Prucalopride Makes Me Very Hungry All The Time
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Is anyone taking prucalopride resolor? Im just worried because since i started it four months ago, i feel very hungry all the time even 10-15 minutes after a meal. Is anyone using having the same experience? help

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Yes I am experiencing this, plus breast swelling..:(

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I'm really hungry as well. If you keep taking it for a while it goes away. I've been off it for a month because I ran out. It definitely works the best for me but always makes me so hungry at first. I'm also dieting right now so I'm staying even though it's only 3:30 in the afternoon. Also when I first started I was hungry and eating a lot but I actually lost weight so I think it's ok. Like I said it should calm down in a bit also if you don't need it don't take it. I only need it a couple times a week to clear me out. So a box usually lasts me several months.

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Re: Carole (# 18)

Hi carole, I know this was years ago but for others reading this thread. It is different for everyone but just depends on how much waste are in your pipes and how severe the nerves are damaged in your intestines. I've been taking prucalopride for 5 years and im staring constantly. I will try to skip a meal somedays but its nearly impossible. I've put on over a stone in weight and I have to skip some days even a week sometimes because it depresses me with the constant mood swings and the hungar prangs.

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It’s my 3rd day and I have same thing , I am feeling hungry to whole another level .... ??

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Re: Samantha (# 63)

I try to alternate, so maybe take every other day and break on the weekends.

I can't stop eating too - it's so embarrassing and depressing to put on weight.

It causes constipation as it is hard to control what types of food I eat when taking the tablets.

Go back to your doctor as they are quite damaging as your bowels will rely on them and they will definitely not work when you stop.

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Re: Whitney (# 12)

I've been on it for over a year and i have to train twice a day in the gym as i can't stop eating. I can't stop thinking about food and i literally can't control what and how much i'm eating. It is leading me to depression if i'm honest as I can't afford to buy new clothes and i have definitely put on over 14 pounds.

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Hi, I know this thread is from a while ago but just wondered if anyone could up date with how they are doing with Prucalopride and the hunger issues. I’ve been taking it for a year now but still it causes me to get very hungry and bad tempered! I want to stop taking it but it helps for my bowels a lot so not sure what to do!

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Re: Beatriz Couto (# 20)

Hi, I know this thread is from a while ago but just wondered if anyone could up date with how they are doing with Prucalopride and the hunger issues. I’ve been taking it for a year now but still it causes me to get very hungry and bad tempered! I want to stop taking it but it helps for my bowels a lot so not sure what to do!

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Hi all! Glad I came across this thread. I'm 24, had chronic Constipation since I was 2. I have an ace stoma, and was also put on prucalopride about 4/5 years ago. It's always worked well for me, sometimes within 20 minutes, other times a couple of hours. Sometimes it will stop working as well, but I have my stoma to fall back on.
I too, have experience an increased appetite. Though it's not everytime I take it. I'm not due to see my doc yet, so I haven't mentioned it to him, but it's good to know I'm not the only one to experience this!

Has anyone had trouble trying to lose weight on this?

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Re: jac2006 (# 21)

Hi. Glad I saw your post. I had tried changing my routine when after 8 months the tablets stopped working. I did see that there was no evidence of a benefit in increasing the dose but after 2 days, with 1 in the morning and 1 at night I'm ecstatic to see results!

Guessing it's going to be an ongoing learning experience as the body gets used to this product, I'm feeling a need to keep changing my meds to prevent my body becoming immune to it again....

Looking forward to my next biofeedback appointment! :)

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Re: Gabrielle (# 40)

RE: "My son went into the bathroom after me and it looked like world war 2 had taken place. The mortification of it. I'm so upset."

Did you not clean up after yourself? Bleach? Toilet brush? Disinfectant wipes? Air fresher? I don't know any self-respecting adult who goes to the loo and after a particularly explosive motion 'Doesn't clean up after themselves'. You should be mortified - not for what you produced, but for not cleaning up - and for your child having to see that.

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Re: MikeZ (# 57)

Hi i didnt take them for long may be one or two a day for end of first week, i tried to do without them if the headaches were just background i only had the horrendous ones for about the first 3/4 days where i took about 3 each day in 3 separate doses and as it was the first week of taking the prucalopride and i wasnt really thinking id see any benefit in one week id say i saw no worsening of condition by taking the co dydramol. Hope this helps

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Re: Mitch (# 56)

Thanks for the reply! So the co dydramol was only for the first week, until the headaches went away naturally? Did thia cause any loss of effectiveness of prucalopride given it has codeine in it, and opioids can cause constipation?

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Re: MikeZ (# 55)

Hi Im on 2mg my bowel was seizing up before i started it and isnt great now i still have to take lactulose every day and senna at times but its made a big difference in that i now dont need surgery to have my bowel removed. I found the only thing that would shift the headaches was co dydramol ask your gp to prescribe you some. I hope things go better this time for you

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Re: Mitch (# 54)

Thank you...it was hard when I had massive headaches and left with nothing to take or no solution. I may try again. Its kind of scary though how a bowel can seize if you stop...they said no rebound effect which is a flat out lie. Ive never had my bowel stop like that even at my worst.

Are you on 1 or 2 mg? Thanks.

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Re: MikeZ (# 53)

Hi. I took a brief break and went back on it as my bowel too seized up again after stopping it, you should try to stick it out for longer than a week as i had bad headaches and leg pain for about a week or just over then they went away.

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Hi,
Did anyone ever stop or take a break from Resotrans? I was on it earlier this year, and it worked, but gave me massive headaches. After coming off, my bowels just 'froze' and were worse than even, even though the manufacturer says it does not cause rebound. I was only on for less than a week. Now I don't respond as well to some of the herbal medicine I used to take which helped me before. It's been a massive struggle.

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Re: AshB (# 49)

Hi yes it has dramatically reduced the bloating in my stomach, i was so distended and uncomfortable had to go up a size in jeans but since taking it things have improved, i still cant eat much more than a semi solid diet and certain foods dont digest well, i also still have to eat little and often and some nights i am still very bloated and get horrible pressure in my stomach and for some reason my lower back but by late morning its reduced and this is only on rare occasions now as long as im careful with my diet. Before the procalopride i was bloated all the time and i was scheduled for total removal of my whole bowel so its helped me immensely, i hope it works for you

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Re: Newfoodie (# 31)

Is it still working for you sorry I know this is an old post but I am at my end with feeling bloated and constipated 24/7. Done all the diets, drinking water even bisacodyll doesn't work. Need some hope

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Re: angela (# 45)

Hi im on Resolor and take Lactulose 30 mls daily i also take 3 pieces of licorice and a hot drink of molasses daily and take a glass or 2 of tomato juice and plenty of water and the resolor is helping as before taking it i was taking some of the other things plus 90 mg of senna 3 times a week and sometimes not going at all, it did have an effect quite swiftly only to tail off but iv persevered with it and now after several yrs on it its still helping immensely, i had to take the resolor continually for a few months after the initial fall in its productivity to see it really kick back in, if i miss a couple of doses i really pay for it with my bowel seizing up completely so id say stick with it

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