Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Update

Been using ketotifen for 5 days now.
Started with 1mg in the evening. The next day I had lots of side effects: very tired, dizzy, little nauseous, bit of a headache/full head and very quickly irritated!
So I'm building it up very slowly now (started with 1/2mg in the evening). Yesterday tried the 1mg again, and still side effects, but I think it's getting better.

But nothing to say about the effects on my symptoms yet. Symptoms are now under control again (for a few weeks-also because of mebeverine/hypno?). But my diet is very very bad (6 ingredients). So my goal is to introduce food back.

Spoke to the GI dr today. He told me I could try out the best dosage myself. Because of the known side effects, he thought it would be better to start slowly. That's why he prescibed a low dose at first.

I read about the side effects, but wasn't aware they were so heavy! I'm actually a little stunned about the high dosages in the paper (start directly with 2x 2mg; I think I would be zombied out all day!)

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PI-IBS-C/A nausea & very bad gastric pain
meds: lansoprazol+macrogol
started EFI +FODMAPs 1/2011. 'Relapse' for 8 months. Now partly back on track again with the diet..

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