Hi Chad

Sorry you are having a hard time.
It seems your immediate problem is that taking all that lomotil might
have made you constipated. Going overboard now with stool softeners
seems to me a case of trying to make a right out of 2 wrongs. I would
guess that to be the wrong approach.
Is there a poison control centre in your area you can call and talk to?
Of course, if as useful as here you might as well skip it, but one never
knows. Next, did you call your doctor, or are you going to and ask a
doctor what you should do. Be honest; most doctors have dealt with
people who are addicted to one thing or another and will give you loads
of credit for honesty and trying to change that. As to the present pain
etc. I would eat only liquids if possible so as not to get blocked; at
least eat healthy and get a head start on feeding your body for coping
with withdrawal. Have you tried heat and massaging the painful area's. I
think that is all you can do and hope it will wear off.
Oh, what you did was not pathetic at all; you are just trying to cope
the best you can even tough it is in a wrong way. Hopefully you get good
help for that, but first things first. It is much harder to unlearn
addictive behaviour when in pain and feeling lousy in other area's.
Hopefully others have more idea's.
Good luck;
note; eliminated some cross posting.

Just speaking generally, not bringing lomotil into the picture..(mainly
because I don't know what it is) My advice on what kindof food to eat during
is: hatevr you crave. I know wen I'm WD-ing, I love stufflike canteloupe,
watermelon, ice cream.....While you're in WD is not the time to try and
start on a healthy, balanced diet. Any food you can keep down is good food.
Usually cold juicy fruits are good...but whatever your particular tastes
are...indulge them now! If you've got someboy able to do some shoping for
you, get plenty of fruit cocktail, the already mentioned watermelon and
canteloupe. Malteds to drink, root beerwith ice cream in it...When you're
kicking,it's one of the few times in life when you're allowed to say"Don't
f.cking argue with me! I'm f.cking sick as a dog,!"You can pretty much do
anything and blame it on the WD. Once you feel beter, like a normal person,
you can start on a healthy diet, balanced meals an all that crap.
Mike

I would recommend you see a doctor. You could have done some serious
damage to your liver, kidneys or both. It is difficult to know since
the symptoms of overdosing are similar to the symptoms from having
cause organ damage. Still having nausea on the second day is kind of
alarming. You could tell the doctor that you took too much APAP and
Ibuprofen since the tests will be similar in nature. At day 4 there
might not be much that can be done if there is damage but it is better
than waiting. In some cases severe damage might not be apparent for as
much as 6-8 days following the event.
For a bowel movement try Miralax.

Good luck

Hi Chad, that is really a literal shitload of pills you took, but indeed
like dr. White already points out what you took the lomotil is an anti
diarhea med and the opiate in it is related to meperidine also known as
pethidine, but related to it does not mean the same action compared to
pethidine and the only reason why you could get high from this stuff was
that you took that much that it could penetrate the bloodbrain barrier,
except if lomotil is a central working agent to take care of diarhea that i
dont know, but pethidine is weak and about the related compound
dephenoxilate in lomotil i have no idea about its potency, but mainly such
anti diarhea meds with an opiate related compound in it are weaker.
Well before you can take a dump again i would suggest to wait a day or two
drinking a lot of water and on the evening of day two you could take two or
three 5 mg bisacodyl dragees, dulcolax, but not a load, because else you get
cramps you wont believe this can already happen with 3 pills so go easy on
the dulcolax and the days in between to give your body a bit time to get by
from that load. In lomotil there is a sub therapeutic amount of atropine
present to to discourage deliberate overdosage, but atropine is an anti
cholinergic and therefore you have this very dry mouth nose and whatever
more so however atropine has no effect on your intestines as far as i know,
a load can cause tachycardia so a racing heart and i guess you felt that.
Luckily atropine has a short halflife of only 2 hours, but you really took a
lot so the days to let your body calm down i see as needed then when you
need to take a dump, but when it wont happen, doubtful i mean when the WD
starts again you sh.t again, but in case not after two days the dulcolax can
come in, but like i said really no more then three pills and maybe you can
try two first to prevent heavy painful cramps.
Good luck and take care.
Regards, Freek.

Hi Chad,

Sorry to hear about your pain and your pain management problems.  I
also had developed a dependence on narcotics due to my Crohns related
issues.  My husband found a wonder pill for me called suboxzone.  It
is an at home detox pill and works within forty minutes of taking your
first dose.  It really is a miracle, it obliterated all of the
horrible withdrawal symptoms.  Not all doctors can perscribe this
medicine, go to their website and click on find a doctor, I did and I
feel like I have a life again that  I can somewhat control.  Also,
this doctor prescribed a non-narcotic pain medicine (Torradol) to help
with the Crohns pain.  I hope this helps you too.

I'd say drink soups, broths, and anything squishy/mushy. Anything that
can get through the bowel easily. That's what the Doc's told me when I
had a problem passing larger/formed stools through my narrowed ileum.
It did seem to help (along with the steroids lol!) Also, make sure you
are drinking plenty (water is your best best) so that you're not
dehydrated, so that there's more liquid to your stools. I might be
wrong, but just some suggestions.

Hopefully you'll give birth soon, and hopefully the lomotil hasn't
caused any nasty problems.

Are you passing gas? Sometimes that's a good sign that you don't have
a blockage.

Musashi