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Questran

Questran



USES: This medication is used to lower cholesterol levels in the blood for the purpose of decreasing the risk of heart disease.


 
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Avg Consumer Rating 4.8 out of 5
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Questran

Uses
This medication is used to lower cholesterol levels in the blood for the purpose of decreasing the risk of heart disease.
Notes
  • Your doctor may periodically perform lab tests during treatment to evaluate the effectiveness of the medication.
  • Know what your cholesterol level is and understand what it means.
  • Your doctor, pharmacist or nutritionist can provide you with valuable information.
  • Do not allow anyone else to take this medication.

Storage
  • Store at room temperature between 59 and 86 degrees F (between 15 and 30 degrees C) away from moisture and sunlight.
  • Do not store in the bathroom.


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商品名:Questran 4g/PK
商品名:Questran 4g/PK



How To Use
  • Take this medication before meals as prescribed.
  • Do not take medication dry.
  • The medication must be mixed with liquid, soups, cereals or pulpy fruits such as applesauce or crushed pineapple.
  • Stir completely to mix and drink immediately.
  • Rinse the glass with additional liquid and drink to ensure all the medication is taken.
  • This medication can interfere with other medications if taken at the same time.
  • Take other medications one hour before or 4 to 6 hours after taking this drug.
  • Ask your doctor or pharmacist to help establish a dosing schedule if you are taking more than one medication.
  • For best results, this medication must be used along with an exercise program and a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet.
  • It may take a few weeks to months before the full effects of this medication are noticed.

Side Effects
  • Stomach upset, heartburn, constipation, belching, gas, nausea, loss of appetite, aggravated hemorrhoids, change of taste, headache, or itching may occur.
  • If these effects persist or become bothersome, inform your doctor.
  • Notify your doctor if you experience unusual bleeding or bruising, severe stomach ache or vomiting while taking this medication.
  • If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.

Precautions
  • Tell your doctor your medical history, especially if you are constipated or have hemorrhoids, low thyroid (hypothyroidism), diabetes, phenylketonuria (PKU); stomach, intestinal, gall bladder, kidney or liver disease; unusual bleeding or bruising and of any allergies.
  • This drug should be used only when clearly needed during pregnancy.
  • Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
  • It is not known if this drug is excreted into breast milk.
  • Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.

Missed Dose
  • If you miss a dose, take it as soon as remembered; do not take if it is almost time for the next dose, instead, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule.
  • Do not double the dose to catch up.

Drug Interactions
  • Tell your doctor of all prescription and nonprescription drugs you may use, especially of digitoxin, digoxin, diuretics ("water pills"), penicillin G, phenobarbital, phenylbutazone, propranolol, tetracycline, thyroid, warfarin or other "blood thinners", vitamin A, D, E, antidepressants, hydrocortisone, estrogens and progestins (e.g., birth control pills) or troglitazone.
  • Do not start or stop any medicine without doctor or pharmacist approval.

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User Medicine Opinions for Questran
Overall: 4 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 3 out of 5
Healing Power: 4 out of 5
No dependency problems: 4 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 4 out of 5
Sex: M
Age: 33
Time Taken: 1 years

Reason: Crohns Disease Date: 6 July 2005
Side Effects
Use this for illeoceal valve removal during surgery over decade ago. Works well for Diarreha. Powerful pain meds work better for D*. This med I use on occasion when severe D*.

Additional Thoughts
This med binds to other meds causing them to not be absorbed. Must be carefully planned out on when to take. Best time for me, about half way through a course of 8 hour sleep. Wake, take this, back to bed. Works well.

Overall: 5 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 4 out of 5
Healing Power: 4 out of 5
No dependency problems: 4 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 4 out of 5
Sex: F
Age: 39
Time Taken: 12 years

Reason: crohns disease Date: 7 November 2006
Side Effects
There are no noticable side effects. it just stops the number of bowel movements per day

Additional Thoughts
I take 1/2 package of powder a day and it releaves my diarrhea. This medication does not reduce inflammation caused by crohns, but it does help keep your life normal. I also take this with Imodium. I stopped taking all of those harmful drugs 12 years ago against my doctors advice. I haven't needed surgery and I feel great. Don't believe everything your Doctor says. Those drugs they perscribe for you are harmful. If you have tried everything else then you don't have a choice, but please try other methods. before questran I would have b/w 12-20 movements a day now I have 1 or 2.

Overall: 5 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 4 out of 5
Healing Power: 5 out of 5
No dependency problems: 5 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 5 out of 5
Sex: F
Age: 25
Time Taken: 1 years

Reason: Crohn's Date: 6 February 2007
Side Effects
You need to experiment with the dosage at first as too much and you might not be going to the toilet for a while. It binds you up.

Additional Thoughts
It has transformed my life. I had the illeo valve removed in surgery and was having severe diarrhoea. I was prescribed this and it worked almost overnight. My bowel movements were "normal" and have been ever since I've been taking this.

Overall: 5 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 4 out of 5
Healing Power: 5 out of 5
No dependency problems: 4 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 4 out of 5
Sex: M
Age: 63
Time Taken: 3 weeks

Reason: Microscopic colitis (lymphocytic) Date: 6 March 2007
Side Effects
gas at first

Additional Thoughts
I had been on bismuth for 3 weeks with this last bout of colitis when I started this. I've gone from 15 episodes a day to 2. I take 4 scoops a day. Three are taken immediately before the first bite of a meal, one at night. This appears to bind with bile and causes it to be excreted instead of recycled by the liver as happens 95% of the time normally. If your bile has become toxic from whatever brought on your colitis (like gluten), this drug causes the liver to make new clean bile. Your colon can then heal. For colitis, there's more to this drug than just having the counterbalance of causing constipation. Taking it just before meals in important so that it gets to the bile.

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