This week I've had a friend on the phone in tears cos she'd been given Picolax by her GP and it was like "dynamite" and she hadnt been able to leave the loo for about 18 hours. She'd been dubious when given it as she remembered working on a surgical ward where a little elderly lady had been given Picolax and it made her so weak she'd fallen and broken a hip trying to get from her bed to the comode. However, my mum found Picolax far gentler than Kleanprep when preparing for a colonoscopy last year. She couldn't go through with the full dose of Kleanprep, ended up in a heap on the bathroom floor and wasn't well enough to go to the hospital the next day for her procedure. Eeeshk!