Suprep Reviews (Page 6)
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Has anyone used the new SUPREP kit before a colonoscopy?

Would like any comments about taste, ease or side effects.

Thanks!

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First time using Suprep. All prior suggestions are great. Drink it very cold, use a large straw to avoid taste buds. And the key is prepping for the prep, no pun intended decrease your fatty food and fiber, stick to the strict Liquid diet the day before. Started working for me within 15 min. Drink only what they recommend unless you like to spend time in the Jon. Only took 1-2 hours to finish and felt pretty good the whole time. Cheers

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If I have an 830 am colonscopy, when time frames should I be taking the 1st and 2nd doses of suprep?

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I am about an hour and a half since I first took it, and I'm glad I decided to just stay on the toilet because there was a lot more cleaning out very watery, but no cramping. I'm about to get up off the toilet but stay close to the bathroom the chills have subsided and so has the headache as mentioned earlier.

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This is my first time using any kind of laxative, I am prepping for my first colonoscopy, took the first bottle at 5 p.m. in about 20 minutes later had my first bowel movement than 10 minutes after that had another bowel movement. No cramping really that test wasn't as bad as I thought. I do feel chilled since taking this so I'm glad to know I'm not alone. I had a slight headache within the first 10 minutes of taking it, but that has subsided and I still have the chills. So far it has not been horrible and that is coming from someone with a low threshold for these kinds of things.

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Going on 4 hours. NO BM yet! Next prep in 2 hours. Don't know if I can keep that awful stuff down!

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Before using the stuff, I read a bunch of reviews: The net for me was that suprep does have a 'cherry sweet/awful' taste. Cool the prep and mixing water, used room temp water for the 2 glass 16 oz followers. Drink it fast, wait about 10 minutes and then a lot of visits to the WC. Have a new roll of paper. Do it again as prescribed and that is it. It worked much better than the older stuff. After about 2 1/2 hours, the show was over each time. No cramps, headaches, vomit, etc. Just a some what unpleasant 2 days.

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This is my first experience with colonoscopy prep. I had no particular dietary precautions until the day before the test, except for avoiding foods with skins (like tomatoes) or small seeds for a few days. My doc suggests taking 1 oz. of Milk of Magnesia at bedtime the night before the day you start the prep, which I did. I also bought "extra gentle" baby wipes, "extra soft" TP and, per the doc's advice, some hydrocortisone creme. These all seem to be working well and I urge you to get all three. For me, the hardest thing has probably been the clear liquid diet, but I've managed to make that work. I really didn't have any problem drinking the first Suprep-water cocktail. I didn't even have to add the powdered Crystal Light that my doc says is ok to add. It started working in about 20 minutes. Minimal cramps, but like many others here I have felt chilled. Two hours after starting the first half of the prep I would say I'm pretty much already at "pale yellow liquid," so I have hopes that tomorrow the doc will say that I had a good prep. I have to get up at 3:30 tomorrow morning to finish the prep. I'll try to navigate my way back here to post a follow-up after it's all over, but so far I would say this is easily at least one notch better than the typical medical remark that it's "well tolerated" (which translates in English to: horrible to experience, but leaves no permanent scars).

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I took mine at about 5pm. About 20 mins later i was on the pot. It is now almost 9 pm and i am still having bloats and squirts. It cleans you out. I had a colonoscopy two years ago and prep was a killer. This is not bad. None of it is good. Regardless , it is good to your colon cleaned sometimes.

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I am a 50 year old paraplegic who normally uses digital stimulation to evacuate my bowels. When using Miramax and powerful to prep, as the doc ordered, I was nauseous and dizzy during the cleanse. Years later with my next colonoscopy prep I was the same way with the Suprep but Suprep worked so much faster and better. To combat the nausea I kept hydrated with glasses of apple juice and cold water. In 6 hours o was completely cleansed and passing clear liquid. Also talk to your doctor before the day of your procedure so that he can add meds to your IV that will reduce the incidences of feeling sick or getting infections after the fact. I WOULD RECOMMEND SUPREP TO EVERYONE. IYLT IS FAST SND EFFECTIVE.

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It tastes terrible. I don't know how I'll get through the second bottle. It started working after about 30 minutes and I've gotten sick about 30 times since. Not sure I can finish this. It's no fun!

