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 | mild chills, bloating | I'll agree with mostly everyone- this stuff sucks. But you just have to buck up and be a soldier. I'm right in the middle of my jug, and now wish I hadn't found this site to do any reading. Definitely give yourself more time than 3/4 hours- you are going to want to go at your own pace if you have bad gag reflexes. I am just waiting for everything to be clear- then NuLetely, you are down the drain! | F | 23 | 1 days | 3/30/2007 | 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 | Very nausious for many hours after drinking the liquid mixture. Flavor was not bad, but I was very sick. The colonoscopy took almost an hour as I'm petite and had the bad luck of having an extra long colon according to the doctor. Today, the day after, I have bloating and pain after eating my first large meal. The procedure itself was painful, and doctor stated that this was due to my size and the number of curves. One polyp was removed and craters were discovered in my colon. | F | 42 | 1 days | 10/4/2006 | 3 | Colonoscopy Prep | WHY does it taste SALTY? And it is somehow a thick or slimy sensation going down. I have zero gag reflex issues and I never vomit but this stuff gagged me and made me wretch. Half of this concoction may be realistic, but the entire JUG? My gut bloated and burgled and it made me belch long before it started clearing me out. And what is this FLAVOR PACKET others mentioned? My jug said lemon lime on it. I got no flavor packet or choice of flavor. I tried putting Apple flavor mio drops in it. That's the only way I have gotten 2/3 down. It's 1 a.m and I doubt I will get any sleep tonight. | Someone PLEASE come up with something that isn't salty!! | F | 50 | 1 days Huge Jug | 5/17/2016 | 3 | Colonoscopy prep. | Tastes disgusting. I thought I was going to throw up. | F | 46 | 1 days | 4/27/2016 | 3 | Colonscopy/EGD | Bloating & fullness | This is my second attempt at Nylytely... the first was 4 years ago, and I simply could NOT do it. Thanks to the wisdom of my Dr, I added Crystal Lite Lemonade to each glass (I think it's safe to say I'll never drink Lemonade again!!!). I'm just over 1/2 way done and I've only had 2 small bowel movements - worried I won't be cleared by morning (It's been 2 hours since I started). I had to slow down the drinking due to the fullness and being too close to throwing up - not going to let that happen, I've come too far!!!!! Hopefully I'll be clear enough to get a diagnosis tomorrow. | F | 27 | 1 days 4000 1X day | 10/27/2013 | 3 | Colonoscopy | Bloating and severe nausea after 5th glass. | I wish they could come up with something different. I was doing fine till after the 5th glass when I became bloated, nauseaous and started throwing up in my throat with any movement. It took about 2 hours for it to finally start working its way through so I could drink more. Its sad to have to use 2 vacation days for such misery. I used the lemon lime flavor on recommendation from the pharmacist. I only got 3/4ths through the nulytely and couldnt stomach anymore but I was fully cleaned out. I do recommend, vaseline before your bum gets raw, cottonelle wipes and adult diapers for when you are so tired and need to go to bed. My prep was worse I think because I have Fibromyalgia and the pain pills were going straight through so I was hurting badly. When I got there and they started my IV they gave me some IV Benadryl that made me feel very dizzy, pressure in my chest and I couldnt talk or walk right. I dont see anyone else complaining of that experience. Once I got to the room they gave me another medicine in my IV that put me right to sleep and I didnt know a thing till they said I was done. Now that it is over I have no idea how I got dressed. lol I have a friend in another state who had to take Miralax mixed with Gatorade instead of the Nulytely and she said it wasnt bad. Despite the misery I would do it again as it could save your life. I know a very rich influential man who died because he wouldnt do a colonoscopy and he got colon cancer. | F | 51 | 1 days 1/2 gallon 2X day | 10/21/2013 | 3 | colonscopy | My first colonoscopy - so far not a great deal of fun. Used the orange flavoring which was not too bad. It is the salty flavor/smell that drove me crazy. Got 4 glasses down in about 75 minutes. It took me 10 to 15 min to drink each glass- so just