imodium

Hi schmoo,
Immodium works wonders and I always carry it with me (1 bottle at home, 1 in my purse & 1 in my desk at work). With that said, Immodium is not good long term. I say take it only when you absolutely feel like you have to. I take it once every month or 2 when I have a prior engagement and I can't seem to get off the throne. I also take it before ANY road trip or if I'm flying anywhere. I'm not sure how well Pepto works for cramps but you may want to try that for the D instead (it also doesn't give you C like Immodium).
Also, I think you should speak to your doc about your cramps and get an antispasmodic that works for you.

Imodium is how the docs spell it when they write an order for it.

I usually take two Imodium daily - have been for a dozen or so years just to be a little safer.  I also take Lomotil if I am in a situation that will not allow me easy access to a toilet - which is quite often.  I have had IBS for over twenty years.   

Thanks for the welcome aboard - I have IBS-D. Was at the Hospital today. Yep - had an appointment with the GI doctor. The GI Docs always ask me what over the counter meds I take to ease the D. Imodium is what I tell them and they never flinch or warn me about any adverse problems for long term Imodium usage - there have been many days when I found it necessary take four to six Imodium tablets. Been doing this for twenty plus years.

Hi Toadman,
Welcome!! You are usually going to get all kind of opinions about Imodium. If your doctor has told you to take it than that is another story but I was abusing Imodium on my own everyday for many, many years. My GI doc is thinking that this has caused my diverticulosis. I was literally constipating myself and the pressure from not going was building and weakening my colon which caused the pockets. This is what my GI thinks. I'm not sure but it makes sense to me. However I am not a doctor, I would follow your doctor's advice.

Dehydrated banana chips. I'm not lying about those things, girls (and boys). They'll stop you up naturally in a heartbeat. In fact, I've been right as rain since consuming a bag of them (judiciously--never more than a third of the bag at a time). I dropped my twice a day calcium pill and dropped my Welchol down to once a day from twice a day too. And even now I'm a tad on the constipated side a lot of mornings. But after daily diarrhea for two months, I'm not complaining! I certainly don't think the banana chips alone cured me, but before I ate them I needed more medicine than I do now, so maybe there's a connection there. Maybe whatever was wrong with my intestines finally healed up at about the same time I ate the banana chips, or maybe they helped finish the healing by sopping up whatever excess water and the like I had floating around in there. I do credit them for my survival of the grease-fat-fast food binge I went on the weekend after eating them; fried chicken sandwhiches, loaded baked potatoes, sausage and bacon, bratwurst, pizza--didn't phase me!

Good luck with the scope! Please come back and let us know how it went.
Take care...