Imodium / Loperamide Highs Cause Cardiac Arrest and Death
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Hi Amigos! A few things:
1) I disagree with the paper's notion to regulate Imodium sales. It's a common trend in medicine to want to control the actions of every person. Even if real imodium overdose cases were 100x of the reported number, there are still 10x more people injured by toilets every year. So we should regulate toilets too? The mandated administrative costs and resource allocation would be unreasonable for the problem at hand.
2) It can be thought sometimes doctors live in an ivory tower ("social media data delivers low medical evidence"). The US healthcare system is driven by what government and private insurance will pay for. If you do something they don't approve of, they can even yank your license or prevent you from being paid or employed. This limits the voice of patients and drives the culture of "we [doctors, insurance, government] know better for your health than you do for yourself." Lots of times, we do.. That's why we're doctors. Other times, we don't.
3) I hold no responsibility for what you do with your body before and after this video.
4) I will give no medical advice here. Ask your doctor or pharmacist. I also give zero instructions on how to use this medicine here and can't be blamed for misuse. Read the box.
Leave a like if you enjoy this kind of video! It'll let me know whether I should make more.
Holy shit this is a long comment!
+Chubyemu Are you nurse?
i say in the first 10 seconds what i am... it cant be that difficult
as a medical student i find this kind of videos really interesting, keep it going!
Kool? I myself ,a young chap, really is not that familiar with this kind of stuff. but I learned few things in this video! So I myself would like to see this more on your channel! It's way better than most CZcams videos as others just cover youtube drama :D , as this contains more actual topics! Thx Chubs.
"It'll be a very shitty high and you'll be constipated until the end of time"
Getting some mixed messages here...
4 years later: Dr. Bernard looks like a cool anime character, has catchy phrases that get turned to memes, and this video is "a tiktoker drank candy, soda and cough syrup".
-emia, meaning “presence in blood”
Very true about harming many to save a few. I had a brain tumor at the age of 34. All the rules but in place to stop drug addicts made my life a nightmare. After my surgery I was given pain meds my pain got worst a few days later so the neurosurgeon changed my meds. He told me fill the new ones ASAP. I go to the cvs and the pharmacist yelled me about trying to fill drugs to soon and abusing my meds. Even when I asked to to verify that I want following dr orders he said no. It was so bad I had to take off my scarf covering my shaved head . Sadly only after seeing the staples in my head he stop treating me like a junky
Gl man i hope cancer wont come back for you but it always does :/
M Soda - I feel your pain. (No pun intended.) I’ve had four spinal surgeries and I’m getting ready for another. Fortunately, I’ve been going to the same pharmacist for a long time and he knows my doctor is legit and I’m not abusing anything. If you were really harassed, like you said you were, I would complain to the CVS corporate office and immediately change pharmacies. Mid-prescription dose changes are nothing new and if your pharmacist can’t understand that, you need to go somewhere else. You should NEVER have to humiliate yourself to get your legally prescribed meds.
M Soda I can relate!! People with invisible disabilities are treated SO TERRIBLY in this country.
Best of luck to you, check out Kratom for pain relief. It is a natural plant that has almost no known harmful side effects and works as well as any opiod for most people
M Soda
In Ohio, you can’t even get pain medication.
"Constipated to the end of time" sounds like a mythical fate one would not even wish upon inlaws.
US logic: instead of making safe opioid withdrawal treatment more avaliable we should create a huge database which would prevent addicts from using worthless home remedies and normal people from buying diarrhoea medication. Buprenorphine or methadone treatment should be easily accessible so people aren't forced to use loperamide.
Not only US logic. Prohibitionism needs to go. Only makes things worse.
Thank you so much for standing up for people who AREN'T drug abusers! There is an active epidemic of providers denying access to drugs to people who desperately need them but are viewed as potential abusers.
Tadesan it's bullshit. Abuse happens but honestly what's worse denying innocent people their medication or accidentally giving in to an abuser? If you suspect abuse is taking place then offer them help, people don't want to be drug addicts, no one aspires to be that
@@aktw1234 ^^ thisssssss. stop criminalizing abusers and start helping them.
