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A product of last resort. Tastes awful but works. Be at home near the toilet...when hits it hits hard.
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Reviewer: Frank Cannon, 25-34 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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Instructions said to drink a glass of water with it, so I poured it over ice and mixed in the water. Went down easy. Started working in about 45 minutes. The first movement blasted out with the force of a cannon. WHAMMM! I actually felt lift. From then on, it was watery defecations every 30 minutes or so. No discomfort except for the first mighty blast.
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Reviewer: CITRATED, 65-74 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I took a half-bottle of this to prep for a colonoscopy (following prep instructions) despite a suggestion on Harvard website that it wasn't necessary when prep included drinking 4 liters of Golitely. I drank the citrate but couldn't get past half a bottle. Now I regret it. After 17 days I still have diarrhea and abdominal gurgling.ALL of the sites I've checked point to the magnesium c
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Reviewer: michted, 55-64 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I had to drink 2 bottles of this for a colonoscopy, it did a number on me, 3 weeks later I still have diarrhrea. I dont know how to get it out of my system, the doctors are doing nothing about it. Could it be an overdose of it how do I get my system back to normal?
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Reviewer: Brown Bottle Rocket, 35-44 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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Works almost as fast as a suppository. Extremely effective but onset of evacuation can be sudden. Capable of propelling expelled stools to a peak thrust of 120 pounds with a muzzle velocity of 260 feet per second, so hang on.
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