Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | what do you think? id appreciate some advice

hi guys, i would appreciate some andvice. at the moment i take immodium (2 caps) twice a week- i find i have 3 or 4 good days, 2 normal bms a day, then ill have a bad day- one lot of fairly bad d, but only once and then can get on with day, and when i have took my 2 immodium, then ill have another 3 or 4 good days. and same things happen. now tome this is quite positive, because i have much more good days than bad and i was thinking the immodium helps but obv my fibre and diet (dairy free etc, soluble fibre)is too, because the immodium used to only last one day and after my first bm its my fibre helping me to keep having normal bms for the next few days.
but i was talking with my mom (not a doctor i know) and she was saying perhaps its just the immodium lasts in my system for 3-4 days and runs out giving me bad d, i.e its not my fibre or diet, just the immodium. so now i feel i dont know if my hard efforts are working and if i am relying on tablets so much????
also i keep getting piles/ anal fissures because i go from d- normal- d again, does anone know if taking immodium increases these? i read somewhere that it tightens the spincture muscles?

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