Surgery Tomorrow, Magnesium Citrate

[Misstxdiva 73]

OMG I just took half of the magnesium citrate to prep for surgery tomorrow morning and my stomach is growling kind of rowdy. Is this normal? I'm at work so it startled me and I don't want something awful to happen next LOL. Taking the second half at 4pm. Almost one step closer to surgery!

[arj1016 57]

Good luck tomorrow!

[MiTurner247 34]

I drank that nasty awful stuff and had no results for at least 10 hours and even my results were very litte. Good luck with your surgery tomorrow

[B~Happy 4]

Good luck with your surgery, I will be in your boat tomorrow night!!! So excited!

[Misstxdiva 73]

Thanks everyone. I'm not really feeling good from this magnesium stuff :-(

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[WillowsKnot 71]

I have to do one bottle on Saturday and a second bottle on Sunday. My surgery is next Monday. I was told not to leave the house and be near a bathroom. Those two days I can only have Clear liquids as well and of course 12 hours before surgery, NPO. I am so not looking forward to this part. I did go out and get the TP with lotion/aloe in it though. LOL

Oh, and thanks Misstxdiva for the reminder on your other post about the antibacterial soap. I'll stop and pick that up tonight. Just when I think I have it all covered. I got liquid children's Tylenol last night at Sam’s Club thanks to another poster on here yesterday! I totally forgot about getting that. I am so glad you all are here.

[dee5584 0]

Good Luck tomorrow. I am just starting down the path to a new me. I will go on Thursday evening to my first seminar. At that time I will sign my name on the dotted line and I will not look back. I am so looking forward to a "me" that can live a normal life and forget all my health issues. I have three of the most wonderful grandchildren any one could wish for and I want them to be as proud of me as I am of them.

[WillowsKnot 71]

Way to go Dee. It has now been 8 months since I did the same thing you are doing right now. Time has flown by and when I went to my first meeting I thought it would take so long to get where I am now... surgery next week. I feel you excitement and am so happy for you.

[Lilu 65]

you are not alone I am doing the same and it seem to not be kicking in. And my surgery is at 8 pm tom. Good luck look for my posting on a prayer the doctors

[Wheetsin 714]

Ok, I had to drink a bottle of this stuff pre-op. My pre-op instructions said to take it between 1pm and 5pm the day before surgery. I finished mine around 4pm. It made me feel a little queasy because it was so vile, and I'd burp the flavor. Around 11pm I had a teeny, tiny little movement, tiny, but it reeked of the magnesium citrate.

It finally kicked in for me around 6am the morning of surgery. I had to go 2 or 3 times before we left, and about 5 times at the hospital. My surgery was at 9 and my surgeon stopped by around 8:30. I pretty much told him that I'm sorry if I poop on the table, but it was his fault. I have no idea if I did or not, but I had no issues once I woke up.

The worst part was that since it didn't kick in until after I could no longer drink fluids, I got pretty severely dehydrated. It took about 12 attempts to get an IV started. They'd get a catheter into the vein, and the veil would just collapse. They couldn't even flush it. At one point I was laying in my prep gurney with 8 different IV kits sticking out of my arms, because they didn't want to remove any of them until they found something definitely better. So I guess my advice would be that if you have to take the magnesium citrate the day before, really, really load up on as many fluids as you can.

[MiTurner247 34]

Good luck tomorrow!