Irritable Bowel Syndrome : Colpermin

Skint_Catt

What changed 16 years ago was a serious case of food poisoning in New York which nearly hospitalised him!

absolutebounder

Skint_Catt wrote: »

What changed 16 years ago was a serious case of food poisoning in New York which nearly hospitalised him!

Interesting. Has any of the docs thought that it could be a fear (stress) in the back of his mind that any time he eats he could be about to suffer the same food poisoning. For instance is it worse predominantly after or before meals?

Skint_Catt

No, there seems to be no trigger except certain foods. Most fruit makes the gas worse, curries/spicy food (obviously!) make the diahorrea worse. We accidently found he's allergic to whiskey and he does seem to be better recently now he's off it (used to drink at least one a day). The pain through his back of his bowel cramping was horrible to watch until a few weeks ago and he regularly had time off i.e. several days a month (in the 7 months we've lived together he's only had one day off - good home cooking instead of the processed foods he used to eat!).

There's no stress in his life currently, though when he drives a lot or sits at his PC he notices the position he sits in can give him stomach ache. Not close to meals eiher - usually late evening is worse (when he's been sitting all day) but then again thats only when I see him so

He's now on Fibrogel from the Dr (an orange powdered drink) which may also have helped recently.

SmileyHappyBeing

Seven-day-weekend,

Prices for colpermin,


£5.34 for 20 caps in Boots.

£4.85 in Asda for 20 caps, or £19.32 for 100.

Hth ..

seven-day-weekend

Oh, thanks Smiley - not as bad as I thought!

moneysaving_pharmacist

Or ask the GP to prescribe the colpermin. If he's getting fybogel on prescription as well you might want to think about a pre-payment cert depending on the quantities prescribed.

seven-day-weekend

Thank you Pharmacist - however we can't use the British NHS as we are Spanish residents and have to use Spanish healthcare. The last lot of Colpermin was prescribed by a UK Doctor before we came to Spain (he prescribed 100s as he knew we were coming here!) but now my husband needs more.

Neither our medico (Doctor) or farmacia have heard of it. I have shown them the box and they have just shrugged and shook their heads! I don't know whether IBS is not common in Spain.

Anyway, as long as we can buy it in the UK, that's fine.

Thanks again!

Savvy_Sue

Can your son buy some and post it out if you're desperate before June?

seven-day-weekend

Yes Savvy Sue, that is a possibility, and so could various friends, but my husband has enough to last until June (unless he has a REALLY bad bout - hope not),

Thanks everyone for your help.

Mrs_P_Pincher

Can I just point out that it is very common for people to end up with IBS after a serious infection. For example I had campylobacter food poisoning in the summer of 1979 and the symptoms have never completely gone away. I was diagnosed with IBS later that year, by which time I weighed under 7 stone and was in all sorts of trouble, living on Complan. With careful diet and lifestyle choices I manage it now, but I believe that had it not been for the food poisoning in the first place I would not have this horrible illness that when it flares up makes life extremely difficult.

It seems quite credible to me that this gentleman is simply stuck with this after his food poisoning.

We all have different ways of managing symptoms. Colpermin doesn't work for me, but ginger does and a good curry with plenty of ginger and turmeric blocks me solid fr about three days!

That's enough of this.