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Just used the Suprep kit 2 days ago. I didn't think the taste was as bad as the reviews stated. Just stood there and downed the whole thing. I immediately down the two16 oz glasses of water. I sat up in my lazy-boy and watched the telly. 45 minutes later was launch time. 2nd bottle was at 2:30 in the morn. Hard part for me was no sleep. Got only 3 hours sleep between 1st bottle launches and beginning 2nd bottle.

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I will NEVER use Suprep again! Had a very violent reaction. Not sure what happened. Within 15 minutes of my first dose my abdomen pain shot up to 5+ and my left shoulder started pulsing with sharp pain. After consulting with my on-call doctor from my gastroenterologist's office we made a joint decision to continue the prep as I had blood in my stool two weeks earlier. For my past two colonoscopies over the previous 15-years I had used GoLightly. Although I do not like GoLighly at least I did not have a violent reaction. Short story long after my procedure my abdomen pain continued to be uncontrollable. I ended up in ER and being admitted to the hospital for 4-days. Fortunately my blood tests and a CT scan did not show any major issues. However, my continued shoulder pain over a week after the procedure is quite concerning. Have a follow-up appointment with my gastroenterologist but I am working to get in sooner.

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I took the 1st dose at 6 p.m. last night. Fought and tried hard to distract myself from getting sick. It took a little over an hr before I went the 1st time. Have been on and off the toilet all night and morning. I have a terrible headache and next dose is in 2 hrs at 10 a.m. I hope this goes better than the first round. Going to try a straw this time. It was cold the 1st round d but still had trouble. Had people praying for me and I think that is the only reason I didn't get sick. I will not ever do this again.

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Okay folks. Full disclosure. I was a total wimp when it came to prepping for a colonoscopy. In 2013, I was given that huge jug version, and made it only through 1/4 of the prep, and then, I could go no further. I had to cancel the surgery the next day. Feeling like I could never do it, I confirmed that notion when I took a sip of the Suprep which my wife used earlier this year (2015). I gagged just on that one sip, and thought, show's over, never gonna be able to get a colonoscopy. Well, I was goaded by my wife (bless her) to try one more time, which I just did this weekend. Proud to announce -- Success! Made it through both preps without a great deal of problem. To get ready for it, I landed on this website and read EVERYONE's prep suggestions. And then, I did my own regimen. My regimen is for those people out there, like me, who think they will NEVER get thru it. (Mind you, this weighed on my conscious for 2 years until this past weekend). The regimen I ultimately used combines a lot of the tips found on these pages (supreme thanks to all of you). Here it is in explicit detail...My first prep needed to be done at 5:00pm. One day before that time, I placed a jug of ice water in the fridge, along with the two Suprep solutions to chill them up. 4:50pm, I sliced up a lemon into eighths. I filled a small glass with clear apple juice. I put out a cap of mouthwash. I put out one 16 ounce bottle of water. And then, it was time to begin. I poured the chilled solution into the plastic cup they provide you with. I filled it with water to the 16 ounce line. I then poured that mixture into a normal glass that I use at dinnertime (the psychology here being that it wasn't a foreign, medical-looking dispenser I would be drinking from, but something I was very familiar with). I inserted a long straw I obtained from Starbucks. I poured one slim packet of Crystal Light lemonade into the concoction. (Both my nurse from City of Hope, a leading cancer institute, and my brother's nurse back in North Carolina had said this is permitted and wouldn't mess with the Suprep process). Stirred it all up. Last big piece of business, and most important: I clamped one of those potato chip bag clamps securely over my nostrils, effectively blocking out breath.

