Hi Guys,
Ok...alot of you read my post this past week re: possibly being allergic
to imodium. Here's the thing...I felt the best I've felt in over a year while
I was taking them (1/day as a preventative) This am I got up with problems
again and I think the reason is that the imodium is totally out of my system
My GI just started me this week on 10mg. of Elavil, but it's too early for that to begin to do anything, I'm sure.
I went to my chiro today and amazingly enough this whole past week that I've had the Imodium in my system, my back has been perfect and I've shown NO signs of any chemical overload in my system, the whole time I had that rash. He said if I would have been allergic to the Imodium, that other things in my body would have begun to deteriorate, but they never did. (Ironically, he told me today that I'm showing signs of having a chemical overload now which I'm sure is the Elavil)He said the rash actually seemed to be a good thing because whatever it was doing, my system was healing and doing very well. He told me that there is a difference b/w being allergic to something and having a sensitivity to something. If I was allergic to Imodium I would have had problems right away and I've been taking 2 Imodium for attacks for about 2 month now--maybe once/week. Plus, it took 2 weeks for the Imodium to cause a rash when I began using it as a prev. The rash was never over my whole body, nor was it very bad. So we're thinking it could be a sensitivity to Imodium not an allergic reaction.
So here's what I'm thinking of doing. I may try to take 1 Imodium every other day or every 3rd day and see if the rash stays gone and see if that would be enough in my system to give me stability again. I talked to my daughter who's a RN and she thot that would be ok, unless that gives me a rash as well. What do you all think?
Has anyone every tried Kaopectate as a preventative?
Thanx for all you guys input! You're all great!!
Janene
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