Update:  The problem is persisting.  Took Fleet Phospho-soda at 5:00pm sharp, Mountain Time.  I will, for the sake of edification of the group, keep you all updated as the evening progresses.

I have NEVER tasted anything so foul in my life as this Fleet stuff

seriously, take some metamucil

Drink lots and lots of water so you don't deyhidrate to bad.

Quoted: okay 10 to 20 drop of visean ( sp ?  the eye drop stuff ) in a drink. great practical joke too.

You better watch out, even a few drops of that stuff can kill someone you stupid bastard.

5:31pm-5:39pm:  1st episode in the restroom

My stomach hurts like bloody hell, started to about 5 minutes after I took that stuff.  I hope that's normal.  Hurts worse after my restroom visit.

My calf is getting a hellacious charlie-horse, probably because I didn't really drink much today.  I'm hammering a few tall glasses of water now.  I wonder if the phospho-soda has anything to do with the cramping in my calf?  

Quoted: Quoted: okay 10 to 20 drop of visean ( sp ?  the eye drop stuff ) in a drink. great practical joke too. You better watch out, even a few drops of that stuff can kill someone you stupid bastard.

Are you serious?  I almost took some last night

Quoted: Fleet

 

Uppers, that'll do it.    

3 drops in a Wendy's medium drink will make someone shit in a crowded parking lot. 10 drops probably would kill someone.

After taking the Fleet, are we talking a visit or two to the bathroom, or many, many times throughout the night?

Magnesium Citrate......taste like Sprite, works like dynamite (that rhymed didn't it? HA).

Seriously, the stuff works.....10,000 open heart patients can't be wrong.

WHOA!!!  Time for round 2......

Quoted: After taking the Fleet, are we talking a visit or two to the bathroom, or many, many times throughout the night?

You're going to be shitting for a good 6 hours after you take it. Count on 5-6 visits before stuff begins to harden up again.

I hope you read the instructions correctly and had 8oz of clear fluid between each dose of Fleet you took. If I recall it's three doses and the Fleet bottle is empty.

Be sure you drink obscene amounts of water during and afterward for a day or two. I didn't continue drinking and ended up terribly dehydrated. My lips cracked and split from being so dry and bled.

Quoted: Oh.. prune juice.

Yup

Rick's Special:   1 bottle Magnesium citrate by mouth (tastes less bad if chilled)
                            1 dulcolax tab by mouth
                             1 dulcolax suppository per rectum

                            May repeat 12 hours later if incomplete effect.


If you can't get to the pharmacy but have some epsom salts, put 2 teaspoons in a half glass of water and chug a lug.  May repeat in 12 hours prn.

Quoted: Magnesium Citrate......taste like Sprite, works like dynamite (that rhymed didn't it? HA). Seriously, the stuff works.....10,000 open heart patients can't be wrong.

 

I've used that too.  It works great.  

Quoted: Fleet Phospho Soda. You'll be "evacuating" your life away for the next few hours.

That aint no joke neither

When that stuff hits you'd better be sitting on the john-or you're fucked.

4 Taco Bell bean burritos with extra sour cream and two of the biggest sized pepsi's you can get.

No better laxitive has been found.

Quoted: Quoted: Fleet Phospho Soda. You'll be "evacuating" your life away for the next few hours. That aint no joke neither When that stuff hits you'd better be sitting on the john-or you're fucked.

I have a restroom adjoining my office, about 5 feet away.  Luckily, I can post here and run in there when I need to.

I am beginning to understand now, that taking the Fleet was sort of a long-term commitment, as in "don't make any fuckin' plans, Pete"

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Fleet Phospho Soda. You'll be "evacuating" your life away for the next few hours. That aint no joke neither When that stuff hits you'd better be sitting on the john-or you're fucked. I have a restroom adjoining my office, about 5 feet away.  Luckily, I can post here and run in there when I need to. I am beginning to understand now, that taking the Fleet was sort of a long-term commitment, as in "don't make any fuckin' plans, Pete"

You're at work with a stomach full of Fleet!

Quoted: You're at work with a stomach full of Fleet!

Man that sucks!

At least you have a bathroom nearby Pete. I've only used it once, and that was enough. A few years ago I asked my wife to bring home something from work to unclog the pipes, and that's what she brought. I had no idea what I was in for, but she did (she's a trauma nurse at a local hospital).

She thought it would be funny to not warn me about my impending intestinal doom. It hit me so hard I practically had to crawl to the bathroom.

She still chuckles about it every once in a while-and of course all of her coworkers know about it too

Quoted: Magnesium Citrate......taste like Sprite, works like dynamite (that rhymed didn't it? HA). Seriously, the stuff works.....10,000 open heart patients can't be wrong.

