Gatorade flavor for colonoscopy

Orange should be ok, red stuff can be mistaken for blood during the scope so they want you to avoid that. I'm getting lemon flavor.

Thsnks I have a six pack of the orange gatorade and 4 bottles of the 710 ml of lemon gatorade which incidently is almost 3 cups in a bottle. I started the fluids today, took my 2 ducolax tablets at noon as instructed and will be drinking the prep at 5 pm. I've had a few bouts of diarrhea already, even without the pills, and I don't start the picosalax until 5 pm, yet my BM is almost the pee colour they require. Can someone please advise. if I have pee colored stool after my first prep today, then why do I have to repeat another prep at 6 am tomorrow. My colonoscopy is at 1 pm tomorrow.

big betty, when is your procedure being done?
Best of luck.

Dorri, Tuesday is my big day so clear liquids tomorrow and miralax prep.
I don't really know the answer to your question about needing more prep when you already seem to be mostly cleaned out, but here is my guess: Your body gets rid of it's own waste, such as dead blood cells through the colon. Even if you stop eating there is still stuff continually entering the colon that needs to be flushed out. I think the docs like it really clean in there. last time they told me my clean out job was only "fair". The Golytely was so nasty I left some in the bottom of the jug.
Good luck with your scope as well!

As you are drinking your lemon gatorade, close your eyes and think of Lemon Cream Pie. Another tip, if you have to drink 8 cups in 3 hours works out to about 2 and 3/4 cups per hour, (slightly less) which isn't bad. I took the picosalax at 5 pm. Wasn't bad at all to take. Tasted sort of like a sparkly Sprite, but sweeter, and saltier. I did not sip it, I gulped it. It was by far the best and most tolerable prep I ever had to swallow.
I asked about the miralax but was told they didn't carry it where I live, so picosalax must be the next best thing as far as being gentle (as far as I am aware of). So far no massive cramping even though I ran a couple of times. The other good thing about this prep, is that you get to drink your own fluids, tea, coffee, Gatorade, broth, jello, Gingerale, Sprite, and so on, all clear fluids count as part of the prep which makes it a lot easier to get down.

Post Edited (dorri) : 1/4/2015 5:01:11 PM (GMT-7)

Well, now I know why it's a 2 day prep. After following directions to the tee, if I look on the colonoscopy instruction chart they gave me, showing the acceptable color of what stool should be like when ready, I find I'm almost there, but still not as light as the color should stay. What is happening, is I will get one bowel movement that is light fluid, but the next one is darker, so I think perhaps, the contents further up the intestines are moving on down. Also with the narrowing at the junction of the small and large intestine, it may be taking longer to pass through?? Thought I would mention this, in case it may be helpful to someone else.

I was given both, and for me both were very gentle. The ducolax is said to be gentle with overnight relief. Suppose to take 12 hours to move through. I think they gave it to me for extra measure to make sure I was really cleaned out. For me everything was gentle and didn't cause me any issues.. I cleared pretty good. Good luck with your procedure. .

Maybe you can get your answer from a pharmacist, they know quite a bit. Dulcolax is pretty gentle and I worried about the same thing, that it would be too harsh, but it wasn't at all? But best to ask because everyone is different. Before I had my colonoscopy, I was already passing the right color of stool, but I guess because I had a spasm, constipation, or a partial obstruction further up I started to pass the beginning stage of stool color again before I went clear again, so I think sometimes they give you the extra dulcolax just in case you have a blockage further up like I did? .