he wants me to get off acacia immediately (I don't really think he knew what it was  ) and start on the fibercon w/ 2tablets in the am and 2 before bed. Plus, he put me on a very low dose a drug called amitriptyline 10mg. Has anyone ever heard of it? I never have. His hopes are to calm the colon down so that I don't have the attacks 1st thing in the mornings which is when my problems occur. He did blood work for thyroid (have lost 12 lbs in the last year--hmmmm maybe because I haven't eaten much with the IBS????) and also tested for sprue.Plus I have to do a hemocult to check for blood in the stools. He didn't want to do a colonoscopy for awhile yet; wants me to do these things for 6 weeks and then he'll evaluate at that time whether a colonoscopy is due. I was bound and determined that I wasn't going to do any antidepressents for this IBS as I do not have a problem that way, but he said this is such a low dose and is used for these kind of stomach problems. Plus, the thing that made me listen to him more than I might have is that he said he has problems with IBS in the mornings and has found lots of help with taking the fibercon. I hate to give up my acacia, but in reality don't know how much it was truly helping. So guess I'll try the fibercon. 4 pills a day doesn't seem like much, but we'll see. Oh yes, he did tell me I could keep taking 1 Imodium every morning as a preventative although he'd like to see me wheen off it (and wouldn't I too!) Thats providing the rash I got last week wasn't caused by the Imodium. If the rash comes back, then of course, no more Imodium. Sooooooooo, that's the scoop. He said I might have a mild case of diverticulosis, but if I do, he'd treat me the same way as he is now. Don't really know how I feel about the visit, other than the fact that they forgot to check me in and after waiting out in the waiting room for 1/2 hr they took me back where I waited for another 45min. before the doc came in...by that time I was a littlel up tight to say the least.
I would be interested to hear if anyone has every heard of or taken this amitriptyline and how it worked.
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Had My GI app't. today and.....
