I've been on it over 10 months! My doctor thinks it's fine to keep taking it (but he's a nut case). But when I called the company, they told me they could not guarentee the safety after 12 weeks. They said that they have people who do take it continuously, but that they would not attest to the safety or the effectiveness of it.
I don't know if it was working or not...yet, I was deathly afraid to go off of it..just in case.
I also was taking one 6 mg tablet in am, and one before dinner. I reduced the second dose to 1/2 a pill beggining 7/27. Then went down to 1/2 pill in am too. Then reduced pm to 1/4 pill, then only 1/2 pill in am. Now, I'm at 1/4 pill in am and soon will be at zero pills.
I am attempting to try and take psyllium to get some SFS help. So far, the BMs are actually better than with the zelnorm, thank goodness.
As you can see from my original post here Zelnorm I was quite scared to do this.
I honestly don't know how this is going to work out for me. It's only been about 2 1/2 weeks. I suggest you cut back by 1/4 a tablet portions maybe. I think you may be cutting down too quickly.
Are you doing anything to "replace" the zelnorm...like taking flaxmeal (I do) or slippery elm, or maybe increasing the SFS a bit at a time? Maybe try increasing IF little by little to compensate for the loss of zelnorm.
Let us know how it goes for you! I am very interested in how others are doing this as I go off my zelnorm.
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~ Beth
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