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Posted 9/15/2009 9:19 PM (GMT 0)
My doc put me on questran for my d and after finding the best way to choke it down I am happy to say that I have had "normal" poo's again.  (for the most part, some d breakthrough). I went from 7-20 d's a day to 3-5 normals a day!! Yahoooooooo!  Kinda surreal when in public tho and you are always fixated on where is the next bathroom and then you think....but I don't have to go....wierd.
Posted 9/15/2009 9:35 PM (GMT 0)
It's a nice feeling huh? LOL I've taken Quetran for years, and it's a life saver for me. Now when I really do flare up from my Crohn's, even Questran won't work. Which is good though, you want to know when your in a flare. But for me it was really needed from having so much bile in my system after the gallbladder removal.
Posted 9/15/2009 11:37 PM (GMT 0)
Long term use of questran or the like causes deficiencies in the oil soluble vitamins. This has many resulting problems. See: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Questran and look at "Adverse Reactions" under "Metabolic".

Ask your doctor about getting supplements to replace the lost vitamins A, D, E, and K. Vitamin K may be hard to find without a prescription, especially in Europe.
Posted 9/16/2009 12:28 AM (GMT 0)
Yeah I take a women's multi-vitamin that you can get in any store, has Vitamin K. Not sure of any other country of course.
Posted 9/16/2009 4:39 PM (GMT 0)
Just so you know there is a pill form of Questran. I think it is Colestipid. You can't adjust the dosage quite as much, but it is a lot easier to get down. If it is really hard for you to get the powder down, you might want to ask about the pills.
Posted 9/17/2009 1:09 AM (GMT 0)
I've been on it for 2 weeks now and it is my wonder drug. I finally have normal poos, I can't even remember normal poos.
Posted 9/22/2009 7:53 PM (GMT 0)
I use sunny delight, small smoothie blender and a straw the make it drinkable. The combo of the 3 and it is quite tolerable.
Posted 9/23/2009 5:22 AM (GMT 0)
I haven't known too many people that found the pills to work as well. It didn't work very well for me. Something about all that powder soaking it up that seemed to really do the trick. Yeah it's not fun to take, but it's well worth getting over it. Just got to figure out what works best in taking it for you.
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