Hyoscyamine and Bloating: What Users Say

• Rel...
• May 7, 2021

For Irritable Bowel Syndrome "I am one of those people who has to be in so much pain that I feel like I may need to be hospitalized before I take a medication I don’t know very well. I was prescribed this medication years ago. I’ve only taken it three or four times. And every time I took it, it made me feel better... took away the horrible pains and bloating and stomach spasms. It also helped release the tight intestinal muscles and relieved constipation (I was afraid it would exacerbate this from what I read on the internet but it did the opposite). Hopefully, I will stop hesitating and take this before I am in intolerable pain. Hope it helps anyone reading this. Going for abdominal/pelvic CT just to be safe but it’s probably garden variety IBS."

• Sas...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• May 15, 2020

For Irritable Bowel Syndrome "My doctor prescribed this medicine to me for my IBS-C condition, and he told me to use it whenever it was needed, and not a specific schedule. Well, I have been taking it on and off for months, and the side effects are getting worse and worse every time I take it! I get insomnia, hard to urinate, abdominal pain, bloated, gas. At night, I will hallucinate! This is really scary medicine. I stopped it immediately, and I am going to have to talk to my doctor about something else he can give me for my IBS-C because I would honestly rather deal with that than this medicine! The medicine worked really well for a while, and the side effects started off being mild, but the longer I took it, the worse the side effects got."

• lin...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• July 12, 2022

For Irritable Bowel Syndrome "This was the worst drug for me. I ended up using it for a little over four years, thinking it was helping me and my severe IBS, but in reality, it was just slowing my GI tract down to a crawl. So much so, that my IBS worsened. I became reliant on suppositories and enemas to have a BM. The constipation, caused by hyoscyamine, caused bloating, nausea, and GERD, which had me taking more hyoscyamine, which just further worsened the issue. It was like a horrific death cycle I wasn’t able to break free of because I didn’t know the hyoscyamine was causing the problems. I lost so much weight and became so insanely sick. Unfortunately, trying to get off this drug was also awful. My GI system had become so reliant on it that it didn’t seem to know how to digest and work by itself. Still, I quit cold turkey, and after 3 or so months, I was thankfully able to get my body back to a reasonable place so I could find an IBS treatment that actually works. Stay away from this drug."