+1 for the "Green Grenade"

Quoted: Anyone know of a home remedy laxative that works?  I don't care which end it is administered through.  I have a stomach ache, I have not, uh, evacuated since Friday, and I need to go NOW.  I took some Pepto Bismol last night which has only served to stop up the plumbing worse.   At this point, I'd stuff a 223 round up my butt if I thought it would help....

not a home remedy but cheap(under $2.00) and easily obtainable and works in about an hour



Magnesium Citrate Oral Solution

First time I found the stuff...I had a roommate with a similar problem and I worked at a drug store.....I asked the pharmacist and that was the recommendation....and yes it does work....
biggest advantage over fleet...you dont have to stick anything up your butt...

apple sauce is not what you want to eat when you need to go.

for the runs remember BRAT

B = bananas
R = rice
A= apple sauce
T + toast


Apple Juice from the can, a la USN stores always gets one going

Quoted: not a home remedy but cheap(under $2.00) and easily obtainable and works in about an hour a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/85469/200.jpg Magnesium Citrate Oral Solution First time I found the stuff...I had a roommate with a similar problem and I worked at a drug store.....I asked the pharmacist and that was the recommendation....and yes it does work.... biggest advantage over fleet...you dont have to stick anything up your butt...

The Fleet I took was the orally-administered stuff.  Tasted horrible.  There's stuff I have to go do, but I'm sorta trapped right now.  Gonna go lay on the couch for a bit - this stuff is brutal.

Quoted: 3 drops in a Wendy's medium drink will make someone shit in a crowded parking lot. 10 drops probably would kill someone.

www.snopes.com/toxins/visine.asp



Claim:   A few drops of Visine brand eye drops taken internally will cause diarrhea.

Status:   False.

Example:   [Collected on the Internet, 2003]


   I've heard that barmaids and cocktail waitresses have a secret for getting rid of obnoxious customers. Seems they use the eye medication Visine for a little Montezuma's revenge. A few eyedrops in someone's drink can apparently leave him sitting on the toilet for the rest of the evening with a nasty case of "the runs."

Origins:   The
desire for revenge runs deep in all of us. Everyone who has ever been wronged has at one time or another felt the urge to strike a counterblow. Most of us don't indulge in this pursuit because we've deemed the cost of getting even too high to justify the benefits gained, yet we revel in thoughts of comeuppances doled out by others. Such imaginings give us the chance to vicariously experience the joys of retribution, joys we're not likely to sample in real life.

The "Visine slipped into the drink" pay back carries additional appeal because it seems to offer an effective yet harmless form of retaliation that could be easily and furtively administered even by the wimpiest of revenge seekers. Also, the mental image of an enemy sent hotfooting for the toilet is a Oooh hugely satisfying one, especially in a society that views fecal output as something to be ashamed of. An act of spite that forces the victim into making repeated visits to the john is regarded as not only extremely inconveniencing to him, but degrading as well.

Yet all is not well in revenge land. While it is true that Visine is readily obtainable (it's an non-prescription eye drop manufactured by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer), a drink spiked with it not only won't produce diarrhea in the one unfortunate enough to drink the concoction, but ingestion of the product is downright dangerous, making this "harmless" form of retaliation fraught with hazard.

The active ingredient in Visine eye drops is Tetrahydrozoline HCl 0.05%. Swallowing this substance can result in a number of nasty effects, including:

   * Lowering body temperature to dangerous levels
   * Making breathing difficult, or even halting it entirely
   * Blurring vision
   * Causing nausea and vomiting
   * Elevating and then dropping blood pressure
   * Causing seizures or tremors
   * Sending the ingester into a coma

Pfizer's cautions to users of Visine include, "If swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away." In view of the above list, that advice should not be taken lightly.

One thing tetrahydrozoline has not been known to do is to cause sudden onset bouts of severe diarrhea. Although this belief has been around for decades, and everyone knows someone who knows someone who really did administer a Visine mickey to a deserving miscreant and thereby caused him an immediate serious case of the trots, there's no documented evidence the product would have that effect. Of the Visine poisoning cases studied by medical observers, we found none that mentioned diarrheal output brought about by the drug.

Yet if Visine doesn't cause diarrhea, it has done things far more terrible. Drinking it can (and has) caused severe depression of the central nervous system. In 1996, a two-year-old child who ingested at most 2 to 3 mL of Visine eye drops became dangerously lethargic and unresponsive to every stimulus except deep pain. Thanks to prompt medical attention the child recovered, but not before enduring intubation and two days' worth of mechanically-assisted breathing.

Medical literature reports other cases of small children brought to the brink of crisis by ingestion of tiny amounts of over-the-counter eye drops. The danger is real, and parents are well advised to keep eye drops away from children.

Yet it is not only toddlers who risk central nervous system shutdown or other dire results if they swallow Visine. In 1995 an adult customer at a Whole Foods Market (a retail chain of natural and organic foods) had his wheat-grass smoothie spiked with a bottle of Visine by a clerk intent upon playing a practical joke. The victim, Rudy Trabanino of Houston, became violently ill and had to be hospitalized for several days with acute pain and a variety of serious medical problems. The clerk responsible for the act was dismissed, and Whole Foods Market settled out of court with Trabanino for an undisclosed sum after he brought a $1 million suit against the store.

Visine poisoning has also featured in a murder. In 2001, Damien Kawai, a member of the U.S. Air Force, killed his roommate and fellow airman by strangling the young man, then attempted to conceal the crime by slitting the wrists of the corpse to make the death appear to be suicide. Kawai admitted to earlier spiking the roommate's beer with Visine, under the belief this would render the doomed man unconscious. (It actually caused him to vomit and suffer labored breathing).

