MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Pharmacy has been out of prescription colestipol, which I take for my MC, for almost a month due to shortages. After a web search, I came across a supplement called Banatrol and ordered it while resorting to Imodium as a stopgap. I tried Banatrol and after two weeks dropped the Imodium--lo and behol...

As a retired virologist, I got vaccinated at the first opportunity, and was eagerly looking forward to traveling overseas again! I have booked 6 trips for 2022. My microcolitis is relatively well-controlled by colestipol so that I no longer fear accidents when abroad (although I was still traveling ...

Here's another thought I had after my liquid diarrhea turned to constipation then to normal after hernia with mesh surgery. About a week before my surgery I had a bout of horrible diarrhea despite my usual dose of colestipol, and it didn't respond to loperamide either. Then it got better, only to re...

Hi Tex I am now 2 weeks post hernia repair and still need medication and suppositories for b.m. This, after 5 years of MC when I was never constipated except perhaps from too much colestipol or loperamide before my scans so that I wouldn't have an accident in the scanner. In addition, I had liquid d...

I'm no longer experiencing constipation, and things appear amazingly normal. I am just waiting for the dam to break. I will see the surgeon in one week, if I haven't reverted to diarrhea by then I will have questions for him--and if he is just as perplexed as I am, I will ask my GI doc--although I d...

About a month after my MC diagnosis, I developed a pain in my LLQ that coincided with a bulge in my abdomen that I could sometimes make go away by pressure, but sometimes pressure only made it worse. Then I tried hot baths, and that worked for a while. Then nothing worked, I changed GI docs and got ...

I find Mg++ causes heavy diarrhea, so I never take it in pill form.

I am scheduled for an LLQ hernia repair next Monday-I assume it is unrelated to my MC. Since my BP is so high (190/90 by the MD's measurement; more in the 160:80 by home measurement), the surgeon said I should take BP med and to consult my PCP. He prescribed amlodipine 5 mg. It lowered BP, but also ...

In addition to microcolitis, which currently is being treated with colestipol, I have a hernia in my LLQ area. (Spigelian?) Actually, I have had it for some time--as the first symptom of pain in that area occurred 2 days after my colonoscopy in Feb. 2017 that diagnosed the diarrhea that I had had fo...

I have had microcolitis for probably 5 years now, but didn't go for diagnosis until a year after symptoms appeared. I was on daily Imodium for a year before I told my PCR, who sent me for colonoscopy. I got the diagnosis, but after the colonoscopy I started having real pain in my LLQ and a CT scan s...

I am a PhD virologist, and I finally got my second Pfizer shot this week with no complications either time. The only problem was getting an appointment for the second. If you aren't computer literate and at the computer all day and most of the night, you will miss your chance to get a slot! I am in ...

I have done this, too! And I really enjoyed overseas travel until this year of course. I was mainly helped by the fact that long air travel is constipating, at least for me--except one time that it wasn't, on my way to Indonesia. Luckily the bathroom wasn't far away (unlike other travelers I try to ...

I am curious about this as well. I have been to two GI docs, the first prescribed Pepto-Bismol tablets, 3 x 3 per day, for 6 weeks, which the NP said would "cure" me. I was doing pretty well at end of six weeks, quit taking and the diarrhea returned within 2 days. My next GI doc prescribed...