What do I need?
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Back to the doctor next week after being on colofac 200mg twice a day for a month. It's certainly made my stools firmer but hasn't really improved my IBS-D. It's an antispasmodic which is mainly for pain isn't it? I don't get any pain, just the D. Are there any other drugs that will help me?
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vicky103 Dorset87
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Have you tried imodium? I use this regularly to help when I'm having days with bad diarrhea. My doctor also prescribed me codeine phosphate as well to help with diarrhea. Does seem to work, but I feel the imodium is best, as I'm not quite sure how many of the codeine''s to take to make sure that the diarrhea is kept at bay.
Hope that helps :-)
Dorset87 vicky103
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I do take Imodium but not sure if that's ok to take on a daily basis, I was wondering if there was anything I could try that stops it without taking Imodium if that makes sense
pippa58442 vicky103
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I had IBS D two weeks ago for three days. Nurofen with codeine helped to slow it down a bit after a dosage of four spread out over a few hours. However, it didn't stop the diarrhoea completely so I took Imodium for one day and that cleared it up.
marlene21102 Dorset87
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Dorset87 marlene21102
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Hello Marlene, yep tried everything and just had a colononsopy in Poole to rule everything else out.
Really just want to find something that controls it to a more manageable level. The colofac doesn't seem to work. How much water do you drink a day and is that making a difference then?
marlene21102 Dorset87
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Hi I drink upto 5 / 50mls a water from the time I get up ,onwards . No juice just pure Mineral water . It does slow things down . Plus I watch what I eat . Have a lok at Oxalates , see if there's anything on those foods that's cause , I did and foud several culprits tomatoes , onions etc wasent until I got told to check that out I found if I ignore certain ones I ate on a regular basis it was so ,so much better plus the daily water . Got nothing to loose go read up on OXALATES . May surprise you also .
pippa58442 marlene21102
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leeniepie Dorset87
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