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Those medicines include Questran, Colestid, Welchol and Zetia. The doctor put you on alendronate (Fosamax) for osteoporosis. If you stopped alendronate, it, too, belongs to a large family of drugs, and you might benefit from one of those medicines.

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My mother is 83 years old and has COPD, High blood pressure, High cholesterol, and prednisone induced diabetes 2. She also had a mild heart attack almost 1 yr ago. She weighs 94lbs. My sisters wanted to stop giving her most of her pills and wanted to try a holistic approach (vitamins, etc.). They asked her Pulmonary Doctor if they could and he said yes. He told them to continue the metropol and her COPD medicines. I insisted that we consult with her heart Doctor who said to continue he

A year ago in April, I had my gallbladder removed because it was functioning at a mere 19%. This took care of the attacks I was having, but ever since I have been having extreme bouts of diarrhea, abdominal pain, and bloody stools every time I eat ANYTHING (and I mean ANYTHING!!) and sometimes when I eat nothing at all. I am currently taking Levsin (hycosamine) which helps on occasion but I can't handle the spaced out side effect it has on me. A pharmacist suggested I take Welchol to help wit

i have been taking 3 or 4 tablets of welchol a day to try and lower my blood sugar level and cholestrol too....in about the past 4 days i have developed severe dry mouth where my tongue get like a piece of cardboard and hard to swalow at times....really pasty tongue....cannt sleep since when lay down dry mouth i can hardly swallow....has anybody ever heard of WELCHOL causing severe dry mouth and sticky pasty tongue and insomnia for it......it is getting really bad for me....help me if you have

I have used www.canadiandrugs.com I like that website. Does anyone know of more websites like that? Is there a way I can find out if target,walmart, or any other pharmacy's priceings.

welchol is there a pill then a powder

about this...nobody can figure out why sweating...they just try and treat the sweatng not the cause of the sweating...even been back and forth to cleveland clinic about it....nothing helps at all...welll about 6 nmonths ago i realized it was getting less and less amounts of sweating....was getting down to point where it was not really a problem any more...just a lil nusciance that i can deal with...then i started getting dizzy at time and a lil light headed....went to endocrinoligist and said

I was diagnosed with pancreas cancer 10 years ago. I had a whipple procedure to remove the entire pancreas, gall bladder and part of the duodenum, which let me Type 1 Diabetic and i take enzymes for digestion. I also have been diagnosed with MEN-1 syndrome. Recently I have been diagnosed with moderately severe GERD and bile reflux with cell changes to the esophagus. I already take Prilosec which the doctors doubled the dosage to 40mg a day and put me on Welchol for bile reflux. Both medication

We talked about my A1C test and how it came out at 6.3 . My doctor the cardiologist told me that that means I am a diabetic and need to change my diet, exercise more and take welchol because it will lower my A1C . Later that day I spoke to my Gastroenterologist who told me that means that I am a pre diabetic, not a diabetic. He told me just watch my diet and exercise more. I actually have gastroparesis , eye pains frequently, feet pain which I believe to be nerve pain, and fatigue. How do I

Sometimes I have a headache and if I eat I know that I will have diarrhea. Then sometimes I dont know I am going to have diarrhea and it just comes out . it is a foul odor. My right upper quadrant has pain in it a lot. I have had my gallbladder removed for almost 11 years. I am afraid to eat at times because I dont know when I will have diarrhea. sometimes after I eat I get a headache and then have darrhea. I t

I was driving to a concert in Vancouver, and the car behind me was swerving all over the road eventually he got pulled over i breathed a sigh of relief and continued driving toward the concert only to be pulled over by another police car, it was joined by 4 other cars and 10 police men stepped out opened my car door and told me to slowly take the keys out of the ignition and raise my hands slowly i got out and immedatly he cuffed me. My date in the next seat was freaking out he put me in the

Chronic pancreatitis diagnosed fifteen months ago, Dx changed a few weeks later to acute pancreatitis. Subsequently zero alcohol (previously drank two drinks each evening), stools more frequent and often liquid or very soft. The main problem is a vast amount of flatus. Is this the result of pancreatitis or should I be looking for something else? I take Ultrase 2 tid with meals, plus Welchol, Zetia, and Niaspan for lipid control. Pain was never severe, have had none for many months. Why so much

here is my question. I am 29 male in reasonable health. 5'9 about 175. In reasonable shape. I work hard for a living in a factory. About 10 days ago I was walking through my house and all of a sudden i got a pain in my upper abdomen. Not a sharp pain, but a dull discomfort. I felt as I needed to rush to the restroom. I was constipated completely. Makes sense with the pain right? But the pain just hit out of no where. Well I stayed very constipated for about 3 days, and the pain stayed too. I t

My health is excellent, but...my cholesterol is high. It has been high all of my life. The HDL is 60, but the LDL is 191. Triclycerides are 166. My diet is good and I am NOT overweight. I do not eat fatty foods or foods high is cholesterol. I walk almost daily, except when the weather doesn't allow. I do not smoke, and I do not have high blood pressure. Doctors have been trying to prescribe me a statin for over 30 years. I have refused. The side effects and long-term liver damage pro

Ive been having abdominal pains for quite a few years now, it ususally starts above my belly botton and shoots to my lower back painfull enough that I have a hard time getting around, ive seen doctors had scans mri's ultrasounds, endoscopys colonoscopys and nothings coming up they tell me im healthy, i just have irritable bowl syndrome, well im taking welchol and taramadol naproxiem i was taking bentyl for awhile but it didnt change anything so i stopped taking it, i take zolpodem and rozerum

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I take Welchol(625 mg), 3 tabs at breakfast & 3 tabs during dinner.

I have red and itchy spots under my armpits.

My mother-in-law had a stroke of the eye, and lost partial vision in her left eye. Now she has lost complete vision in that eye. She is on Lipitor, Naproxin, Zoloff, Lyrica, Net Formin, Claritin D, Welchol, Byetta, Advair. Thanks for any info.

I have diarrhea prominent Irritable Bowel Syndrome and asked my gastroenterologist for something new to try. He gave me samples of WelChol, which I later found was a drug for high cholesterol. Does this medicine also work for IBS?

Numerous MRI's. Medications -- have tried 10-12. Taking Quinine 5gr 2X/day, Clonazepam .5mg 2X/day, Diazepam 2mg 2tablets/2X/day. Only working fair at best. Can't sleep. Tried Requip & several other medicines with no success. Biopsy sent to Mayo Clinic 2 years ago -- identified neve problem but couldn't pinpoint. Have sleep apnea, use CPAP,. Other medicines currently taking are Potassium 20MEQ CR 1 tablet daily; Welchol 625 mg, 2 tablets/ 3 times per day; Etodolac 500 mg/2 tablets daily; Provi

I have 625 mg tablets but have lost the instructions. I think I'm to take 2 tablets before meals but am not sure how long before meals.

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