Posted by DDude on March 03, 2010 at 17:55 [72.50.148.118]
I decided today that I was going to try exlax chocolate pieces. I read the back of the box, and saw that it said to take 2 pieces of up to twice daily. So, I started eating my two pieces. First of all, I thought it would taste as much like chocolate as cherry cough syrup tastes like cherries. I would say it was comparable to Hershey's bars (albeit a bit gritty). I was through with my first piece, and had unwrapped my second. It was then that I noticed that what I had thought was a piece was actually a bar of 12 pieces. A look at the front of the box confirmed it. Oops.
Well, it was too late to back out now. I had taken them around 2:30. Well, at 6:00 I had to go to the office for an evenings work. While I was there, I found out that it was not going to take 6-12 hours to work. At 4 hours after taking it, I would have been able to use the toilet if I had wanted to. I quickly left the office, but had a 20 minute walk/bus ride to get back to my apartment. I got inside, and it took around 30 minutes to get the cramps to die down enough to allow me to lay down, spread my legs, and put on a diaper. While I was writing this, some of it decided to come out on its own (at 8:00).
Now, I know that was not the end of it. A 6x the regular dose of exlax will not let me off easy. I was supposed to take 30mg of sennosides, but ended up taking 180mg of it, 30mg more than people are given for a colonoscopy. I just hope it won't be 6 times as bad as a normal dose (How bad is a normal dose anyways?).
Time will tell. I will report back tonight.