Those are god awful, hopefully everything was good in the scan!

That sucks, OP! Too bad they are a necessity for these scans. Hope the results were fine, though!

What I had done once was pinch my nose and tried to not let it touch my tongue.

if I have to drink something that awful I simply close my eyes, cover my nose, and ingest the whole thing in a single shot.

I had a Barium swallow a couple of years back. my drink was fruity and I loved it!

man, those things taste terrible. having to drink the second one + the puke taste in your mouth.... the last gross drink i had for a medical test I could mix with sparkling flavoured water so it was palatable. thankfully. hope your test results come back good!

But did you puke up the 2nd shake as well?? We need a follow up!

I had to do that several times so the doctors could figure out I had Crohn's. They never get easier to drink. I know they try to make it not taste good so people don't abuse it, but when it tastes so bad that the people who need it can't stomach it, you're doing something wrong.

I had to have CT scans every month for a year after an injury when I was 15, and I could never drink that crap the normal way. I puked twice before my mom had to force them to make into a kool-aid type drink that they gave me when I was in the ER the very first time so that I wouldn't puke it back up. They argued that they only do that for ER patients, but my mom told them that unless they wanted me there all day just puking up the regular stuff over and over, they better make an exception. In a magnificent display of timing, I barfed again. They made an exception pretty quick. Looking back now that I'm older, I'm 99% sure that barium liquid is the reason I can't swallow after giving oral without gagging. That stuff is basically the same as drinking a man's "stuff."

I had the same thing happen to me. Good luck!!