Wow Nelly, your post really made me think. When I don't take immodium and lomotil (usually on the weekends) I have a bad, mopey, low pathetic day as I am too scared to go out. However, immodium and lomotil don't work quickly for me. They take around 3 hours. I take them both together. On Fridays I have an early morning meeting I have to attend. I get up at 5am, take one of each and then take one more of each at 7.20am (the meeting is at 8). When I do this I usually (but not always) can make it through the meeting. Unfortunately this constipates me, I don't have any bm's Sat or Sunday so I don't take anything and am scared to go out. Mon am I usually go heaps and have D and am late for school.
The reason I didn't take it for 3 days that week is that on the Monday I went to see a Psychologist (on my Dr's recommendation) to help me deal with the anxiety. She said I need to let my anxiety build up so 'we can grab it and deal with it', this might me standing in front of a class, wearing dark clothing and incontinence pants and have an accident while I am teaching. When I have done this (and it would need 6 sessions seeing her for counselling to do this) we can work on my anxiety. So, my thinking was, (apart from this being the worst advice possible) that I can do this on my own if I have to, so I stopped taking the imodium and lomotil and went to school for 3 days feeling very anxious all the time. On the Thursday I had an attack just before lunch (mine are almost always in the morning) hence the original post. I love imodium and lomotil but they involve me in a constant juggling act which makes life difficult, and sometimes they don't work. Lomotil by itself stopped working for me over 2 years ago. Immodium over a year ago which is why I take both.
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Re: does anyone else have bad days right out of the blue?