constant drinking. I couldn't bring myself to chug it! Got thru 2 more glasses (half way there!) felt extremely bloated and on the verge of losing it. Tried to do another glass and lost it to gagging and vomiting. Terrible feeling when one literally blows all that hard work! Had been emptying and thinking I might be able to quit and not finish the rest. Now I lost too much of the fluid to get the job done. Felt extremely chilled and like a loser. Took a break for an hour. Drank 2 more glasses. Felt that urge to toss again so stopped and went to bed. Quit while I'm ahead mentality! Slept for a few hours, it is now 2 AM - I feel quilty about not finishing the jug and am not running clear yet. Just downed 2 more glasses. Have even | F | 57 | 1X day | 3/2/2012 | 3 | Colonoscopy | Vomiting because stomach was too full. | I had heard that one man couldn't stand to cherry taste of anything after cherry nulytely so I chose pineapple because I could stand to cut that out if needed. I also used a straw based upon another patient's comments. I found the straw super useful. I still had to taste the stuff (which seemed to taste worse the more I drank) but the straw put it closer to my throat so I didn't have to taste as much. The taste makes it hard to drink and I'm sure this would be true with any flavor but I think some flavor would better than no flavor. I found that after 3 glasses I immediately threw up because it was too much for my stomach. When I switched to smaller glasses this was no longer an issue. Don't get me wrong, the product works like it's supposed to but there is nothing pleasant about it. My procedure was two weeks ago and every once in a while out of nowhere I will get that taste in my mouth and it is gross. If I have to do it again I will see if I can take a pill instead. My main complaint is the terrible taste. If it tasted decent the trowing up and feeling too full wouldn't matter so much. Overall effective but gross/unpleasant. | F | 24 | 1 gallon 1X O | 2/28/2012 | 3 | Colonoscopy Prep | Extreme bloating and failure to eliminate for the frist three hours. Very uncomfortable | I have done a prep in the past but it was with pills and liquids. This did not start taking effect for three hours and it became almost impossible to put any more in my distented stomach. At that point I lengthened the time between glasses. It took me 4 hours to drink the gallon. When I finally did start eliminating, i never really felt any cramps or urges, just started to run out. It would have been better if I had known that this effects people in many differnet ways. All the instructions say you will start eliminating after one hour, or three glasses, so when three hours pass and you feel like you are going to burst, you wonder if this is normal. I did not find the taste as bad as having to take so much liquid in such a short span. I believe if you start eliminating sooner you don't get the uncomfortable bloat. And in the end I was not on the throne that much. Again, I would have felt better if I had been given more information. | F | 67 | 1 days 4 litres 1X day | 8/7/2011 | 3 | Colonoscopy prep | intestinal growling, over full feeling, extended bowel movements well past when stool was clear, then followed by evacuating much gas when fluid was finally evacuated out. | Did what it was supposed to (along with the 3 Bisacodyl tablets at the start): it cleared the colon for colonscopy, which ended up giving me good news: no polyps. That's the good news. And while not pleasant to drink, it was tolerable. Five years ago I used Fleet Phospho-Soda for the prep, and I didn't feel nearly this bad. I am told the Fleet option is no longer used because of potential kidney side-effects, but the nurse told me today that if I remember to say five years from now how unpleasant Nulytely had been, there still may be some other alternatives. Basic problem with Nulytely was that I was evacuating clear stools for 5 hours after the last cup, even though various literature had said expect 1 to 2 hours, maybe 4. Then, after the 5 hours, I still had the urge to evacuate, almost all night, but there was nothing left but gas. And out it came, again and again. Meantime I had unpleasant intestinal feelings and sounds. Part of the difficulty may have been that under instructions from my doctor, I took all 4 liters, just piling down the liquid to evacuate, even though the watery stool