What Medicines Help An Irritable Bowel

“Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
- Frank Sinatra

Medicines In Moderation

Let me say this a few things before we begin. Medicines must always be taken under the supervision of your doctor. It is extremely dangerous to use drugs without proper supervision.

And the second thing is that Medicines do not cure IBS.But they can provide quick relief in some cases. And sometimes, we all just need to get away from the condition and focus on our lives.

And so I recommend medicines for your symptoms for temporary relief, only under doctor supervision. Use the medicines to stay sane while we use the healthy supplement & diet regime to treat the source of your problems.

You won’t need these medicines in a few weeks’ time. In the meantime, all the medicines are perfectly safe to take and will not harm your body. However, they can dramatically boost the quality of your life.

Most importantly, you can not take these medicines by yourself. You must talk to your doctor to make sure these medicines are safe for you - you may very likely have special situations that I cannot foresee while writing this book. My job is giving you all the information you need, leave it to your doctor to make decisions about your medicine plan.

Medicines For Diarrhea

Which Anti-Diarrhea Medicines Should You Take?

If you suffer from diarrhea, then just pop two pills (5 mg) of the following medicines. They are usually available at most pharmacies over the counter:

• Loperamide (Sold in most countries as Imodium)
• Diphenoxylate (Sold in most countries as Lomotil)

Even if you are having a diarrhea attack, you should not take more than 2 pills in 4 hours. Typically, these pills take about 30-90 minutes to take effect and slow down your digestive system drastically.

If diarrhea is part of your every day life, then you can take one pill every two days. I do NOT recommend doing this, but it is useful to know in emergencies. If you start the course on digestive enzymes as outlined in the section above, then you won’t need to use anti-diarrhea medicines for too long. ally.

What Do Diarrhea Medicines Do?

What these medicines essentially do is just relax your brain gut (your stomach has a different “brain” than the rest of your body), slow down your bowel’s motility and stop your diarrhea attack within 1-2 hours. If you know beforehand that you will be eating incompatible food, or encountering stressful situations, just have a pill of Imodium even before the situation gets to you.

Remember that you won’t always need these pills – these are just crutches to help your sick digestive system. Eventually, as you balance your diet, start exercising and really achieve true peace and relaxation, your body will heal itself. Just give yourself 4-6 months with these crutches and I guarantee you will be able to live without them (It took me just 2 months to stop taking these medicines and still have the ability to eat anything I wanted).

Some people find that once they carry these drugs, they don’t even need them! Just the comfort of having a drug that can actually help your urgency is so helpful, that the system automatically starts behaving nicely.

Imodium is safe to use several times a week (you won’t need to use it more than 3 times). And if you follow the rest of this book, then you won’t even need to use them after a few weeks.

So, if you suffer from diarrhea, urgency to go to the bathroom or frequent motions, I highly recommend you keep a strip of these medicines with you at all times.

Medicines For Constipation

IBS Constipation can be treated quite simply by adding extra fiber in the diet from cereals, fruit and vegetables. The extra fiber can also come from bulking agents. These bulking agents ease the passage of waste matter through the digestive system by retaining water, and making the stools softer and easier to expel.

Unfortunately, they produce gas, causing distension and may make the symptoms of abdominal pain, bloating, flatulence and diarrhea much worse. And the sensitive guts of IBS patients do not tolerate “roughage” and gaseous distension very well. So, there is no known quantity of drugs or supplements that immediately helps constipation.

Some patients have also experimented with laxatives. But the way in which these laxatives work - by instigating strong contractions in the stomach, usually does more bad than good. And since most IBS patients have really sensitive colons, these contractions can often lead to debilitating pain.

I recommend that you solve your constipation problem by adding more soluble fiber to your diet (refer to the chapter on soluble fibers in Chapter 4). However, in case of emergencies, you should consult with your doctors about the following dietary bulking agents:

• Regulan
• Metamucil
• Fybogel
• Isogel

Constipation is best treated by adding natural sources of soluble fiber in the diet. While it may be hard to follow in the first one week because we are desperate for a quick-fix medical solution, it leads to a more long lasting change when adopted over a few weeks.

And always remember that our IBS-ridden stomachs are very sensitive. Any fiber should be introduced very slowly to allow the body to get used to fiber.

Medicines For Abdominal Pain

Unlike diarrhea, there are no fast fixes for IBS abdominal pain. The only thing I can promise is that it will get better with time as you follow the Goodbye IBS! program. But several tests have been conducted for IBS Abdominal pain and I’ll list out the most well accepted results from those.

Just remember, you’ll need to take these results with a grain of salt. Unlike diarrhea, abdominal pain is not easily curable by drugs. But improving your overall digestive health with a healthier lifestyle will help. In case of emergencies, you may refer to the results below and ask your doctor to consider prescribing these medicines.

Anti-spasmodic drugs are often prescribed to IBS patients to help with the spasms in the stomach. While these drugs take the edge off the pain, many patients do not find them helpful. So, you definitely need to consult your doctor to check if these drugs could work for your symptoms.

Some of the most commonly prescribed anti-spasmodic drugs are:

• Colofac (Mebeverin)
• Spasmanol (Alvarine Citrate)
• Buscopan (Hyoscine Butylbromide - may have side effects like dry mouth, a little blurring of vision or difficulty in passing urine)

In addition, some patients benefit from medicines containing peppermint oil

• Colpermin
• Mintec

Chronic pain is exhausting; it saps the energy, confidence and esteem from IBS patients. It is the probably the biggest reason for depression among IBS patients. And while drugs may help, they are best kept for emergencies only. It is also a proven fact, that pain is much worse when you are anxious or tense.

So, follow this program. Eat right. Supplement your diet with the right supplements. Exercise well. Learn relaxation and self-hypnosis. And the chronic pain will disappear over time.For IBS Abdominal pain, drugs are not the answer - Living & eating right is the permanent solution.

Medicines For Gas & Bloating

Gassy symptoms are often hard to treat. I’ve read numerous researches and tests done on patients with symptoms of gas, bloating, flatulence, wind, belching & passing gas. And I’ve yet to read one conclusive result that says antacids or charcoal tablets actually helped an IBS patient get better.

Still, give all the conventional medicines a good shot. You should try gassy agents, antacids, activated charcoal and try eating non-citrus solid foods (banana, honeydew are good). These may help your particular case.

But for the long term, treating these symptoms is less about taking medicines or fixes, and more about avoiding certain foods. The most common causes for gas increase are:

• Lactose Intolerance. Cut down on your milk & lactose intake for a few days.
• Acid Reflux. Add some alkaline drinks (green/herbal teas or green/chlorophyll drinks) to your diet.
• Gassy beans & pulses. Avoid them for a while.
• Wheat products. Substitute wheat-based breads & foods with rice.
• Sugar, desserts & high carbohydrate foods. Sugar is readily fermented, leaving behind gases. Stay off it for 2 days.
• Stress & anxiety. Relaxing for a few minutes will slow down the motility of your entire system.

Having wind (especially in closed public places like offices or schools) can be extremely embarrassing. And obviously, this leads to anxiety & stress. Unfortunately, this same anxiety starts a vicious cycle and makes the symptoms even worse.

But it’s not a dead end. Thousands of patients with these same symptoms have learnt to dramatically reduce them, simply by learning to relax their gut. Changing your diet and avoiding trigger foods may take from 2-12 hours to take effect.

You’ll Need More Than Quick-Fix Medicines To Heal Your Troubled Digestive System

Medicines are not the cure, merely temporary fixes. If you use medicines, the symptoms are bound to return at another time.

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