Metamucil - works a treat

and before taking metamucil, were you more prone to have d or c ?

I've been using it again over the past week to help reduce the number of times I'm going to the bathroom in the morning, was going 4 times in a few hours time, now I'm back down to just once a day. I cannot say I have any diarrhea with this issue I'm having as the watery/light reddish appearance is only on the toilet paper and what starts out in the toilet is not diarrhea but not totally solid either but then it goes to solid. I just know I hope tomorrow I can get some enemas to help with the small amount of bleeding I am seeing on the toilet paper, have seen none in the toilet other than the one small clot looking spot today. Tomorrow can't come fast enough.

Witsend....hope you can get the enemas. Keep us posted how you do on them.

Pharmacist...good to heat you're having some improvement with the metamucil.
q

Bemos enema, I'm using the Metamucil powder. Always have, never have had any issues. My gastro doctor also wanted me using stool softeners when I thought I needed them but my problem has never been with hard stools but I do have some on hand.

Had my appointment this afternoon and my doctor felt the issues with the watery/bloody stuff I'm seeing mostly on the toilet paper, very little in the toilet she feels is still inflammation from when I had the C-Diff bacteria. She did prescribe Mesalamine enemas and I asked about the Metamucil despite the bleeding and she said she was going to suggest that and it was good for me to take that to get me back on normal track even with the bleeding! So if and when I get the enemas I will start using them. Probably won't be tonight, that always seem to have to be ordered and that drug store has the rudest Pharmacists. Many are foreign and they are the ones that are hateful, like the one I ended up talking to 10 minutes ago after having to wait. And again after 6 hours they see no prescription from my doctor and it was sent between 3 and 3:30. I went through that with them back in January, the same thing. Never got my prescription that was sent electronically. Not to mention they had one ready for me the other day, called mid morning and said it was ready, and I go at 5 to pick it up and sit in the drive thru 20 minutes while they look for it and they can't find it. The most incompetent bunch of pharmacists ever at that location.

I love reading this kind of thread! Its great! I will keep it in mind! Thank you for sharing!

(Quincy is our treasure)!

Ha Quincy, I'd like to shoot them back in a cannon to where they came from. Won't say more but it is being filled by another Walgreens location where the people are nicer. Will get you farther. It is being verified by the pharmacist at another location.

Wow, Q I am so sorry that you are dealing with that with the new Dr.and office. I know how much you liked/respected your other Dr that you had for years. Let us know how things are going. It is like a soap opera around this forum....as the toilet paper turns... lol.
B

I apologised because I think all patients should be treated with respect regardless of how busy you are and how under pressure you are. I work in a hospital, so the demands are even greater. Being a clinical pharmacist (and working on gastroenterology wards) I experience UC and crohn's disease cases at home and at work! Fun times! But it's good that I can actually relate with these patients as a sufferer and medical professional.

The only thing I wish us pharmacists could do was invent or design a drug that can actually heal the lining of the bowel permanently. But it's just a matter of time.

Got my prescription today and was only $8.00 for 28 enemas with two refills. Hope for some relief moving forward.