Good for you for educating yourself about it. That's the best idea, to speak to your specialist. Was it your primary physician who prescribed it?
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Good for you for educating yourself about it. That's the best idea, to speak to your specialist. Was it your primary physician who prescribed it?
Jade Dragon
And I'm the one that jaded you.
Yep, I just think the problem is bile acid. I have too much fat and have what you describe after you had your gallbladder removed. I want to discuss meds for bile acid malabsorption.
Mason Melchizedek
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You can't be saying screw it!But a specialist can push it thru easier than a PCP if he thinks it's right med.
Mason Melchizedek
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Without a gall bladder you have to eat pretty lean proteins!
Jade Dragon
And I'm the one that jaded you.
With the side effects and price, I can. Unless it magically gets under $40 dollars I'm not even considering trying a different kind of the same medicine that gave me issues last time. Good chance it does the same. The biggest issue is it being an opioid.
Mason Melchizedek
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It's the doctors responsiblity to push it thru your insurance.
Jade Dragon
And I'm the one that jaded you.
I gave up fried foods and fatty meats. Taking bratwurst away from an ancestral German is just wrong.
Jade Dragon
And I'm the one that jaded you.
Would you take an opioid every day?
Mason Melchizedek
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My Daughter in law had her gall bladder out,if she goes with fatty meats and such ,it goes right thru her.
Mason Melchizedek
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Is that what they want to give you!?
Opium has been used for centuries for GI issues.
But see what the specialist say.
Do you have a name of the med?
They probably want to slow your GI track down.
Jade Dragon
And I'm the one that jaded you.
Opioids will agitate the other side of the issues. I hated taking them when I had kidney stones and would just put up with the pain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eluxadoline
Mason Melchizedek
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This wouldn't be for pain,this would be the traditional use for opiates,slowing down the GI trek.
Mason Melchizedek
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Is it Paragoric?
Jade Dragon
And I'm the one that jaded you.
Heck if I know.
Oh geeze. I thought they had moved past prescribing those for IBS. They really do slow down motility, which is why you get constipation when taking them. We have better stuff now though.
I shouldn't laugh at the situation but that was funny right there.
You used to be able to buy that OTC with a signature. When my middle daughter was a toddler, we had one of those stomach bugs run through the family. Vomiting and diarrhea. She got so lethargic at one point I was seriously scared. Called the doc, he told me to go get paregoric liquid for her. It stopped her right up. A couple days later I got it, and took the paregoric right out of the gate. Oh man. Had no idea that it contained opium. It was just like that song, Comfortably Numb. My head felt like "two balloons." lol It worked great but the side effects.... ugh.
Judy Johnstone
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When I was in the ER with Benzo Belly they gave me 7 meds,when
Paragoric would have worked.
But it's not PC to use Paragoric.
I wonder if that's because it's so long out of patent that they can't make any $$$ off of it?
Judy Johnstone
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No it's the opium,a drug used for 1000's of years.
But if they give you that tiny bit in Paragoric,they think you're going to go buy,a pound of heroin!