Greetings Everyone. I have been a lurker here for a while and thought this would be a good time to chime in on the subject of loperamide. A little info about me, in 1994 I was diagnosed with acute Crohns Disease, which some of you might know is a disease that attacks the gastro system. For me particularly the large bowel. I have roughly 1 foot of my large bowel left, so as you can imagine, I am prescribed generic loperamide. Now, I never knew it was an opiate till I discovered this site, and various other sites. I am also prescribed tramadol, which is my drug of choice. I eat tramadol like it was candy cause I have been prescribed it since 1994 for restless leg syndrome. I have such a high tolerance to it anymore, I can take an entire bottle of 90 in less than a week. I've never had a seizure (knocks on wood).
I would go through some serious withdrawl from the trams, and as some might know, the wd's from trams sucks. Then recently, I was reading on how loperamide can help with the wd's from trams and other opiates like vicodin. So I experimented, and I can honesly say, it works. What I do is about an hour before taking loperamide, I take 3 or 4 Tagamet and if I have them, 1 or 2 Omeprazole. Now the past couple of days I have been experimenting. For example, tonight, i took my usual tagamets and 1 om's, and an hour later took 140mg's of loperamide. I am prescribed 360 2mg loperamide pills a month to take as needed.
See, most Crohns patients have constant diahrrea, I never have normal stools, normal stools for me is the runs. So taking that much lope will not stuff me up. Before I took the lope, I looked in the mirror to see how big my pupils are, and noted how I feel. I was tired, and my pupils were normal size. About 2 hours after taking the 140mg's of lope, I felt like I had taken my tramadol, had that slight speedy feeling, felt as if I was in a better mood. I looked in the mirror, and my pupils were tiny. As if I took a ton of percocets. I don't know if I would say I was "high", I just felt better, somewhat energized.
So I would have to agree with the others who feel as if loperamide can save your ass if you run out of your d.o.c.'s. Oh, I also seem to think the loperamide I get from wally world seem to have a better effect on me than my prescribed ones. My prescribed ones are brown capsules with loperamide powder inside. *shrugs*