was totally clear by about 3 liters. I have read elsewhere that if that is the case you can stop there, but my doctor's clerical person crossed out that language and said "finish entire gallon." So I did. And it just kept coming out and coming out, and left me feeling very poor. Again, though, the product did its job, and the result of the colonoscopy was good. | M | 60 | 1 days 4 liters 1X day | 6/3/2011 | 3 | Abdominal Pain and Bloating | At first, it wasn't that bad, but after an hour and a half and no BM, I was about to explode. Finally the BM, and the nausea, the cramps, and finally puking. I made it through 3/4 of the hell water and said enough. This was worse than what got me here. For me, this was painful, and I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I'm not one of the lucky ones I guess, as some had no after affects at all. | M | 49 | 1 days 1 litre 1X day | 10/13/2010 | 3 | clean out colon | AS EXPECTED | First add crystal light to the mixture. It is better than the flavors that come with it. Get it really cold. Next use a thin wine glass . Crystal is best because it is thin. It really will make a bigger difference than you can imagine. Cut up a lemon and remove the seeds. Now bite the lemon and HOLD YOUR NOSE until you drink the glass. It will make a difference in getting it down. Then bite the lemon again. Return the thin glass to the freezer until the next dose.I hope that this helps you. | F | 55 | 1 days 30 1X day | 10/12/2010 | 3 | barium enema prep | bloating, overall fatigue | this stuff is not fun to drink, in my case i didnt have a lot in my bowels from the day before so i didnt need to drink the entire gallon before i was having the completely watery bm's. the stuff tastes really salty and i gagged a few times trying to chug it down. the flavor packets dont help much but im sure they are better than not using them at all. it definetly did what it was supposed to do though in turning your bowel movements to a pale yellow liquid. overall i would have to say that drinking this stuff for an entire day was the worst moment of my life so far. i know it says to drink 8oz every 20 minutes but honestly if you start to feel too full, just wait until you feel somewhat better to drink more because it will make you gag trying to down more of this stuff. good luck to anyone who has been prescribed this stuff, not a fun experiance. | M | 21 | 1 days 1 gallon 1X day | 8/31/2010 | 3 | Colonoscopy | Did not flush me out completely. Did not start going until after my 3 hours of drinking were done. Kept going following morning and after procedure. Some chills, no nausea or vomiting. Colonoscopy was worse! | So I took the generic, Gavilyte, which has the same active ingredients. The Doc told me to mix it up in the am on the day before my procedure. I was to drink the entire gallon (i think it was a gallon) from 5-8pm. Honestly, I did not think it had a weird smell or texture. I mixed each 8oz does with either 1/2 packet crystal light or with chicken broth. The taste was fine. Straws help. I started gagging a little bit into the 2nd hour, but I think if you drink a massive amount of anything you will gag. I finished about 8/10 of the bottle, as I just couldn't suck it all down in the time allotted. I had mild cramping and some chills, but no nausea or vomiting. I didn't start going until 8pm, when I finished the med. From there it went from 8 to about 11:30 when I went to bed. In the morning it continued, even at the surgery center. I never felt like I got completely clean though. When I woke up from the procedure, they said they had to flush me out since I did not get rid of all the matter. I was in a lot of pain from them pumping in air and taking biopsies. Literally I was in tears all the way home, until I got in my bed and let go of some gas. Ultimately, the med isn't as bad as many make it out to be! | F | 25 | 1 days 1 gallon 1X day | 8/21/2010 | 3 | colonoscopy prep | bloating for sure and at the end a little gagging but it works and that what they want. | was dreading the prep as most do. Could not finish 4 liters probably had 15 8oz glasses before gagging. Tastes like seawater. Was starving most of the time despite having chicken broth to dull the taste. Health pros now tell me if stomach is distended to wait a little longer to finish the stuff instead of trying to follow a 15 min wait. My colonoscopy found a bunch of