Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: HELP, I'm Pulling my Hair Out

When someone has her gall bladder removed there's no holding tank for the bile acids made by the liver. This can result in those acids being dumped directly into the digestive system too much, too fast. This understandably annoys the heck out of the digestive system which responds by trying to get rid of everything in it as fast as possible. Voila! Diarrhea. Questran binds those bile acids and keeps them from annoying the digestive tract which eases the diarrhea.

Your doctor seems a little confused - excess bile acid is not the same as IBS - but perhaps he thinks you have both excess bile acid and IBS.

I'd much rather have excess bile acid controllable by a safe med than IBS so I'd find out if there are any undesirable side-effects from the Questran and if not, I'd probably give it a try. (Although I'd stick with Heather's eating guidelines until I saw how the Questran was working out.)

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