Posted 11/17/2013 2:24 PM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone! I've never posted in this forum but I'm part of the Healing Well family in the Chronic Pain forum. I'm on both long acting and short acting narcotics and have been since 2008. In September I ended up hospitalized for five days because of belly pain and so much stool in my colon and intestines that they really thought I had a blockage. Long story short... My GI thought I had IBS with constipation or Narcotic Bowel Syndrome and put me on Linzess 290mcg.
During all this, I lost my job and I've been put on Medicaid untiliIam able to work again. My GI's office refuses to see me because of this. They wouldn't even let me pay cash for my follow up after my PM changed my medications (my GI tried to add my oxycontin back and all the issues returned with a vengeance). I haf to find a new GI and I met him on Friday. He wants me to take the Linzess every other day instead of everyday like my original GI did. He thinks that the issue was moreso the Oxycontin and wants me to use the Linzess as a preventative measure.
Have any of you taken Linzess like this before? I was told to take it fdaily but if I had somewhere I had to go, I could skip one dose but not to do that often.
Thanks for your help!
Linds