benign polyps and the procedure was a breeze. It's the prep that I dread doing again in 3 years. Four liters is just too much and I was up to midnight and didn't get but 4 hours sleep for a 8am appt. I put this off for years but am glad to finally have it done with.....either results with benign or pre cancerous it is good to know as early as possible. | M | 62 | 4 liter 1X day | 7/7/2010 | 3 | Colonoscopy | Puking | Awful taste. As soon as I began the first sip I immediately threw it right back up. I tried to give it some time and try again, and eventually I threw it up once again. I eventually tried to mix it with Sprite and Ginger Ale and drink from a straw after sucking on a Lemon. It only helped a little. I'm only glad the day before prep I didn't eat after 4pm so I didn't have as much to get through my system. I would recommend a light diet the day before prep this way the prep isn't as bad. Used Dulcolax and an Enema to get my bowels cleaned and it was sufficient enough. Good luck to anyone taking this poisen. | M | 28 | 1 days 1X day | 2/17/2010 | 3 | Colonoscopy | Nausea, bloating, vomiting, thoughts of suicide--just kidding! | OMG---I thought I could do this because I have a strong will. I am sad to say that I only could finish 1.5 liters-about half. I say half because I ended up throwing up the little more than half that I drank. It came premixed with orange flavoring, but I could not taste any flavor in it. I started off drinking it down pretty fast, but it gradually ended up subsiding to looking at the glass and trying to hold back my gag reflexes. I almost wanted to take a match to my tongue to dull the pain I had from drinking this. I just could not finish this thing. I tried biting lemons..it helped somewhat. I later saw other posts about mixing with Crystal light...I should of tried it. I ate light the night before and had a big grand slam breakfast early morning; the day of the dreaded Nulytel. I did not drink enough water during this day..I should of drank more; I was at work. At around 4, I took 4 ducolax and mixed my Nulytel. Before I started, I had a nice big, smooth BM. I started the chum drink around 6ish and started off well. I seemed so bloated and full and I tried to drink more, but I felt it was backed all the way up to my esophagus...I finshed about halfway around 9ish and decided to call it the night after throwing up from it and holding back my gag reflexes when I thought of it or stared at the full glass of it. I started off drinking it at room temp. and later chilled it and I think it was worse tasting when I did so. I did have some watery movements 3-4 times duri | M | 39 | 1 days | 1/14/2010 | 3 | Colonoscopy prep | mild bloating, slight chills | Not quit as bad as I thought it would be. I put some in a 2 quart pitcher with a bunch of lemonade drink powder and that helped tremendously. | M | 22 | 1 days | 11/10/2009 | 3 | Colonoscopy | No side effects | Taste bad, and 4 liters seems like way to much, but I was able to drink it down. The idea of using a lemon to cover the taste worked nicely. I drank down each 8 oz dose, squeezed a little lemon juice on my tongue. Whoever left that idea--thanks to you. I had my colonoscopy this morning. I don't take any meds to put me sleep. This is my third time and the pain was fairly intense compared to the first two times. I think the doc pumped more air into my colon than before. For those who are interested in going this route here is some info: the first few minutes, and the last few minutes of the procedure are the most uncomfortable. The time in between is not bad. The whole procedure usually last 15 to 25 minutes. When the pain comes I do deep breathing and know it won't last much longer. Pulps come out without pain. This time around I didn't have any pulps. The first two time I did. I focus on the TV and ask questions. The doc and nurses are happy to talk and answer questions. Usually their patience are asleep, so they get a kick out of having someone watch the TV and talk with them during the procedure. For those who are doing it for the first time. Don't be concerned. The prep is the worst part. My brother wouldn't get a colonoscopy and as luck would have it he got got colon cancer. Beat it, then it spread to his liver, beat it again. He just finished chemo. It aged him 10 years. This site is great. Thanks to whoever put it together. | M | 62 | 1 days | 9/2/2009 |