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Imperfectlyperfect    5

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Hello fellow Sleever's.

I am curious to know of other's reactions to Magnesium Citrate the day before surgery. How long did it take to work your bowels? Did you feel anxious, light headed and have hot flashes? Its been 45 mins since I have drank it and I have not yet had a BM but I am feeling funny. Any tips? Any advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

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TMyers1471    87

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It takes a while for it to work, but when it does, stay near the bathroom. Everyone responds to it differently, but it will work. Read a book, listen to some music, and just try to take your mind off from it. Your body will let you know when it's time to go. :)

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Imperfectlyperfect    5

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oh ok, thank you very much! Did it make you feel funny?

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TMyers1471    87

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Yes. I would get faint...especially when it started working. I would lay a cool cloth across the back of my neck, close my eyes, and do some deep breathing. That usually did the trick.

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Wheetsin    714

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It took about 14 hours for the magnesium citrate to really kick in for me. Unfortunately this meant that the first "uh oh" was as I was registering at the hospital. The last (that I was conscious for) was just as they came to get me to take me back to the OR. My entire prep time was spent running between the prep room and the toilet.

I felt a little weird, but more of a queasy feeling. That stuff tasted like someone shoved boiled eggs, salt, and sour into old @ss and let it sit for a few weeks. And I was burping it, which meant I was tasting it all over again. Just having to re-live that taste made me feel off for about an hour.

Oh, I took mine around 3. Around 10 I had one moment in the bathroom, but what came out was more like pure magnesium citrate. No... waste material. The stuff in the morning was ALL waste material. So to speak.

The best I could do was tell my surgteon that if I pooped on the OR table, it was his fault for making me drink that crap. :) Then the nurse promised me that if I pooped on them, they wouldn't tell me about it, and that I wouldn't be the only one (which I already knew).

Hello fellow Sleever's.

I am curious to know of other's reactions to Magnesium Citrate the day before surgery. How long did it take to work your bowels? Did you feel anxious, light headed and have hot flashes? Its been 45 mins since I have drank it and I have not yet had a BM but I am feeling funny. Any tips? Any advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

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karenb4729    309

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For me it begins working in about 4 hours. I had to use it for both the pre-op and for my colonoscopy. I never felt faint and never had bad cramps but you do feel the bubbling and you know its gonna kick in any minute.

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Imperfectlyperfect    5

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thanks y'all! still nothing....but my best friend decided to do it too just to cleanse and he is going like crazy.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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