advice please
#82946 - 06/24/04 06:46 PM
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marjo
Reged: 01/13/04
Posts: 157
Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana
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I need some advice. I bought a new tea, with the following ingredients: lemon balm, linden flower, orange blossoms, chamomile, lavender flower, skull caps, passion flower, valeria root. It was decaf. Well I bought it Saturday and drank it over the weekend ,and on Monday, out of the blue I got D. Woke up in the a.m. with it also, but felt good otherwise. Then I started to drive to work, and got a terrible attack, so sudden, didn't make it back in time. I was mortified!!! Then I had D all day, and night. So I took 1 lomotil pill and it stopped. I ate all the right things during the day and at 2 a.m., woke up with terrible cramps, so then at 4:00, I took levsin, for the cramping. I felt lousy all day today. No relief! I have been off work for 3 days now. Could it have been the tea? Should I have taken something else for the symptons that I have? I have not had an attack, like this since last September, so using these meds is not real clear to me. Thanks in advance for any help.....
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Oh Dear!
#82949 - 06/24/04 07:00 PM
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Bevvy
Reged: 11/04/03
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Loc: Northwest Washington State
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Marjo, I've never heard of half those herbs in that tea, so I can't comment except to say this: if you've ruled out everything else, then I guess it's gotta be the tea.
However, I'm also a D person, and I had an attack like yours when I increased my SFS too much. I was at the maximum dosage, didn't realize it, and was increasing even MORE! Oh, I had BIG D and urgency and almost didn't make it. (Sorry you didn't; I can imagine how horrible that was for you!)
How much SFS are you taking, and have you just increased your dosage? Try dropping back a little on it and see if you don't do better. When I dropped back on my dosage, all the symptoms disappeared entirely.
And God bless Lomotil! (I know nothing about Levsin.) Have you considered Heather's peppermint caps as an anti-spasmodic? (I take Hyoscyamine, and, when it's really bad, I pull out the Big Gun: Donnatal!  )
Hope you're feeling better soon.
Bev
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Re: Oh Dear!
#82953 - 06/24/04 07:11 PM
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marjo
Reged: 01/13/04
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Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Bev, I don't take SFS. I've tried several and they don't agree with my system. I tried a peppermint cap a couple of weeks ago, didn't agree with me either. I am usually ok, as long as I stick to the diet. I have been stable for 9 months. My stomach is just cramping and churning as we speak, and I just want to feel better, darn it. I was suppose to go to Wisconsin after work tonight with my husband, to see our daughter and grandkids, but wasn't up to a 6 hour trip, so he went without me. I am having a pity party now!! 
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I have been there before. Nothing worse than not being able to make it to the bathroom. No one else can understand this except another IBSer. I am sorry that you had this experience.
Check your diet, if the tea is the only thing you have done differently then that was probably it.
Hope you are feeling better.
Janey
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Just FYI for Bev and anyone else:
Hyoscamine is the chemical name for Levsin and Nulev. We're all talking about the same drug.
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Re: Oh Dear!
#83028 - 06/25/04 06:07 AM
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mindyj
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I am so sorry you could not go on your trip! I have been known to have bad experiences with tea as well - Jasmine tea is almost as bad for me as coffee! So that may have been what set you off. I know it's hard when you think things are going well and then WHAMMO you're on the roller coaster again! Hope you feel better soon!
Min
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So sorry.
#83033 - 06/25/04 06:28 AM
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barbie
Reged: 04/22/04
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Loc: Texas
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Hi,
Darn that IBS for messing up your trip.  I know you must be feeling really low not to be able to see your daughter & grandkids. You definitely need the pity party!! Wish I could do something to make you feel better.
I really think it was the tea that did you in. But, think real hard.....could if have been anything else....maybe gum or mints or vitamins with sorbitol/mannitol? Vitamins with sorbitol is what really gave me an attack one time and it took me a week to figure it out.
If you get lonesome, go to the "living room board" and VENT all you want. We will be listening!
Feel better soon
Barbie
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Re: Oh Dear!
#83063 - 06/25/04 07:41 AM
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Bevvy
Reged: 11/04/03
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Loc: Northwest Washington State
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Marjo, I've never known a tea to have an affect on anyone that lasted as long as this did you. Four days? Yowza!
So how are you feeling this morning? Any better? Sorry you missed the trip; I know how you feel. Two years ago hubby and I were looking forward to celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary at a B&B on Puget Sound where we had made reservations -- a lush remodelled old Victorian overlooking the Sound, and our room had French doors opening onto the view, so that as we lay in bed we could watch the ferries sail by. It was SOOOO romantic!
NOT! I felt the rumblings early on, took my meds, but they did nothing, and by lunch time I was doubled over in pain. It was excruciating, so I pulled out the Big Gun (Donnatal), but it did nothing. I spent the entire anniversary in bed, sick as a dog, from the moment we got there until early the next morning. I could barely get out of bed and stumble to the car so Don could drive back home. I went to the hospital, where a catscan showed diverticulitis. They gave me a shot that my body rejected, and I spent the whole day in the hospital bathroom, vomiting --
My anniversary was a total nightmare! I felt soooooo cheated, and I could only imagine how my hubby must feel.
It left me with such a bad memory, I haven't ventured far from home since. A six-hour car ride? NO WAY!
Get better soon.
Bev
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