Enterolab Test Results ...sob

[Jody bee]

Tex,

I went ahead and ordered the individual vitamins to get started. I'll post an update once I have taken them for awhile.

[tex]

Hi Jody,

Good luck with the treatment. I hope that you'll be able to see benefits relatively quickly.

Tex

[seeljanerun]

I have always found the SSRI-causation interesting. The onset of my MC coincided with taking zoloft, and I was going to the bathroom 20+ times a day. Two doctors, one a GI specialist, told me that in no way possible could it be the zoloft. Low and behold, as soon as I went off of it, my diarrhea immediately lessened to about 10 times a day. A few years later, my doctor prescribed paxil, and it was immediately back to 20+.

It has been 7 years or so now, and obviously, I'm not healed. I can't prove that it was the zoloft that caused my MC (It could be argued that I would have developed it anyway due to stress and that the SSRI just made it worse), but I really feel like drug companies should include it as a possible side-effect/complication so people are at least aware of it. I read through all the side-effect information given with the prescription, and there was no mention of it at all.

Ultimately, I still trusted my doctors at that point, which made me feel like I was a little crazy! Clearly I'm not the only one who has been affected by it though. [/quote]

[tex]

It has been 7 years or so now, and obviously, I'm not healed.

So much for the old BS about MC running it's course in roughly 3 years, and resolving on it's own.

In general, doctors are loathe to admit that the drugs they prescribe cause serious side effects, let alone admit that they sometimes cause life-altering diseases such as MC. They make their living writing prescriptions, so they prefer to simply ignore most of the bad things that happen to some patients because of those drugs. You and I might do the same thing if we were in their shoes, because we probably couldn't sleep at night, if we actually took all of it seriously.

The FDA has probably never heard of MC, and even if they have, they almost surely consider it to be "just a little diarrhea" (as some GI docs have been known to describe it), and since the disease was originally considered to be "rare", it's not likely that they will ever bother calling for such warnings on those drug labels.

But rest assured that we have many, many members who can trace the origins of their MC back to the use of medications prescribed by their doctor, including tricyclic antidepressants , SSRIs, SNRIs, NSAIDs, antibiotics, bisphosphonanates, beta-blockers, statins, and others. Some people are luckier than most of us, and if they recognize the connection in time, and discontinue using the drug, they may go into remission and remain there (as long as they avoid that family of drugs). But many others are not so fortunate, and when their MC is triggered, gluten sensitivity, and other food sensitivities are also triggered, and then it can become extremely tough to get off the merry-go-round.

[seeljanerun]

"just a little diarrhea" my butt!

I guess on the plus side, we are now all educated/experienced enough to know that we need to be our own advocates to some extent when it comes to medical care..