Bentyl

I have been noticing that a lot of people are taking bentyl. I have a prescription that I use occasionally, but I don't notice much improvement. I am taking a sublingual tab to help ease the clenching feeling after repeat trips to the bathroom in the morning. Is this the reason that others are taking it? Just looking for some advice on how it is used and what symptoms that it helps.

Post Edited (Lr21) : 4/14/2014 10:23:25 AM (GMT-6)

I had high hopes but started during flare and it made me so lethargic I laid down like I had the flu and quit before 48 hours into it.

I was taking hyoscyamine tablets (not sublingual) but recently quit. I was taking them to cut down on frequency due to bowel spasms but really didn't think they did much. I quit them once before due to that but got a little worse so I resumed. Just recently quit them again because I didn't really think they were helping and got a little worse again. I panicked and reordered but decided not to take them this time and I have actually gotten better. UC can be very tricky. With me my volume of eating really throws a monkey wrench into how I perceive treatments to be working. There have been several times I started something new and got better only to realize a week or two later I was getting worse. I finally realized that during times I was losing a few pounds my BM's decreased, causing me to falsely believe that a new treatment was working when it actually wasn't. The reverse was also true as when I went through periods of gaining a few pounds due to eating more I would have more BM's. Bottom line, I finally determined that the Hyoscamine really wasn't doing enough to warrant taking. Many take these things for pain and it helps but I've never had any pain.

Personally, Bentyl has always helped me. But like I said, *at least for me* it depends on the dosage. When I am really bad, I take 20mgs and it seems to take the edge off. Does it get rid of the cramping and spasms completely...no. But I find that it helps.

Lr, I don't know how to break down the dosage between sublingual and oral, but perhaps you should try the oral or possible even ask if the sublinqual comes in a higher dose? I know that sublingual works faster then oral but I've never tried sublingual.

hyoscyamine is actually brand name Levsin. But it's similar to Bentyl.