welchol or questran

Ask your doctor about Welchol; it's a cholesterol medicine that binds bile salts. I had mine taken out in February of last year and tried to "tough it out," but after a doctor put me on Welchol, I rarely ever get sick after eating.

You may want to ask the doc if he can try a bile binding resin like questran or somehting like Welchol. There's also the possibility that calcium could help. But it has to be in a specific form and take ant specific times of the day. Google 'lnape and calcium,' and look at the information provided. The contraindication would be if he has a history of kidney stones or parathyroid problems.

One is to decrease the amount of fat you take in. In addition, you could ask your doc if you could try some questran, or another form of bile-binding resin. Another thing to try might be Welchol.

I took my vitamins while trying to become pregnant at opposite ends of the day from the Questran. Questran has been my lifesaver! However, my Ob-Gyn does not want me to take the drug while pregnant, but my family physician and fertility doctors okayed it. So, to be safe, I stopped taking the Questran the day after I found out I was pregnant. I have not completely conquered the situation, but I found a "diet" from the University of Pittsburgh Hospital.

t get the diarreha under control, you may want to talk to your doc about using a bile-binding resin like questran or a product like Welchol.

I had mine out at 23% and had bad diarrheah for 6 months. They can give you welchol or questran to help bind the stool if that happens. I also found out that sphincter of oddi was my problem that made the gallbladder go bad. If I would have known I had SOD then I would have waited a little while longer to get it out since now the SOD attacks are worse than the GB pain.

Surely this is a bad dream and I will wake up soon but I know it is not. I found out that Welchol and another drug called Colestipol may work better than Questran but neither are avaialable in Australia. I am going to start Creone next week and see if that changes the status qou, maybe it might help being a digestive enzyme. Anyway if anyone out there can offer me any advice, please do. I am desperate, very desperate, the clock is ticking as far as time goes,and I am in the toilet, as usual.

If you do have the neurotxins, they use a med called Questran which is used to really detoxify your body and makes you feel a lot better. Anyone ever use this med? Questran has been used to treat cholsteral for years in the US.

I would assume they're giving you welchol for diarrhea and the Ami for GI spasms. This is a combination that is given to many (or combinations like it) when someone is experiencing unexplained abdominal pain (perhaps due to spasms) and diarrhea. Ami is used fairly frequently in GI problems, so don't consider it a 'head med.' It is, but in this case it's probably being used to work on the receptors in your GI tract - not your head, although it will do that, too.

Is there a pain killer that works for pain caused by Questran in the legs? Had gall bladder removed and now have constant diarrhea. I was given Questran to stop the diarrhea. (pain now is permament and I have stopped taking Questran) I was taking codeine between 120 and 180 mg a day. (pure codeine) It stopped the diarhea and leg pain quite well. Now after some years, doctor is shy about giving more.

Can anyone explain to me why I still had a heart attack even while taking the following meds atenenol 50mg bid, HCTZ 25mg daily, zetia 40mg daily, plavix 25mg daily, welchol 625mg bid. Also what is the chance of a second heart attack My Aortic Valve, Tricuspid Valve, and my Mitral Valve are failing because they are stenotic and regurgitative. The Aortic valve is in the worst shape of the three they tell me. I have psoriatic arthritis and ankolosing spondylitis. all joints are involved.

I answered your post about Questran first. After reading this, I think you'd be a good candidate for trying Questran. Secondly, you asked for any ideas. I have one. Don't go back to that second doctor!!!!! "Normal, just ignore it"!! LOL What a quacky thing to say to someone that is suffering with these symptoms!!!!!!

Hello, I am starting a new medicine for severe diarrhea. Has anyone taken Questran (cholestyramine)? Has it helped or cause worse problems. Does it actually stop the diarrhea? I am taking also Lomotil which has not helped much at all. I started it 2 days ago and have not noticed any change. If this med doesn't help than I will have to start on TPN. Thank you for any information you can give.

To Whom It May Concern- I am a 30 y/o female with a history of GI disturbance, mainly chronic diarrhea and abdominal spasms. I have been through the workups of both a full colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy. I've had my stool tested for parasites/infections. I've had the workup for bacterial overgrowth in the my small intesting as well. All workups are negative minus some mild nondescript inflammation on sigmoidoscopy.

Questran is a bile-binding resin. To my knowledge it does not bind acid, unfortunately. You might ask your doc about carafate - a product to 'coat the stomach' which might be of help if the problem is too much acid. But neither questran or carafate will help if a bile duct is blocked.

now i have to go to the doc on monday an beg for these tablets its soooo unfair i had no life for 2 years my child never went anywhere with me i couldnt manage to run to the loo with a buggy or catch a bus or walk to nursery so my hubby did practically everything like that or came with me to have the baby in case i had to run !!! no life at all no way to live..........

I am having lower intestinal pain after I eat OR Drink anything. I try to move my bowels and very little comes out. Only tiny tiny pieces come out. I have this about 2-1/2 weeks and I tried not eating for 2-1/2 days and I am still getting the pain. The pain is under my stomach. I do have to urinate a lot too. I was taking cholesterol medication (Welchol) and Cosamine DS for back pain. I stopped taking it last week but I still have the pain.

I take (2) 500mg of metformin at breakfast and supper. I also take powder welchol at supper. I would like to take my 1000mg of Januvia at bedtime to help lower my morning blood sugar readings that usually run in the 150's to 160, Any cons to taking the Januvia without food at bedtime?

Lipitor caused severe muscle weakness, Zetia caused all kind of digestive problems and Pravachol zapped my energy...my count actually went up 30 points while taking WelChol! My doctor is telling me that I have no other choices of medicine to lower my count (total 285, HDL 106 VLDL 21, LDL 188, Triglycerids 106.) My sister is having the same problem so I guess this problem is a family thing. I am really troubled by my doctor's lack of concern.

He prescribed them welchol or questran for this to help with it. He told me I could possibly have an infection in my gallbladder and thats why my white blood count is up, He would not know until it comes out and they send it to pathology and we wait a few weeks to see if the WBC goes down.

I too have had my gallbladder out and have had a whole myriad of problems including the diarrhea. You both need to ask your doctors for Questran. It binds with the bile that is being dumped into the intestines by the liver and carries it out of the body. I have been one of the unlucky ones to still have problems afterwards but the Questran stopped the diarrhea almost instantly.

I am curious if you tried cholestramine or welchol pills for detox? I use the welchol because I can't drink liquid meds.

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