I looked like a clown, but who cares? The point was to breathe strictly thru the mouth. Taking in one to two large sips in the long straw (the long straw is recommended - the point being the more farther removed you are from the glass, the less you will smell the mixture -- that is KEY), I swallowed, then immediately bit into a lemon wedge and sucked down some of its juice. Then, quickly take a swig out of that 16 ounce open water bottle, gargle, spit, gargle, spit, and on and on, until you don't feel any liquid in your mouth. Maybe take a very small sip of that apple juice. Then, without waiting too long, step back over and take another two or so big sips of the Suprep mixture, and repeat the above methods. It's best if you're watching a TV or reading a magazine or doing something to sort of distract yourself as you go to sip. Your nostrils will more than likely fill up with mucus, so definitely have tissue handy to quickly blow it out, but don't breathe in through your nose, just clamp that sucker back again. For the first prep, it took me only 7 minutes to get the whole mixture down. For the second one, it took more like 12 (a little more difficult to do it early in the morning -- tip: if you have to do the second one around 4am, be sure to get up at 3:30 and just wake up. Watch TV, or surf the net for a moment, but WAKE UP, before doing the second prep, just to get your body ready). At the end of each prep, take a swig of that mouthwash, gurgle, gurgle, gurgle - be sure not to swallow any of it, and just spit it completely out. Polish off the rest of that open water bottle with gurgling and spitting. Get your mouth completely cleaned out. DON'T remove the clamp on your nose yet. As you attack those subsequent water bottles after each prep, try to leave that nose clamp on for about half of the time you drink the bottles. This will ensure you won't have any residual taste/smell lingering in your mouth. Well, there you have it. Sorry to be so explicit, but hopefully, for those of you who REALLY, REALLY dread this, like I did, perhaps this will be a help.

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Yes .. I have used the Suprep and it is disgusting. Tastes like a heavy metal going down. You take the first bottle with lots of water, and then the second bottle an hour or two (I don't remember exactly) later. A lot of people don't take the full dose the second time as its horrible. But, you have a movement pretty quickly. Different doctors use different preps. I wouldn't use this one again.

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This isn't a question its just a tip on how I did with Surprep.
I did very well on it. The taste wasn't all that bad. I chilled it and mixed cold water. I drank it while eating a lime popcicle. That was at 6:00 pm. Was in the bathroom within 20 mins. By 9:00 I was able to lay down and watch TV without getting up every 10 mins.
Went to bed about midnight then up at 4:00am for the second round. Same method but it seemed harder to drink this time and felt a little nauseated with a head ache.
I was able to lay down around 7:30am for an hour and a half and was at the surgery center by 10:00. Its 1:00 pm now and I am already home and eating.
Tips I would suggest would be that after every single bowl movement use diaper rash ointment. You will go through a whole tube but will have zero pain
Also relax and and go for it. Seriously It's not the end of world as I thought it would be. I was very very nervous It's only 2 days of your life and it really isn't that bad, just time consuming. Oh and 2days before the exam go really easy on your diet. Big Breakfeast, med lunch, small dinner the next day you would start your liquid diet.
I ended up having one small poloyp removed.

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My experience with the taste and tolerance of Suprep was not like many others here, It tastes like cough syrup. It took an hour to begin working, both times. I did not feel urgency, but I took my laptop with me to the bathroom and just hung out watching TV and surfing. After about two hours it was over.

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I have my colonoscopy this afternoon. I refrigerated the suprep and mixed it with cold water. Taste was manageable. Did not have a bowel movement until 40 minutes after my second dose. I developed a very bad headache along with chills and nausea. I piled on blankets to try to get warm and finally thought a hot shower would help. I must have gotten overheated because shortly after stepping out of the shower My head was over the toilet bowl with dry heaves while squirting liquid from my backside. I am not entirely sure whether or not I am cleaned out well enough to proceed with the colonoscopy or if I will need additional enemas to finish this process. This is the 2nd colonoscopy I've had and I don't remember the 1st prep being this awful. Will be so glad when this is over today.

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Soooo cold! I wonder why dose 2 causes this?

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This is my first colonoscopy and I'm just shy of 19. I had the first dose yesterday and immediately after finishing the second 16oz I started to violently vomit. Needless to say it still did it's job for 3 hours after. I just tried to hammer my second dose down -procedure is in 5 hours- and again I threw only a little uo this time, I tried my best to keep it down. Both times I've experienced the WORST chills ever. I tried to take a steaming hot bath and it was still freezing. I'm not sure if I'm throwing up because we for the past 6 months there really hasn't been anything for me to digest. So I'm not sure if I threw up due to my stomach not being able to handle it or what. I tired to call my surgeons 24 hr hotline but the dr on call was super rude about my question. I hope it's okay that I threw some up.. I've tried to read and see if it's okay but I can't find that answer anywhere.. needless to say this stuff is NASTY and the chills and vomiting aren't fun at all. This product works but the side effects are pretty hard

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