Originally Posted by
Lovestar
Oh, god, the mischief that popped to mind when I saw this thread title. But I'll behave.
For me, I had to empty my digestive tract — completely — so that doctors could explore it with tube cameras (whee). They prescribed some disturbing white "phosphate" powder which was supposed to be "cherry flavored". I had to mix it with a very tall glass of water and consume the entire thing in one swig.
OK, it did not taste like cherries. Not any cherry I've ever tasted.
It tasted vaguely like ambiguously-fruity children's multivitamins, mixed with 10 kilograms of table salt, a cup of horribly bitter artichoke semen, some motor oil, human sweat, foundation (make-up), a latex glove, the odour of dead rats discovered in your attic crawlspace, vomit, and that thick solid choking smell of a small public toilet someone recently lost their internals to.
I have honestly never tasted anything which was simultaneously so gaggingly medicinal yet biologically evocative. It was disgusting. Just freaking unbelievable.
And I had to chug an entire glass of it, I couldn't spit it out, I had to just keep swallowing and swallowing gulp after gulp while my body kept uncontrollably, desperately trying to make the opposite motion and gag it back up. By the time I finished I was so nauseous I had to pop some antiemetics just to be sure I'd keep it down.
I don't know what was in that stuff, but to this day just remembering it makes me start to throw up. Not joking. Can medicine spoil?