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The cleansing...

I will apologize in advanced now but just thought I would share.  I am doing a cleanse in prep for surgery on Monday.  Unfortunately, the laxative has just started kicking in.  It is going to be a lonnnnggg night.  I just hope that the cleansing process ends before Monday morning.
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I'm cleansing today too, for a colonoscopy (they think I have adhesions from previous c-sections and hysto).  So far I'm doing better than I expected, I hope you are too!

Nice to know there's someone else doing this on Mothers Day!

I brushed my teeth after I drank the stuff to get rid of the taste.  Last night's 10 oz of Magnesium Citrate actually tasted better than the Lemon/Lime Gatorade I tried to follow it up with.  But this morning's 1 oz of phosphate stuff in 7-Up made me gag.

I also weighed myself before this started, just curious to see how much I lose.  I know it will all come back, it's water weight (sigh).
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Lucky!  I had the gallon size prescription stuff that tastes like alkaselzer gone bad!  Drop by Cyber Party GreenThumbs!  Mary V
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Fortunately I was able to just something over the counter.  I took Magnesium Citrate, cherry flavor.
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It will, do you have a candy sucker or something to take the vague nasty aftertaste away?  That worked for me as I struggled through the whole dang Gallon!  MV
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