In May 2002 19-year-old Damien Kawai was sentenced to life in prison for the 17 November 2001 murder of Charles Eskew.

In October 2003 an unnamed Southern California high school student put eye drops in teacher's water bottle in an attempt to give his instructor severe diarrhea. Others in the class who saw the act removed the adulterated beverage before the intended victim could drink it. The student responsible has been charged with tampering with a drink with intent to cause harm.

Revenge seekers still not quite convinced that a Visine mickey finn won't produce the diarrheal results they crave, or that the drinking of such a potion could potentially result in a life-threatening medical crisis in the object of their prank, should consider one final fact: the act of secreting noxious substances in ingestibles for the purpose of bringing harm to others is called poisoning. It matters not if actual harm results from the attempt — the act itself is enough to land one in the hoosegow.

Barbara "poison penned" Mikkelson

Sightings:   In an episode of television's C.S.I. ("Revenge Is Best Served Cold," original air date 26 September 2002) a drink spiked in this fashion causes a death when the eye drops initiate a fatal reaction with chocolate the victim had eaten.

Additional information:

   Tetrahydrozoline Poisoning   Tetrahydrozoline Poisoning   (Medline)

Last updated:   13 October 2003

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/toxins/visine.asp

I have heard that a capful of Ivory liquid has an immediate laxative effect, but don't go killing yourself taking this advice, it may have been BS.

Quoted: Fleet Phospho Soda. You'll be "evacuating" your life away for the next few hours.

Strongest stuff in the world. It knocked the shi'ite out of Superman!

Many years ago, I had a similar problem.  I asked the corpsman what to do...and that pill pusher (God Bless him!!!) gave me one small orange pill with a warning:  Do NOT get very far from the head after I took it.

Fifteen minutes later I was riding the porcelain throne...and remained so until that little bastard completed its magic.  To this day I have no idea what the little thing was...but it worked wonders.

For your sake I trust you did NOT push?  

After years of "problems" like that (you know...sometimes hard to do a number 2 in the bush or on watch aboard ship?) I finally screwed up and ended up with two very painful surgeries.  Lessons learned from my solorectal surgeon:

Drink lots of WATER...not beer, not coffee.  Force youself to get up and get a drink.

Keep some appropriate supplies in the house for emergencies like this...shit happens at the most inopportune times.

Get some exercise...even just a walk.

Eat  lots of leafy greens.

Lay off of the heavy dairy products like cheese.

Go when you can...DON'T IGNORE IT for later!

Don't push....you will regret it in the "end"...

Quoted: For your sake I trust you did NOT push?

Don't push....you will regret it in the "end"...

Uh, why is it bad to push?

Quoted: Quoted: For your sake I trust you did NOT push?   Don't push....you will regret it in the "end"... Uh, why is it bad to push?

Does the term "Fecal Impaction" bring any interesting thoughts to your imagination ??

Update:  Damn, what a night.  As one poster mentioned, my lips are very dry, which I cannot believe happened so fast.  I just drank a few more glasses of water.  That Fleet is some high-powered mojo for sure.

I'm down to only hitting the restroom every hour or so, but my stomache ache is gone, and I feel much better.  

Mission: Accomplished

Quoted: Update:  Damn, what a night.  As one poster mentioned, my lips are very dry, which I cannot believe happened so fast.  I just drank a few more glasses of water.  That Fleet is some high-powered mojo for sure. I'm down to only hitting the restroom every hour or so, but my stomache ache is gone, and I feel much better.   Mission: Accomplished

Keep drinking! More than you want to (don't go too overboard and kill yourself though). My lips killed me (as I said, they cracked and bled) for weeks afterwards, couldn't get them to heal up properly.

Drink water water water!

Fleet sure does the trick though!

This is coming from the guy that coined the phrase, "drydocked a stink pickle" in an old thread from Slumlord!



Best wishes for a speedy resolution!

PeteCo,

Glad to hear everything came out all right!

Rick

So you had an anulicar explosion?  

Quoted: Quoted: For your sake I trust you did NOT push?   Don't push....you will regret it in the "end"... Uh, why is it bad to push?

If you try to push a hard one out with too much force, you stand a chance of creating an anal fissure.

You don't want one of those...trust me.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: For your sake I trust you did NOT push?   Don't push....you will regret it in the "end"... Uh, why is it bad to push? If you try to push a hard one out with too much force, you stand a chance of creating an anal fissure. You don't want one of those...trust me.

NO SHIT? !~  I HAVE one, dude! Damn

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: For your sake I trust you did NOT push?   Don't push....you will regret it in the "end"... Uh, why is it bad to push? If you try to push a hard one out with too much force, you stand a chance of creating an anal fissure. You don't want one of those...trust me. NO SHIT? !~  I HAVE one, dude! Damn

If so...go see your internist.  Do NOT wait.  It will only get worse and the surgical repair is rather unpleasant.

Should of just ate some Mcdonalds.