Does anyone know anything about motofen?
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Does anyone know anything about motofen?
I tried entocort and it didnt work. I have collagenous colitis. My doctor just proscribed me motofen, which he said was just approved for microscopic colitis. A search on the forums here turned up zero results and I haven't been able to find anything on line as far as its efficacy in regards to microscopic colitis..... never mind.... just saw at this site http://www.drugs.com/cdi/motofen.html that you shouldn't take it if you take sodium oxybate (ghb); I take that for narcolepsy. But maybe if its effective for colitis some of you can benefit it from it if its any good.
Hi,
Welcome to the board. I doubt that Motofen has been specifically approved to treat MC, because it has no anti-inflammatory properties. It's approved to treat diarrhea, of course, so your doctor was probably just kind of enhancing the facts, to make it sound as though he were actually prescribing something useful. You can buy Imodium, without a prescription, and it usually works better than the narcotic-based drugs in this class. All that Motofen is, is another prescription antiperistaltic medication, (IOW, it's only mode of action is to slow down motility). Since it's an opioid-based drug, it also contains atropine, which will cause very unpleasant symptoms, (such as tacycardia, etc.), if someone tries to take too much of it, which makes Motofen similar to Lomotil. It will do nothing to treat the cause of MC, though it can be used to temporarily slow down the diarrhea that MC causes.
Have you tried one of the mesalamine-based drugs, such as Lialda, Apriso, Colazal, Pentasa, Asacol, etc.? They're usually not as effective as Entocort, for treating MC, but some people have good luck with them, and at least they do provide an anti-inflammatory benefit.
Again, welcome aboard, and I hope you can find some helpful information here, for controlling your CC.
Tex
Welcome to the board. I doubt that Motofen has been specifically approved to treat MC, because it has no anti-inflammatory properties. It's approved to treat diarrhea, of course, so your doctor was probably just kind of enhancing the facts, to make it sound as though he were actually prescribing something useful. You can buy Imodium, without a prescription, and it usually works better than the narcotic-based drugs in this class. All that Motofen is, is another prescription antiperistaltic medication, (IOW, it's only mode of action is to slow down motility). Since it's an opioid-based drug, it also contains atropine, which will cause very unpleasant symptoms, (such as tacycardia, etc.), if someone tries to take too much of it, which makes Motofen similar to Lomotil. It will do nothing to treat the cause of MC, though it can be used to temporarily slow down the diarrhea that MC causes.
Have you tried one of the mesalamine-based drugs, such as Lialda, Apriso, Colazal, Pentasa, Asacol, etc.? They're usually not as effective as Entocort, for treating MC, but some people have good luck with them, and at least they do provide an anti-inflammatory benefit.
Again, welcome aboard, and I hope you can find some helpful information here, for controlling your CC.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Hi thanks for the info.
I haven't tried anything else. I was just diagnosed a little over a month ago. I'm still taking entocort. I just read online that the company who manufactures it says to take 9mg once a day. My pharmacy (i'm not sure what my doc said) labelled my pill body "take 3 mg 3 times per day". Does it make a difference? Could that be why after a month on entocort it hasn't really done anything?
Anyways my microscopic colitis isn't terrible. It doesn't give me diarrhea. It's just very very annoying.
I haven't tried anything else. I was just diagnosed a little over a month ago. I'm still taking entocort. I just read online that the company who manufactures it says to take 9mg once a day. My pharmacy (i'm not sure what my doc said) labelled my pill body "take 3 mg 3 times per day". Does it make a difference? Could that be why after a month on entocort it hasn't really done anything?
Anyways my microscopic colitis isn't terrible. It doesn't give me diarrhea. It's just very very annoying.