@@aktw1234 I don't think I would mind being a drug addict. I can think of worse things. Taking an opioid dose several times a day, in a carefully measured amount, from a product supplied by a legal manufacturer, being dependent on getting that dose and not wanting to miss it? What is so terrible? I am already addicted to brocolli, rice, citrus fruit, potatoes, and probably a half a dozen other thing - if I go too long without any of these, I crave it, and I feel terrible if I can't get any after certain amount of time. All of them are simple agricultural products, and they are all that not that difficult to acquire when I need them.
Obviously denying people Loperamide is silly because nobody develops a heroin addiction by taking Loperamide as prescribed. However, every user of painkilling opiates IS a potential abuser. It is a myth that opiate abuse is caused by a failure of moral character. It is a myth that opiate addictions are never caused by appropriate use of prescribed opiates.
When I was in college I got my wisdom teeth out. Trying to wear my retainer shortly after the operation was painful enough that I used the prescribed opiates to dull the pain. To this day when I'm having a really bad day I occasionally think about how nice it would be to take an opiate and conk out on the couch like I did after removing my wisdom teeth. Fortunately I know the danger of addiction and am able to resist the temptation with this knowledge. I have never used any drug recreationally. I have a respected profession. I am still tainted by my experience of using opiates as prescribed for a few days, years ago.
Sometimes people are in severe pain, and prescribing opiates is the right thing to do. But every time you do it, you run the risk of creating a potential abuser. The medical industry is finally coming around to the idea that it shouldn't be done lightly, and they're correct.
@@jumpy23 How does one distinguish between someone who is using opioids appropriately and someone who is abusing them. Is there an actual difference, or does the difference come down to those who have authority and power having the power of definition in their hands, and there being no objective standards? Yes there are some people who we felel, emotionally, are being more harmed than helped by opioids. But what is it about them, if anything, that make this so?
I know this is horribly insensitive however I busted out laughing when he said, "So when you
see a heroin addict know that they are almost always constipated."
Witty Name , Humor is OK. Even one Tramadol makes my gut stop moving. Urgh.
This is so true.. I used to be backed up for 3 days at a time and would shit out a foot to 1.25 foot long shit that was an inch thick
Can't you contradict that with eating those gummy worms/bears that really get your intestines going? I mean opiates sort of make the whole system just stop.. and that candy makes the bowel really move. I'm quite serious... I'm not an opiate abuser but just one Tramadol and my gut just stops..
Change your diet. Eat more fiber and drink lots of water. You'll shit every other day at the longest, usually when you wake up in the morning before you dose or shortly after, when the blood plasma concentration is at it's lowest and thus the effects are mostly diminished. It may take a little time to get right, but that should fix it. Until your body adjusts, you can supplement it with bisacodyl or senna to get things moving.
Haha, wish it was that easy. Maybe some people really have it that easy but most... nope. Fiber does nothing for moving the gut actually, it only has to do with how soft your poop gets.
"So, when you see a heroin addict, know that they are almost always constipated."
Anyone else suddenly thinking of _Trainspotting_ ?
I'm happy to hear a Dr say Healthcare is outrageously expensive. My wife needed an emergency appendix removal surgery and it was 160k.
This scared me. Immodium is a lifesaver for me, allows me to not have to leave functions when I get IBS flares.
It’s saved me during bouts of gastro and during severe IBS flares.
Just remember these people were taking 50-100x the recommended dosage. I don't believe there are any reports of life threatening side effects from normal use.
Why would it scare you? Are you taking 50 at a time?
They are the best ibs is terrible!
I am missing a significant portion of my colon. Depending on what I eat, I have the runs. Normally I take about 10 lomotil a day. If lomotil ended up restricted, I'd never leave the house.
"Constipated to the end of time" lmao
People are dying because their colon got impacted with a concrete turd.
As someone with chronic diarrhea (no opioid abuse), good to know!
Master Bob opioids give you constipation not diarrhoea
Teethgrinder 83 🤔 dude .....
Lorelai yes?
Lorelai he’s right some opiate addicts don’t use the bathroom for days
3,4- Methylenedioxy I know that, if you see the OP's initial comment, you'll get it.
Probably a prime example of those facing a huge wall to treatment are chronic pain patients. Oy...don't get me started! Anyway, thank you for your content and for breaking it down and making it understandable to the mainstream. Your compassion and passion are so much appreciated. Please continue to share!
