IBS-ish med

[dancesintherain]

'on the day in my life that many things simultaneously happened (9/15), my GI got a letter that a medication I take was being recalled.  I hadn't even heard of a medication refill anymore.  Anyway, it was a particular batch of hyoscamin, which is the one that I transferred up to NY when my GI system was going crazy (it's still incredibly happy as I learned while driving the car back from a GI doc appointment). 

Anywho, I've got a new one--dicyclomine.  Anyone have experiences with it?  I don't need it now because weekends are sometimes better.  But I'm sure I'll need it at some point, so just curious.  Maybe I should keep it in my purse like the zofran that magically appeared.

[melissaw72]

Yes, I am on dicyclomine right now (20 mg pills), but now it is PRN.  In the beginning I was on 4 x/day.

Now, when I use it when I am going to the bathroom a little every 5-10 minutes (drives me crazy).  I take one pill (takes about a half hour to settle in, so you might feel a difference around that amount of time), and it helps.  If it continues though, I take another one and that will usually do the trick.  Before when I was on 4x/day, it was because my IBS was totally insane.

I do keep it in my purse also, along with zofran ... because IBS is so unpredictable you never know when you'll need it.

 

 

 

[dancesintherain]

Yeah, I'm starting to find patterns but they are all stress related.  For example, getting swamped with work or hearing that the person from work who I swear was in the hospital and said something reassuring was not actually there. So the first one just because of stress and the second because it turned what I thought was friendship into an auditory hallucination...which made me wonder how much else of what's in reality is actually in reality.