9 replies to this topic

[Marko]

I am c4 quad 27years post injury with an extremely lazy gut . Have recently started on cpap for sleep aponea, as a result I am suffering from extreme blot 24/7. I have little relief post enema. My bowel regime consists of 6 movicol coloxyl and senna twice a day motilium four times a day 250mls of peppermint water and mintec three times a day.

I have tried anal irrigation for the past six months with poor results currently take 4 bisalax each am.

Any suggestions for additional treatments

[Snakeye]

Try Gasx but check with your doctor whether it would mess with the effectiveness of your other meds. Anactids do but as far as I can tell simethicone does not....

[lissalyon]

try to be sure that your food is hydrogenated fat free-really that stuff is poison.

[tyvin]

More of the same............

http://www.apparelyz...get-rid-of-gas/

[mandy.s]

My husband is a c4/5 quad and 22 years post. He has the most incredible, painful bloating. Constantly taking gasx and maalox. It gets much worse as the day goes on. By 4pm in the afternoon he looks 4 months pregnant. He gets some relief from BM of course. He seems to get some type of infection or disorder every couple weeks that increases the bloating and pain, he can't eat, tries hard to drink but isn't as successful on these days. He takes daily Septra antibiotic for UTI prevention and has started probiotics and Activia yogurt to balance the septra. But as of yet, nothing seems to really help. He's had every test that the GI dept can perform (colonoscopy, bacteria test, lactose intolerance test, small bowel obstruction test, along with x-rays, ultrasounds...) Finally, a dr told him "Vernon, you have a progressive disease that will most likely end up killing you." He went on to explain that quads with limited or no activity during the day, along with slow/lazy bowels and basically no muscle tone in the abdominal area--it's just par for the course of being a quad. But your situation is probably different than his. Due to your cpap.

We're at our wits end. The problems seem to be multiplying with every 6 months to year.

[Tetracyclone]

Snakeye, on 20 July 2010 - 11:57 AM, said:

Try Gasx but check with your doctor whether it would mess with the effectiveness of your other meds. Anactids do but as far as I can tell simethicone does not....

Simethicone should not be taken within 2 hours of taking gabapentin.

[Snakeye]

Tetracyclone, on 06 September 2010 - 08:03 PM, said:

Snakeye, on 20 July 2010 - 11:57 AM, said:

Try Gasx but check with your doctor whether it would mess with the effectiveness of your other meds. Anactids do but as far as I can tell simethicone does not....

Simethicone should not be taken within 2 hours of taking gabapentin.

According to my VA doc Simethicone on it's own (such as Gasx) has no known drug interactions while certain preperations that combine simethicone with antacids, like Maalox, do indeed produce unwanted drug interactions...Simethicone is not an antacid and antacids is the culprit...I take Gasx all the time in combination with other drugs and have had no problems...Look up simethicone without antacids on webmd and Mayo, etc...

[Tetracyclone]

Snakeye, on 06 September 2010 - 08:48 PM, said:

Tetracyclone, on 06 September 2010 - 08:03 PM, said:

Snakeye, on 20 July 2010 - 11:57 AM, said:

Try Gasx but check with your doctor whether it would mess with the effectiveness of your other meds. Anactids do but as far as I can tell simethicone does not....

Simethicone should not be taken within 2 hours of taking gabapentin.

According to my VA doc Simethicone on it's own (such as Gasx) has no known drug interactions while certain preperations that combine simethicone with antacids, like Maalox, do indeed produce unwanted drug interactions...Simethicone is not an antacid and antacids is the culprit...I take Gasx all the time in combination with other drugs and have had no problems...Look up simethicone without antacids on webmd and Mayo, etc...

Oops, you are right and I misremembered. must be the meds, right?

[shady]

"Vernon, you have a progressive disease that will most likely end up killing you." He went on to explain that quads with limited or no activity during the day, along with slow/lazy bowels and basically no muscle tone in the abdominal area--it's just par for the course of being a quad."

Will look forward to that then

Edited by shady, 07 September 2010 - 04:31 PM.