I was waiting for him to say "pERseNtiNg tO tHE eMerGeNCy rOOm"
I deeply respect your stance on regulating loperamide, I hope the horrors of having to deal with opioid addicted patients won't change that.
Learning with Dr. Bernie.
Keep them coming! I really enjoy these videos :)
thanks :) new one out today
shitty high..i see what you did there Dr. Bernie
Ivan Dagani more like the opposite, you WON’T shit
this is depressing how few views this got, actually really solid content
Four years later....... Lel
I see you got that door chain going.
SLOWER FUTURE too funny, that was the exact thing that distracted me in watching the video!
yeah you'll need that extra bit of protection when you are going to attack the health-system
Also the door chain around the neck.
@FUCK GOOGLE - Looks like an IKEA lamp :P
That's important to you? You're a stalker?
Thanks Bernhard, you are correct and it is what happens with most laws past. Help the very, very few and hurt the many.
The FDA has now imposed regulations that are making it much harder to buy loperamide in large quantities, especially over the Internet. They want makers to package it in small blister packs only rather than larger bottles. Unfortunately there are people with inflammatory bowel disease (like myself) who take it regularly to reduce symptoms (with physician supervision, I should note). Removing the larger packages, which greatly reduces the cost per dose, places a really unfair burden on people. My insurance coverage will not cover any product that is available over the counter, whether it is prescribed or not, so I have to pay out of pocket. Currently a 200 pill bottle sells for about $30.00 when purchased locally. I used to buy the same bottle online for ~$10 but can't find them at that price anymore. I can afford this as I have a good job but there are plenty of others in my situation who can't. All because of some junkies. :-(
All because the FDA saw another place to make more money and harbor more control. Junkies are the scapegoat that allows them to do this over and over.
It's a matter not of doctors or insurance companies so much determining what to do with medicines but the input of the Drug Enforcement Agency.The DEA are cops,not experts on medicine.They are not there as a patient advocacy group nor as a stingy insurance company group.They are there to respond to anything that intoxicates or adds to an intoxicated condition with an immediate:Control,limit and hopefully eliminate it attitude.Look at the reaction to loperimide.Many people with either a brief case of diarrhea caused by eating to much of something they can tolerate in small amounts or people with chronic diarrhea like those with IBS-D benefit greatly from this OTC medicine.Now, because it can cause a high in huge amounts and as Bernard points out,not a high that's even worth getting,the DEA is telling FDA to control it.I guess if one is going through undesired withdrawal from an opiate like heroin,it might be a bit soothing,but that's purely a guess as I am in no way in the medical field and can't speak from genuine knowledge.Even if this happened twice in ten years,The DEA would make a big deal about it and demand that immodium be regulated more closely.The number of people who get high on nutmeg hasn't caused the FDA to control it tightly.Who knows,maybe most people use it for baking and cooking instead of getting high.
when i was in high school my friends and i used to get high on coricidin cold and cough pills (hbp). then my mom found out, did some research and found how horrible it can be. i of course got grounded but my mom also called the local news station and setup an interview. after that all of the grocery stores in my area required state identification to prchase coricidin and others like it.
on a side note when i finally saw the news piece i was very angry. the way it was edited it was awful. when they came to interview me i was in my room and had just got done watching a slipknot dvd. so they wanted to come into my room and film me in my natural habitat if you will. they saw the dvd case on my ps2 and really wanted to get that slipknot dvd in their footage, to the point that they asked me to put the dvd back in the ps2 and play it for them. then they turned it around and made it like slipknot and my coricidin usage was connected. im not a fan of slipknot anymore but i hate seeing people try to do this to heavier music. that was when i stopped watching regular news channels, it is hard to trust them.
you are absolutely right. they often twist facts and use scare tactics for viewership! they literally make “mountains out of molehills”. and the worst part is that they always report the worst events, hardly ever the good things people do. i stopped watching local. (NYC,NY) years ago.
and you know what? UTube is wonderful for good stuff - i love watching people saving animals 🐶 and other people, cops 👮🏽♂️ who are good people and help out, many things you want to know about or study like this guy, like vet shows, Art 🖼, and lectures. you don’t get that on regular news. oh my, i certainly went off on this.
you are so right to be pissed off. good for you for posting what they did! Do take care and Keep safe :) 🌷😉
Nothing better than seeing righteous passion and a nuanced understanding in the same place at the same time.
