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thantik@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• datelmd5sum@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  methamphetamine is aweome for making the bowel move, but some people do go wonky from the side effects.

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  • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Opposite problem. She’s got microscopic colitis and can’t stop moving bowels.

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    • indomara@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Going to chime in where I wasn’t asked here just to give you a new avenue - look up pharmacogenetic testing. It’s expensive, but one blood test and they can tell you which medications you rapidly metabolize or don’t metabolize at all - I found out a common OTC acid reflux med can make me really ill. I also rapidly metabolize certain anti depressants, which explained why I was completely out of it on 1/4 tablet. It also let me know which ones are safe. Your wife might be a rapid metabolizer of some of these meds and not even know it!

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      • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I appreciate it more than you could understand; we’ll look into it. Doctors have all told her “it is what it is, nothing we can do about it”. So finding someone else who knows a little bit about this is a huge relief.

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry to play armchair doctor, but has she tried budesonide? I ask because a friend of mine has/had very similar symptoms. He was diagnosed with microscopic colitis but it was actually mast cell related. Doctors are still trying to figure out what mast cell disorder it is, but the leading theory is the other medication was causing his mast cells to degranulate, whereas budesonide inhibits degranulation.

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      • thantik@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s one of the ones we eliminated that we thought may have been producing the reaction. We’re unwilling to even begin trying to mess with that again, as she would be a VERY big handful during these events.

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