Re: When should I take Bentyl?
08/09/04 01:28 PM
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I have been taking Bentyl since October and I did get the kinda blurred vision thing they say is a side effect which made me want to sleep, but that quickly went away. I take the 20 mg pills and am told to take them 4 times a day before I eat. So I was kinda anal about it when I first started the pills and took them every 6 hours of the day (6am, noon, 6pm and midnight). Well now I take them when I feel like I need them just because I've gotten much better and I don't want to become immune to them if that's possible.
My doctor even told me that these pills were very often prescribed to pregnant women for morning sickness and are therefore something that I could really just take forever.
Anyways, I take them like they say, before I eat-and sometimes that's like a 1/2 hour and sometimes as close as right before I stick food in my mouth. But a lot of times, if I haven't taken one, and then I'm not feeling good, I will take one. They are fine on an empty stomach and even if you aren't planning on eating after you take it. I'll take one at night before bed with my vitamin just cause.
I have a friend that takes Bentyl too, and I believe that hers is a 10mg pill, and she told me that her doctor also tells her to take them if she's cramping, and if it's bad to take 2 (which is then equal to the one I take).
And now that I've taken these for so long and have stopped being so worried, I have taken pills as close as within a couple hours of each other and have been just fine.
The only thing I would say you need to "worry about" is just the getting-used-to of them, which again really wasn't as bad as most pills you hear about. I only experienced the blurred vision and some fatigue even that wasn't that bad--especially for how much they seemed to help me! Good luck with them and let me know if you have anymore questions I can help you with!
Brittany
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