7 Comments

• Sunday
  October 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  If I may offer some advice: use a straw. And put the straw back as far in your mouth as you can while still being able to suck on it. And then hold the straw firmly with your hand so you don’t gag yourself.

  I speak from experience.

• Jesse
  October 28th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

  I was so into this site until I saw that you put ex into a drink…you completely lost my respect. Is there some subtle irony I’m missing, there? I don’t feel like there is.

• Jake
  October 29th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

  can…..can i have some?

• Gabriel
  October 30th, 2008 at 1:33 am

  @Jesse:

  You silly bear. Listen, a little ex, a little meth, a little acid won’t kill you. It’ll take you to a different place, a good place, a wonderful, new, interesting place.

  You know that little boy in a D.A.R.E. shirt that wiggles his finger and looks sternly at the other thought anthropomorphizations in your head when they start whispering to each other about having a ‘good time’?

  Just close his eyes,
  close his little eyes for the night
  and take a sip.

• Amanda D.
  November 7th, 2008 at 3:10 am

  So, I’ve drank this stuff at least 10 times, because I have a medical issue that makes it very important to see how things are moving through my stomach. Let me tell you, you will gag the first time you will drink it. It’s super chalky and the flavoring just makes it worse. I ask for non flavored just so that the gross fakeness of the flavor doesn’t make me even sicker. I do NOT recommend the straw because it’s hard to suck through the straw,(did I mention it is super thick? I have had to do the straw before and it makes you gag even worse.) I recommend just your regular old chug. Big gulps, don’t think about it, just do it. Also, it will sit in your stomach like a dead weight, so be prepared so feel rather sick afterword. Also, should you drink more than 8 oz. you will most likely be constipated. Hope you enjoy your Barium smoothie, it’s my favorite elemental drink!

• joshua
  December 18th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

  I had to have this (or a cousin of it) at the age of 21, and I read about how utterly awful it was going to taste–how it would be the most awful, heaviest, unpleasant, unenjoyable thing I had ever put into my mouth. To be sure, I can’t remember where I got this information from. It being 1995, I don’t think it was WebMD, but it could easily have been the precursor to WebMD: the Medical section at Barnes & Noble. I didn’t sleep for a couple days, and I worried constantly about every possible scenario–would I throw up, would it hurt, would a full medical staff stand there and be upset with me while I gagged, cried, and could not get it down? Would it be the end of my life? The day came, I hadn’t eaten, and the room was dark. I sat in the corner, on a cheap stool, and the nurse was my age, thin, pretty, and seemed charmingly a little dumb. The doctor looked like a professor. He gave me the cup of barium, and a handful of grit to swallow with it. My heart pounded. It tasted like nothing at all. I was so glad.

  Using front-loaded, days-long manic-depressive misery to counteract a possible mild unpleasantness in the future. Works every time.

• Kevin
  December 18th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

  Yeah I meant to post a follow-up beview. It was fine. Everyone on the planet was out to scare me, but it was a non-event.