It's drain cleaner!!

[Shalom]

He's a new one. I accidently swallowed whole my chewable, fizzy vitamin C tablets one morning recently.

Here lies the body of Mary Ann Lowder
She burst while drinking a Seidlitz powder
Called from this world to her heavenly rest
She could have waited till it effervesced.

(quoted in "Some Curious Epitaphs", by "Only Johnson" [sic], Machinists' Monthly Journal, May, 1915, page 402)

[Zaiida]

He's a new one. I accidently swallowed whole my chewable, fizzy vitamin C tablets one morning recently. Damn I had the worst orange burps for the rest of that morning .

[cashierbex]

I have always hated cherry flavored medicine, alcohol free or not. Grape also. Well, nowadays I can't have liquid medicine much cause of it having some kind of sugar I can't have in it (sucrose I think is in some stuff? Not even artifiicial, but my body can't handle it like it was artificial). I just take the pills.

[Shalom]

You laugh, but my gaming buddy who is a pharmacist had a customer who wasn't taking the foil packaging off of their suppositories.

I have colleagues who write Unwrap And Insert on the labels for this very reason.

[Geek King]

[...], the patient sarcastically answers "Then what am I supposed to do? Stick them up my ass?"

You laugh, but my gaming buddy who is a pharmacist had a customer who wasn't taking the foil packaging off of their suppositories.

[wolfie]

All this "awful medicine" stuff reminds me of the old joke where a patient complains to the doctor that the suppositories he prescribed taste awful, and he can't swallow them. When the doctor (horrified) tells the patient he's not supposed to take them by mouth, the patient sarcastically answers "Then what am I supposed to do? Stick them up my ass?"

[SongsOfDragons]

That sounds like Otex ear drops...aren't they a kind of gold colour? I can't remember. Smelled...interesting, but thankfully you aren't supposed to eat them, you plonk them in your ears...only I once used it for too long and the nurse said 'no wonder your ears hurt, the canals are full of oil!! '

Although am I the only one who finds ear syringing really soothing and comforting and sometimes will giggle through the entire process?

[Sedorna]

I can't remember the name of the worst tasting medicine I ever took. I'm not even sure what, exactly, it was for. I think it was for an ear infection. And I think it was somewhat homeopathic, because it looked and tasted exactly like liquid ear wax. (Or, at least, what I assume liquid ear wax would taste like.) It was so vile, I couldn't bring myself to finish it.

[IamEmancipated]

I'll echo the prednisone tasting shitty. I had mine for bronchitis, and took it with breakfast and a cup of coffee. Hot coffee and prednisone. BRILLIANT

I want to add Nystatin to this list (or whatever the generic for liquid thrush medication is) because my son had to take it back when he was 6 months old and I accidentally got to taste some. No wonder he put up a fight when I gave it to him and tried to spit it out. It tastes like someone liquified burnt-glue and melted plastic into a bottle.

[WoodenSunshine]

[QUOTE=Zaiida;1033918]When I went to get a dental xray recently, a few people were in the waiting room being told to drink some thickish, white liquid from a smallish bottle. Whatever it was the looks on their faces after the first gulp was I HAVE TO DRINK ALL OF IT?!?! and the look of horror as they swallowed it reluctantly then ran for the water cooler to wash out their mouths. Whatever it was they had to wait 40 minsish before being xrayed so it must have been for an upper intestinal contrast... [QUOTE]

This, this and this. The chalky "liquid" with the consistency of grainy pudding. This. Absolutely most god awful stuff. Tried it with chocolate syrup the first barium x-ray I had. Next time, I told them to just give it to me straight.

I will take prednisone over that stuff.

[Geek King]

I take it that water only wasn't an option?

No. It was some agent to help them look around the whole system. They were checking to see if there was more cancer spread in the area. Fortunately, nothing showed up, and the doc believes now, based on what came out in the surgery and the pathology later, that it was caught early. They termed it stage 1-B, for what its worth.

[ADeMartino]

There also used to be some kind of pill my parents would give me for hyperactivity. Again I don't know what it was called, but it was bitter and awful. I couldn't take it with water. My parents had to crush the pill and mix it with applesauce or ice cream, but I could still taste it. >.<

Tiny little light blue pill? Sounds like Ritalin (sp?). I had to take that shit every day. HATED it. Was so glad when I didn't have to take it any more.

[fireheart]

Oddly, though, when I was in the hospital last month, they gave me some clear stuff mixed into a liter of water in preparation of a cat scan of my bladder area. I don't remember the name of the stuff, but I was to drink half over the course of an hour, and the other half during the twenty minutes before the scan.

I take it that water only wasn't an option?

When I had to go for a kidney and pelvic ultrasound (to work out why the hell I was having recurrent UTI's) I had to drink a litre of water and hold it for an hour. Of course, with this particular UTI it hurt like CRAZY! In sympathy, the tech called me in first and got the bladder part out of the way so that I could let it out.

[Geek King]

Oddly, though, when I was in the hospital last month, they gave me some clear stuff mixed into a liter of water in preparation of a cat scan of my bladder area. I don't remember the name of the stuff, but I was to drink half over the course of an hour, and the other half during the twenty minutes before the scan.

They warned me it was horrible stuff, and to pace myself. So I took my first drink with great caution, but found it no worse than boiled water. Just kind of flat, really. I was kind of disappointed, after all that build up the nurses gave me.

[cindybubbles]

All of my vitamins were crushed and mixed into ice cream.