Irritable Bowel Syndrome
"I&#039;m not sure that this was a direct result of taking Linaclotide, but My experience was constipation. My doctor prescribed it because I had bowel movements almost every day, but the stool was so hard and large by the time it reached the end of me that I couldn&#039;t pass it. So my bowels would move...but the contents couldn&#039;t exit. I started Linaclotide 145mcg as directed on a Wednesday, by the next Wednesday I was very uncomfortable, bloated, clocked an extra six pounds (surely not actual weight gain), and hadn&#039;t passed any stool or had any arrive in my rectum. Pico-salax was needed, the meds stopped, and I&#039;m still not returned to baseline (14 days from dose 1). We&#039;re not sure what&#039;s happened."