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Posted 8/20/2013 8:27 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for your reply, i took my sachet today with orange and grapefruit juice.The grapefruit masked the gritiness of the powders on my teeth and gums. I just checked my box it does contain aspartame and the manufacturer is Bristol Myers Pharmaceuticals in Uxbridge.
Can I ask my chemist to get from a different suppliers.
I have noticed i am quite nauseus for 2/3 hours after taking powders, has anyone else experienced this
Posted 8/21/2013 3:30 AM (GMT 0)
Hi there, just make sure your med doesn't have aspartame. It's made from phenylalanine so if you see that word I think you need to be wary.

I like to use the round plastic container with screw top lid. Shaking your juice with this med. makes it less gritty. I still drink it very fast and then follow it with water, brushing my teeth. But I also like to take it with applesauce, that might be easier on your stomach. If you use applesauce make sure you drink water after you consume it.

If you don't notice formed stool, less D and episodes that make you run to the bathroom repeatedly, this med may not be for you. Sometimes I wonder if I would be better not to be on anything but I work PT and I can't be having D right before I leave for work! Heavens, no that would not work. I do think this med is helping me, but not 100% of the time.

Good luck to you.
Posted 8/22/2013 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
Day 5 and had a bad day today so I am now wondering if its worth continuing with sachets. I asked my doctor yesterday to change my prescription as I de been issued with the "light" version of the powders, and said to him I didnt want to take the one with artificial sugars. He has said if the powders are not working 5 days in give up. I then said well what can I try now then, his response was we have given you everything we possibly can to try and elieviate your condition, to no avail, Il give you a prescription for Loperamide u will have to just grin and bear it. I tried Loperamide 2 years ago!!!
Im sooooooooooooo annoyed, step into my shoes for a week or so and see if you can grin and bear it.
Im now thinking about changing to another practice. There must be something out there that works, I feel like I have been left to suffer now with no alternative offered mad
Im off on holiday next week first hol in 4 years, and now Im working myself up as il have to dose myself up with Loperamide and keep my fingers crossed.
Had I known I would be left like this I would never have agered to my gall bladder being removed, who can say whether I would have got more gallstones???????
Doctors!!!!!! I sometimes wonder!!!!!
Posted 8/27/2013 2:31 PM (GMT 0)
I had horrible D like you all have stated for many years. I heard about cholesteramine on a tv show on tlc called medical mysterys. one of the episodes a woman was suffering from chronic d and her doctor linked it to a slow emptying gall bladder. the doctor named the syndrome habba syndrom, after himself, Dr. Habba. Anyway, i had some tests done and it was determined that my gallbladder was slow, so i asked my doc for a Rx. The drug worked wonders for me too! I took it for a couple years and it gave me freedom i had not had for some time. However, i have weened myself off of it and replaced it with Citrucel twice a day and the D has managed to stay away. I now have low vitamin B12 and D. I read that cholesteramine powder can cause these vitamin levels to drop.
Posted 9/20/2013 8:37 AM (GMT 0)
Hi! I had undergone Gallbladder Surgery last January. Since then I am suffering from Diarrhea. I had consulted a number of doctors and had done all sorts of blood test, stool test, Colonoscopy , Sonography, the results of which are normal every time. I have lost almost ten kgs. of my weight. Recently I consulted a doctor and he prescribed me the Drug " Questran". Its a oral suspension and I am adviced to take half of the sachet 15 mins before breakfast and the other half after 1 hour of my breakfast. But itz not of much help. I go to the loo once I wake up in the morning and I have to again go after I have taken my breakfast. Do any one have any idea about the drug m being prescribed. I am very depressed and down. Please help.
Posted 9/20/2013 8:20 PM (GMT 0)
I believe Questran is the named brand of cholestyramine. So you should notice improvement from it.

Even though I'm on cholestyramine sometimes it seems to less effective than when I first tried it. I recently skimmed old topics here on the HW website and stumbled upon one the mentioned Sudafed 12 Hour might have a desired side effect for IBS. The person who responded to that topic said the drug in Sudafed 12 hour is the one that used to be prescribed for D, year ago, the past 3 days I have taken it after breakfast and I'm not having the dumping episodes I've had lately. Try it if Questran isn't for you, you want Sudafed 12 hour with this exact med:
pseudoephedrene hydrochloride.
Posted 9/21/2013 2:45 PM (GMT 0)
I've gone off Sandoz's cholestyramine. Just realized Sucralose is in this medication. It wasn't really helping me anyway.

Read the ingredients of all these medications carefully. For example, my husband needs Metamucil each night and if he takes it his diverticulosis is under control, but it's hard to find it with sugar. So many light versions with artificial sweeteners in them.

I can see someday these medications no longer having sugar in them. It seems like it's going that way.
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