Posted by Ritch on March 23, 2002, at 14:26:23
In reply to IBS and Elavil » fachad, posted by IsoM on March 23, 2002, at 13:22:44
> It's interesting that your wife has found that Elavil (amitriptyline) helps her IBS. My oldest son has IBS too. Now that he's in his latter 20s, the frequency of attacks have gone way done, but so has his stress level.
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> When he was in his late teens, early 20s, he took a new med at the time, called Dicetel. He had been on clomipramine for his depression. It worked better than any other TCA for him. Dicetel is a selective calcium-channel blocker & it nicely blocked the wayward nerve impulses just enough that his digestive system resumed its normalacy. It's a prophylatic med but now that his cases are so infrequent, he no longer takes it. I don't know if it's available in the States. For him, it was a life saver. I'm sure you know how *severe* it can get & how unbearable the pain & nausea.
IsoM,That is interesting. I found that higher doses of Neurontin (if I could tolerate them) improved my IBS symptoms. It is supposed to be a selective calcium channel blocker as well.
Mitch
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