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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFox" data-source="post: 2465689" data-attributes="member: 110923"><p>The context and problems with innactive ingredients is entirely personal. My problem was probably caused by months of ingestion of Macrogol 6000 used in the brand of tablets I was prescribed. That is a known and powerful laxative - no suprise there then - but my GP completely overlooked the possibility of it being an innactive ingredient being the problem. It's taken me years for the penny to drop and to track it down myself. I have more incentive to be frank. GP's mostly do overlook things like that, they just go to the next on a list and hope it works out but never find out why. TBH its a crack in the pavement of end-to-end healthcare between GP and Pharmacist. I would approach your pharmascist first and explain the situation and suggest it may not be your medication per se which is the problem merely the formulation (brand) presented to you and parehaps use thier experience to get the right brand of med for you without the problem ingrendients - whatever they may be. To get some idea of what that might be...</p><p></p><p>In the past, my journey was by luck inspired guesswork, persistence and eventually threatening legal action and lastly finally - an indulgent GP.</p><p></p><p>My recent analysis of ingredients went like this. Identify the brand and drug, Get the list of ingredients from the internet, put them in a list - google sheets - then look them all up on google, focussing on the side effects. RAG them (Red Amber Green) as potential problem for your case. </p><p></p><p>To take it further RAG another brand, and repeat, until you find one without the things YOU think are a problem.</p><p></p><p>Then take that to your Pharmacist/GP and present your evidence and analysis. See what they think. </p><p></p><p>Last thing: Dont give up even if they do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SlyFox, post: 2465689, member: 110923"] The context and problems with innactive ingredients is entirely personal. My problem was probably caused by months of ingestion of Macrogol 6000 used in the brand of tablets I was prescribed. That is a known and powerful laxative - no suprise there then - but my GP completely overlooked the possibility of it being an innactive ingredient being the problem. It's taken me years for the penny to drop and to track it down myself. I have more incentive to be frank. GP's mostly do overlook things like that, they just go to the next on a list and hope it works out but never find out why. TBH its a crack in the pavement of end-to-end healthcare between GP and Pharmacist. I would approach your pharmascist first and explain the situation and suggest it may not be your medication per se which is the problem merely the formulation (brand) presented to you and parehaps use thier experience to get the right brand of med for you without the problem ingrendients - whatever they may be. To get some idea of what that might be... In the past, my journey was by luck inspired guesswork, persistence and eventually threatening legal action and lastly finally - an indulgent GP. My recent analysis of ingredients went like this. Identify the brand and drug, Get the list of ingredients from the internet, put them in a list - google sheets - then look them all up on google, focussing on the side effects. RAG them (Red Amber Green) as potential problem for your case. To take it further RAG another brand, and repeat, until you find one without the things YOU think are a problem. Then take that to your Pharmacist/GP and present your evidence and analysis. See what they think. Last thing: Dont give up even if they do. [/QUOTE]
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