Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards

Thanks for sharing this. As we all know how much a positive outlook means and how much worrying can affect IBS it's important that those of us who do need to use loperamide as a daily maintenance drug feel we can expect it to keep working. Otherwise there is a huge risk that we make ourselves ill by worrying.

I don't know what factors would affect how the drug works over time, i.e. if it has to do with how much you take, if you vary the dose of keep it constant, et.c. It would be interesting to know what the time frame has been for those who say the drug worked for them at first but not after a while. (Thus maybe making it possible to feel that if you've made it for a certain amount of time, then it's likely that the drug will keep on working for you.)

There are people who have used Imodium or a generic for many years and for whom it still works without any problems. That's great. However it seems the bad stuff tends to stick to the brain more efficiently somehow, so therefore I feel it's important to be a bit careful when writing about treatments, whether it be diet, drugs, therapy, exercise or whatever.

/Ulrika, IBS-D

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