear liquid diet so it was hardly any stools. I feel bad for my toilet. I agree with the people that said the doctors should drink this once a year. My doctor acted like it would be easy to drink.. what a lie! | M | 21 | 1 days | 5/28/2009 | 1 | Colonoscopy | gagging, nausea, bloating, homicidal thoughts, explosive anal discharge | First off, let's dispense with the notion that there is any need or benefit to eating "a low-residue diet" on the days leading up to this. Maybe it will make you feel virtuous but... It does not matter what you ate – it's coming out. Every last bit. And then you will shoot neon-yellow water for several HOURS after the last fleck of solid matter is a dim and distant memory. All well and good, the good Doctor needs to see clearly. That being said, there is no excuse for this vile preparation. My friends in the UK take some pills, and then drink lots of water. Same wonderful effect. So why are we here in the U.S. comdemned to drinking quarts of urinal cleaner? Some type of Klingon rite of passage? Puritanism? Self-flagellation? And if that's not bad enough, find their web-site where they gush (heh) about how their wonderful product comes in "3 great-tasting flavors" and is "well-tolerated". Yeah, right. Mussolini was well-tolerated. Whatever you do, don't avoid the Colonoscopy! But please, Doctors, Drug companies, FDA people – can't we have this stuff mix in our bellies instead of in the plastic jug? Let's stop pretending about "great-tasting flavors" and "well-tolerated". I don't even want to know what point of reference you'd need to make those statements true. In the meantime, your doctor is going to prescribe this stuff; lucky you. Use a straw as far back in your throat as you can muster. This | M | 49 | 1 days | 5/5/2009 | 1 | Colonoscopy prep | just an extreme urge to vomit | This is absolutely the most disgusting thing I've tried in my life. I am actually drinking it right now and I can't get myself to finish the last glass. It is not so much the taste itself but the texture is thick and does taste salty. I want to gag every time I taste it. I have to drink half the gallon today and the other half tomorrow morning and I am already extremely worried about the other half. I've been drinking it for two hours already and have only had one BM. Well it has to be done so Ugghhh...here I go again... | F | 21 | | 4/28/2009 | 1 | Colonoscopy Prep | Nausea. Violent vomiting (sore abs for days afterwards). | My first experience was a failure. I drank it quickly, 2 liters in 1/2 hour (lemon-lime). Going down, it wasn't great, but not completely horrible. I had it ice cold and chased it with apple juice to cleanse the palate which seemed to work very well. Then I sat and played video games for the next 2 1/2 hours waiting for it to work. During that period I gradually began to experience heartburn and started burping up tiny amounts of the now body-temperature and increasingly vile-tasting fluid. I distinctly remember thinking "5 years between colonoscopies may not be enough time to forget this taste" At the 2 1/2 hour mark I felt the intense urge to vomit and as far as I could tell, the entire two liters came up in three violent convulsions. The lemon-lime flavor is *much* worse coming up than going down. After that experience, there was no way I was even going to attempt to drink the second 2 liters...plus, I didn't think that would be enough to "cleanse" me. | M | 50 | 1 times | 3/12/2009 | 1 | Prep for colonoscopy | Body-shaking chills, gagging, nausea, vomiting | Dreadful stuff. Within a few minutes of drinking the first cup, I felt chilled. Over the course of the afternoon and early evening, I experienced episodes of shaking throughout the body. Despite crawling fully clothed into bed and piling on the blankets, I was unable to warm up completely until about six hours after I downed the last of the medication. The gagging started about one-quarter of the way through. By three-quarters the nausea was well along. I was unable to drink the last six ounces and later vomited at least eight ounces. Fortunately, I was able to ingest enough to allow for a successful colonoscopy yesterday. I have no confidence at all that I have the capacity to tolerate this again. | F | 60 | 1 days | 3/11/2009 | 1 | Colonoscopy prep | 1 1/2 to 2 hour delay before any action, then was still working way past bedtime. Horrible gas and cramping pains. Became nauseated after drinking about 2/3 of the liquid (which I mixed with 2 little buckets of Crystal Light pink lemonade mix at my doctor's suggestion). There was no way I could have finished it all. It has now been 6 days since the colonoscopy and 7 days since the prep and I am still suffering from loose stools, gas, stomach and gut pain and tenderness, and a horrific amount of burning, stinging and itching around my anus. | This mixture should come with warnings and directions about using petroleum jelly around the entire area as another respondent mentioned. In addition, it is ridiculous to assume that everyone would require the same amount of this mixture. I, for instance, am a 64 year old woman who weighs 118 pounds. I should not be expected to need the same amount of prep as a man who weighs 300 pounds. | F | 64 | 1 days | 2/23/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy | They should bottle this nasty stuff as an exfoliator. I have fairly tough hide but this made my backside look and feel like a piece of beef steak. It did not matter what I tried it hurt. It hurt to walk or sit. I was even using 20% benzocaine. This lasted for 48 hours. My gut area was so sore after the cleanse. I also looked like I was 4 months pregnant. I could not sleep because of the pain. It will be a cold day in H... before I would use or recommend this stuff! My doctor is going to get an ear full also. | F | 54 | 1 days | 2/11/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy | headache nausea | Worst stuff in the world. Never again will I go that route of torture. | M | 41 | 1 days | 1/27/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy | nausea, bloating | I won't take this stuff again. I ate almost nothing solid yesterday, but after 3.5 hours, all I am is sick. Right not, I swallow a bit and puke it back up. Gotta be a better way - don't use this method. | M | 49 | | 1/4/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy | nausea | Slimey substance--I managed to get through it and I STILL wasn't cleaned out enough--I have go through this AGAIN! I followed the instructions--I have never disobeyed doctor's orders, but I will not take this particular prep again. | M | 46 | 1 days | 12/28/2008 | 1 | colonoscopy prep | nausea, bloating, chills | So very uncomfortable to drink! I couldn't finish it-only got thru half the gallon. Luckily I was cleaned out by then. I had to suck lemons/limes, drink cola, hold my breath, and eat bites of jello in between drinking the vile stuff. Using a straw really helped. Try some other prep if you can. This worked but I would never do it this way again. | F | 49 | | 11/26/2008 | 1 | colonoscopy at 33 for unknown issue | Drank 70% of solution with no results. Peed a few times and that was it! Either the medicine doesn't work or it has diagnosed my problem for me. | M | 33 | | 11/4/2008 | 1 | colonoscopy | bloating, hoarseness, red rash | I drank 3/4 of Nulytely cold as directed. Horribly sweet. After 4 hours of taking it, I noticed hoarseness and red rash. Took Benadryl. Up most of the night pooping. Diapers are indeed an option. Next time I'll take pills and Mag Citrate. | F | 61 | | 10/29/2008 |