Welchol and other medications

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219609 tn?1210348114 While you wait for the dotor ot answer: Like all the rest, foods/drinks (and coffee), vitamins, and other drugs, take Welchol hours away from your thyroid medication. Welchol can make it harder for your body to absorb certain other medications, including levothyroxine/Synthroid. So as long as you take them both far apart from each other, you should be fine. Low Vitamin D, did you tell the doctor? Will you be taking supplements to build up your low V-D, I presume.
Avatar m tn I just got off of zetia and welchol. I could not take statins. I tried them all. Used to take Niaspan and fenofibrate but they took me off cause both cause problems in some and had not 'reduced the incidence of cardiac events'. I think they have concluded that neither do Zetia, except when used with a statin, so it is the statin doing the work. I also think Welchol has been shown to not reduce cardiac events too. not sure. I am on Repatha. Third bi weekly shot.
Avatar n tn Londres is certainly correct that there are a few other options available to treat what could be assumed to be familial hypercholesterolaemia, even though your doctor has obviously tried those that would be most obvious. Generally, if you experience muscle weakness as a side effect of Lipitor (atorvastatin), other statins will produce similar effects, so that eliminates the use of Zocor (simvastatin), Crestor (rosuvastatin) etc.
Avatar m tn the first two times, there were a few blockages - 10, 18 and 20% The last time was in December 2013 with a different cardiologist (I moved across the state) and he said I had NO blockages at all. HUH??? My lipid profiles are still horrible even with medications. Pravacol, Tricor and Welchol. His answer for this question was: "Those medications took the blockages away." Of course, I am no doctor but this seems funny to me.
1139187 tn?1355706647 Once a medication is dispensed from a pharmacy it cannot be sold back to the pharmacy or any other person. This is because even if you've only had it for a day and the bottles are still sealed, it is impossible to know if it has been stored properly and has not been tampered. I know this seems wasteful, and it is, but it's the law. I work in a HIV clinic and patients come in with unopened bottles of meds to donate to ppl who can't pay, other countries etc.
Avatar f tn Do you take a low dose aspirin daily? Check out this list of medications and talk to your doctor about the best treatment plan for you.
Avatar f tn It turned out to be the welchol I had started on to decrease my cholesterol. I felt bloated, constipated, a little dizzy and a fast heart rate every late afternoon and evening. I was very fatigued and just felt lousy all over. I have to admit that the pressure feeling in the esophagus was the scarriest.
Avatar n tn I had my gall bladder removed in July 07; I new that after the surgery it would take some time to get back to normal (being able to eat and not have diarrhea). However, this is not my case-my diarrhea is if anything worse and more frequent. No certain foods cause it- one day I can eat something and have diarrhea, the next day eat the same thing and nothing. Sometimes it occurs immediately after I eat (before I've even finished my meal) and then other times it occurs the following morning.
Avatar f tn I stick to the natural remedies for colds and flu to avoid the high alcohol content and sedative properties of cold and flu remedies in the drug store, and some decongestants have stimulants in them that can cause anxiety.
401016 tn?1201451802 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.
Avatar f tn I have an answer for you. I too had my GB out, and soon after had the same symptoms. I DIAGNOSED IT myself....not much initial help from the gastro MD. It is called "biliary diarrhea". It's fairly common, surprisingly. Apparantly has no reflection on the quality of the surgery (I had the short cut method). However, good news: I've beern able to control it, for which I do give gastro MD credit....The cholesterol drug Welchol. Without it I'd be housebound!
21064 tn?1309308733 With so many people being put on cholesterol lowering meds, BP controlling meds, and a myriad of other heart-related medications, they're trying to get an idea of the various medications people are taking. For those of you who still might like to offer ideas, you just need to list the names. For example: Vytorin Tambacor As for the side effects, you don't have to list your own sides.
Avatar n tn I too have had very loose and bright yellow stools since getting my gallbladder removed 2 1/2 years ago now....it is a very common side-effect of having no gallbladder, for now that your body has nowhere to store your bile, it just runs straight into the intestines..... I know that the right kind of fibre like metamucil can help, and also medications like the others have suggested.
Avatar f tn Do not be fobbed off with pain relief medications and the Welchol. You require urgent medical investigation to find out the cause of your symptoms so that you can receive the appropriate treatment. Best of luck. Let me know how you get on.
Avatar f tn s worthwhile to discuss the option of other medicines with your doc -- my husband is a stage 4 cirrhotic and all his docs agree that with his cholesterol levels , even when he had active hep c, it was in his best interest to say on his low dose of statin (he used to take 20mg simvastatin/day, reduced to 10mg/day during treatment when his cholesterol went to 75).
Avatar f tn I will also ask about cholestyramine and welchol. My Lymie friend who I saw yesterday also recommended the cholesytramine.
1374371 tn?1279332622 It's not vanity I'm worried about. I've had two c-sections. I've never been put to sleep before and I'm more worried about that. I've also read horror stories about surgeons accidentally nicking other organs and causing even more damage. I have a couple friends who have had the surgery and regret it because one can't keep any food down, and the other the food goes right through. I don't have any symptoms like that. I've never vomited from it.
Avatar n tn My synthroid was increased from 100mcg to 112 mcg. My tsh is 5.5 . My question is how will my other medications be working until my tsh is in the normal range . Will the level of my meds be increased in my system until my levels are back to normal.
Avatar n tn 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?
1654177 tn?1319838494 I have heard before that some drugs interfere with the actions of other drugs. There is also another question you may ask your docs and yourself. If I can take my other meds, when is the best time to do so?
1202033 tn?1273771354 I think you are doing a great job and perhaps you could try no benadryl on weekends and may surprise yourself and sleep OK.
Avatar n tn I did not have any problems until then. I suffered with IBS for years until my Gastro doctor put me on Welchol and it is wonderful I take 3 pills a day and I can get anything I want and I don't have any IBS episodes anymore. I am not afraid to go out anywhere anymore. But I have another problem.
1510649 tn?1301575339 Well, I just got all my test results back. Negative for HIV, hepatitis, herpes and syphilis. B12 numbers are better than what they were when I last had them checked in November (they were 210 then). However, my liver enzymes just keep on going up. They were 109 (ALT) and 58 (AST) and now they are 165 (ALT) and 109 (AST). I'm seeing a gastroenterologist tomorrow, but was wondering if there is some medication I'm taking that could be causing all of these numbers to continue to go up?
Avatar f tn Well if anyone can help me feel better or if they have had this experience also please post keep in mind I have never took any of these medications before other then the suboxone. My medications are suboxone 2mg four times a day,clonidine 0.1mg everynight at bedtime, zoloft 50mg every morning, tenex 1mg 3 times a day, and valium 10mg as needed for anxiety. Now to me this seems like a lot of medications to take considering I have never took any of them before.
255722 tn?1452546541 In another study, she compared Doxy to a handful of other popular meds for Lyme and what percentage of spirochetes and cysts were killed and published the results. There are also some cool pictures of spirochetes, colonies, and "ring forms" where 1 or 2 spirochetes curl up in a ring. It is interesting and creepy at the same time. As one scientist has said, this thing is a couple rungs up the evolutionary ladder than other infectious bacteria.