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About Lotronex       06/01/05 09:31 AM Edit Reply Quote Sand Reged: 12/13/04 Posts: 4490 Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D) Lotronex was pulled from the market temporarily. The outcry from IBS sufferers who had found relief from it prompted the FDA and GlaxoSmithKline (the makers of Lotronex) to make it available again under controlled conditions. Here are a couple of Website where you can read about Lotronex: Lotronex Home Page FDA Announcement If I understand correctly, the 11 women who died, died of ischemis colitis. The second Website explains what that is. I spoke with my GI guy about Lotronex. He is in the prescribing program and feels it is a very valuable drug for intractable cases of IBS-D. He claims that it is safe if patients who are on it stop taking it and call their physicians at the first sign of constipation. My GI is a good guy, bright and knowledgeable, but I think he's too quick to prescribe and especially too quick to prescribe drugs without a long track record. My own feeling about Lotronex is this: I'd try everything other reasonable solution first, but if my IBS had continued to be as bad as it was before I started Heather's diet, I would have definitely been willing to risk Lotronex. My advice is that if you are taking Zelnorm and it is important to you that it stay on the market, write or call the FDA to say so. It might be even better to contact the makers of Zelnorm, express your concerns about it being pulled, and ask them what you can do to influence the process. -------------------- [Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton] Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator

Entire thread Talked to my GI doc, claims he knows the cause of IBS jules 05/31/05 07:17 AM For Jules..When I was pregnant! mickz 06/02/05 04:24 AM Re: For Jules..When I was pregnant! jules 06/02/05 06:24 AM Re: For Jules..When I was pregnant! mickz 06/02/05 10:16 AM Re: For Jules..When I was pregnant! jules 06/02/05 05:28 AM Talked to my GI doc, Jules - Fiber, Fiber, Fiber HeidnOut 06/01/05 05:12 PM Jules, we want to see a photo of you pregnant! ---nt-- BL 06/01/05 04:46 PM Fennel tea is absolutely safe during pregnancy - it's also given to newborn infants Heather 05/31/05 12:19 PM heather/ additional re: zelnorm pulse 05/31/05 12:43 PM Re: heather/ additional re: zelnorm bellshel32 06/01/05 01:15 PM Re: heather/ additional re: zelnorm pulse 06/01/05 03:26 PM Re: heather/ additional re: zelnorm bellshel32 06/02/05 11:12 AM Re: heather/ additional re: zelnorm john g 06/01/05 02:14 AM Re: heather/ additional re: zelnorm Kemi 05/31/05 06:15 PM Re: heather/ additional re: zelnorm jenny_k 06/01/05 05:20 PM This is terrifying... Heather 05/31/05 05:51 PM Re: This is terrifying... jules 05/31/05 05:54 PM Serotonin is definitely implicated in IBS... Heather 05/31/05 06:00 PM Re: Serotonin is definitely implicated in IBS... jules 06/01/05 05:29 AM Jules...I wanted to send you a private message... Shelli73 06/01/05 10:13 PM Jules BL 06/01/05 02:08 PM Re: Serotonin is definitely implicated in IBS... john g 06/01/05 02:10 AM About Lotronex Sand 06/01/05 09:31 AM How much is Lotronex? Nelly 06/02/05 09:15 AM Re: How much is Lotronex? Sand 06/02/05 04:57 PM It is exorbitantly expensive, as is Zelnorm. If you have no insurance coverage... Heather 06/02/05 06:03 PM Re: It is exorbitantly expensive, as is Zelnorm. If you have no insurance coverage... pulse 06/02/05 06:50 PM Thanks everybody for the info-- Nelly 06/03/05 10:59 AM Re: Thanks everybody for the info-- Sand 06/03/05 01:20 PM It had that effect on my mother!!!! BL 06/01/05 02:12 PM I'm so sorry to hear that. How fortunate she was able to make a full recovery. -nt- Sand 06/01/05 04:03 PM Re: Serotonin is definitely implicated in IBS... bamagirl 06/01/05 07:27 AM Re: Serotonin is definitely implicated in IBS... Kemi 06/01/05 06:31 AM Butting in--- bellshel32 06/01/05 01:18 PM Took Zelnorm last night.... SCgirl 06/01/05 10:20 AM I used to get that on a weekly basis BEFORE the Zelnorm! _Willow 06/01/05 06:21 PM Doctors put people on drugs that harm all the time! Cyndy 06/01/05 06:49 AM Re: Doctors put people on drugs that harm all the time! Kemi 06/01/05 12:56 PM Re: Doctors put people on drugs that harm all the time! Cyndy 06/01/05 01:05 PM Re: Doctors put people on drugs that harm all the time! Kemi 06/02/05 06:01 AM There's full info on Zelnorm in the IBS Glossary... Heather 06/02/05 11:16 AM Oh my! Kristin940 06/01/05 01:01 PM Re: Talked to my GI doc, claims he knows the cause of IBS bamagirl 05/31/05 08:29 AM Re: Talked to my GI doc, claims he knows the cause of IBS jules 05/31/05 12:14 PM Hi, Jules BL 05/31/05 06:00 PM Re: Talked to my GI doc, claims he knows the cause of IBS bamagirl 05/31/05 12:51 PM ginger tea? Lyndsey 05/31/05 12:26 PM Re: ginger tea? jules 05/31/05 12:51 PM Re: ginger tea? jules 05/31/05 01:09 PM Re: Talked to my GI doc, claims he knows the cause of IBS Yoda (formerly Hans) 05/31/05 08:24 AM

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