It's drain cleaner!!

[Dave1982]

Thankfully I haven't had a lot of experience with liquid medications. But a couple that I rememebr as particurly foul were liquid Immodium AD (not sure they even make that anymore), and pretty much any generic cough syrup.

Liquid Immodium was just pure concentrated evil....not to mention a ripoff becuase one bottle was only two freaking doses.....

Generic cough syrups....God....I can't stand them. There was one I remember taking once that tasted like gunpowder (more specifically, it tasted like the smell of whatever gunpowder /flash powder was used in cap guns).

I refuse to buy cough syrups that aren't name brand because of this. Those don't exactly taste *good* but they are at least tolerable.

[Catwoman2965]

Not so much taste, but consistency. The giant jug of nasty stuff you drink before a colonoscopy. OMG it was slippery and nasty. Someone said drink it with a straw but that only made it worse. First one I had my dr. gave me a small bottle of stuff, like 6 oz total. But apparetnly that caused kidney damage so they don't recommend or use it anymore.

I finally figured the best way to drink the huge jug o crap was to chug my 8oz glass, then chug some ginger ale to get rid of the feel and taste. I didn't even finish it; I got about 3/4 or so done and was like that's it, anymore, its coming right back up. But the dr. said my insides were nice and clean, so i guess it was enough.

Never had red bull, but I remember the pink nasty liquid. I think it was amoxicillian. BLECH. I can still recall the taste and I haven't had it in problaby 40 years!

[Food Lady]

Prednisone. HATE. How nasty, bitter and awful. And if you so much get as a little bit of the outer coating of the pill on your tongue, it clings. Had to chug several glasseso f water to get the edge off. Dear Lord. I heard people say that tramadol was nasty, but it was a breeze compared to prednisone. I'm one of those weird people that don't mind the taste of "Nobittussin" too much. I used to lick the bottom of the dosage cup. I don't ever really recall taking any medicines I hated as a kid. Except for prednisone last year and this year. Oh *shudder*

I've been on it for 2 weeks and the bitterness only lasts about 5 seconds for me. I take it with milk, so maybe that helps. One of the nurses mentioned the flavor stays for a while, but I haven't had any issues. Weird.

[NotAlBundy]

I hated grape Dimetapp. But I have no aversion to grape juice because it resembles the medicine in no way. I, too, learned to swallow pills at a young age. Mom and I even got the doctor to write a script for cough syrup in pill form once.

I LOVED grape Dimetapp. I probably would have snuck sips if my parents had kept the medicine where I could reach it.

I had issues learning how to swallow pills, and my parents would crush up any pills I had to take on a spoon and then add a little water. *shudder* It was horrible. Now I can swallow multiple pills of different sizes at the same time. Aldactone has a nice minty after taste!

[MoonCat]

When I was a kid my mother gave me mineral oil. To this day, if I think about how it tasted and what it felt like in my mouth, I will vomit. If ever I should need to throw up, all I'll need to do is think about that hellish stuff.

Also - I had a kitty who had to take lactulose. Sticky stuff, he hated it. Then the vet switched him to Miralax, which you mix in water. He not only didn't mind it, he actually enjoyed getting it squirted into his mouth, and he never had the "problem" again.

[Food Lady]

I hated grape Dimetapp. But I have no aversion to grape juice because it resembles the medicine in no way. I, too, learned to swallow pills at a young age. Mom and I even got the doctor to write a script for cough syrup in pill form once.

[Sapphire Silk]

Kaflex (or however it is spelled). That stuff REEKS. It is used for certain kinds of infections (kidney or urinary tract IIRC).

Keflex. Yeah, it does smell. Pen VK has a worse smell though IMHO.

Prednisone.

HATE. How nasty, bitter and awful. And if you so much get as a little bit of the outer coating of the pill on your tongue, it clings. Had to chug several glasseso f water to get the edge off. Dear Lord.

The syrup version for children (Prelone) is even worse. Kids usually vomit it back up immediately. I usually use a strong flavored juice like cranberry to mask the taste so they keep it down.

I didn't think tramadol was bad at all. Go figure

The three worst tasting meds I can think of are:

Prelone (see above comment)

Mucomyst (given mostly for Tylenol overdoses, has some other uses). Comes in a liquid, smells and tastes like rotten eggs. I mix it with cranberry juice to mask the taste, and put a clear membrane dressing like OpSite over the top of the cup and poke a straw through so the patient doesn't have to smell it.

Activated Charcoal. This usually gets vomited up as well, usually on the nurse as well as all over the patient's front. And it does NOT come out in the wash. I've lost more scrub sets that way.

[ArcticChicken]

I heard people say that tramadol was nasty, but it was a breeze compared to prednisone.

Prednisone is the reason that whenever I have to take a pill I first take a mouthful of water, then toss the pill in and swallow the whole thing.

Then I drank a Red Bull. Tasted exactly like that kind of medicine.

I thought that stuff tasted familiar.

[Pagan]

I used to want to do that with cherry flavored Sucrets.

^-.-^

I loved those! Then they changed the formulation.

The Wally World version of Nyquil smells and tastes like black licorice!

[BlaqueKatt]

As a kid, bubble gum flavored amoxicillin.

when I worked in a research facility supplier, we had a kitten that loved that stuff(she had a bad upper respiratory infection), when it was time for her dose she would get all excited and them refuse to let go of the dosing syringe-weird.

[Luna Baby]

My oldest son would refuse to his best ability to take any liquid meds when he was little. He said it would "make his chin quiver." That was the feeling he would get just prior to the meds coming back up. He was also a quick learner when he found out he could take most meds in pill form. Little guy? He loves any med if he thinks it'll get him some attention!

[Primer]

Many many years ago the ex brought home Chlamidia. I don't remember the med I got for it, but it it was NASTY.

This summer, my mom had to take Bactrim, and she swears it's the worst stuff she's ever had to take.

[kpzra]

I think it was supposed to be cola flavored.. i had a choice and picked orange since i was told it was the least worst of the 3

My doctors office only had the orange, but I had no problems with it, it was like drinking thickish Koolaide to me. They did say some women just can't keep it down though. I did forget I had that appointment that day though and ate some toast when I got home from work an few hours before, so it kinda screwed the results up.

[Andara Bledin]

When my sister and I got sick as children, we were given some kind of liquid medicine that had crushed up aspirin in it.

Ew. Aspirin tastes fairly foul all by itself. I would hate to thing of trying to swallow anything with crushed aspirin in it. *shudder*

I even have trouble with coated aspirin. Most likely because there's at least one tablet that's broken inside the bottle, so there's just a little bit of aspirin powder on all of the other pills.

^-.-^

[klhanson]

When I was pregnant, whatever drink I had to take when I went in for my blood tests (I believe it was to check diabetes?) came in 3 flavors. Orange, Fruit Punch, and apparently Vomit. I unfortunately got the last flavor the first try around and couldn't keep it in my mouth. Blech! (I'm gagging a bit just thinking about it! *shudder*) Not sure what the flavor was suppose to be but they just gave me fruit punch which went down fine.

I think it was supposed to be cola flavored.. i had a choice and picked orange since i was told it was the least worst of the 3