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To: Babu

Fleet Phospho Soda IS the prep I had. Yuk. It tastes so nasty it's a good thing you have to drink only a couple ounces. The problem I had was that my procedure wasn;t until mid-afternoon and the elimination part had me SO dehydrated I had a splitting headache and they couldn't get an IV started.


98 posted on 04/05/2006 4:34:17 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (( ))
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To: Trust but Verify
That's unfortunate! They should adjust those times given to take the Phospho-Soda according to what time of day your procedure is, but they don't seem to bother.

Re the taste, the Phospho Soda comes in unflavored as well as flavored -- I got "ginger lemon" I think it was. It wasn't tasty but I didn't have a problem downing it, and then I chased it with a couple of ounces of ginger ale.

Post-script to my own post #89 -- I forgot to mention: Two nights before the procedure at bedtime, I took two tiny Ducolax (sp?) laxative tabs as instructed (provided by the doc's office). That got the elimination process started, then next afternoon, the first Phospho-Soda, and so on ...

99 posted on 04/05/2006 6:43:12 AM PDT by Babu
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