I'm an EMT and I'd be REALLY interested in hearing the medical/chemical background details of opiate withdrawals. I've been binging all your med videos, they're great!
This is a very good video, Bernard! I enjoyed it, along with your intelligent way of handling it. Thanks!
I've never actually commented despite me watching your content for awhile, but I had to express my gratitude and say how impressed I was.
thanks!
I wish I'd seen this long ago, but omg thank you for these.
Dr. Bernard, I love you!! You clearly have a mind of reason and hearing your opinions are refreshing. Please keep making your videos; they are like a breath of fresh air.
Thank you! About a year and a half ago, I had a really stressful time moving. It ... precipitated the main condition that indicates Imodium usage, let's just say. For three days. Finally, I managed to shuffle to Duane Reade to get myself a box of Imodium. I already have significant social anxiety, so, having to ask a pharmacist for medicine related to defecation would probably have made me try to tough out the symptom. I might have dehydrated to death or significant physical or intellectual disability. On the toilet. Alone. In my new apartment.
As it was, I just barely managed to walk to a drugstore, faint af from anxiety and the symptom (both its dehydration and cramps), in a huge hoodie and sunglasses, and buy myself the Imodium I needed.
Pharmacy student here.. (sorry for bad English)
Last October, I was an intern in a hospital, we had a case where a 5 month old baby almost died from loperamide overdose.
The story was, the baby was suffering from diarrhea and loperamide was always the drug of choice by many since it's a OTC drug. The mother decided to buy 3 capsules, removed the capsule shells, put the loperamide powder in boiling water along with some guava leaves, and made the baby drink it all. Just minutes after, the baby was rushed to the hospital and the baby's heart beat was so low.
So, lesson learned, DO NOT SELF-MEDICATE..
What an idiot lady.
That 5-m.o. should have been left alone.
The ranty portion at the end was very on point and I am happy to see a hands off approach being supported by someone whom I've already gained respect for by watching his other videos. Keep it up Doctor Bernard!
I worked in an inpatient hospital pharmacy from 1984-1992. When I started working there Loperamide had recently been changed from from a controlled substance to a regular prescription drug. In 1988 it was approved for OTC use. So it went from a controlled substance in 1976 when it was approved by the FDA to over the counter in only 12 years.
Imodium is a life saver when you travel in 3rd world countries , I hope they just leave just leave it be , nanny state knows what`s best for you..........yeah right !
Wait, how is it a lifesaver?
@@threepeater_gaming7710
Dehli Belly and the like are very common simply because as a foreigner, you aren't used to the food of the country you're visiting
Threepeater sometimes you aren’t used to the bacteria or viruses in the food and water like the locals are so you get sick with gastroenteritis.
If you are so weak, just avoid visiting those "3rd world countries", as no one is forcing you to do so.
I got what I'll call Arlozorov's revenge coming back from my latest trip to Israel. The loperamide didn't really help at all, and I had an utterly miserable flight. Once I got back home, I took some bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol), and things cleared up real quick.
I never knew loperamide was in the same class as morphene, I have been on 2 tablets my whole life due to a condition.
Found a 5 year old Chubbyemu video I haven't seen yet, absolutely love you man.
it is nice to listen to a rant based on facts from a person who has the relevant knowledge and who knows how to process the information in a rational manner - so rare these days
I can’t think of any drug less fun than loperamide, I can’t imagine anyone looking at that and going “I can get high off this!”
Man, I'm European and whenever the US Healthcare system comes up, I shudder and kiss my insurance card.
LOL
Not Finnish, are you?
Man, i'm American and whenever Europe is brought up, I shudder and kiss my constitution.
@@scipioafricanus3324 why? what in all the world do you have that is better? what?
"insurance card"? What? Are you... American?
I appreciate how you breakdown complex medical cases into basic components.
A few things on loperamide: 1. It does not easily cross the blood brain barrier, even in large doses. You need to take it with something like rantidine to get it to cross. 2. It really is a shitty high and should only be used for the intended purpose. 3. There is significant risk to your heart with high doses and even if you do get high the stomach pain will be intense. 4. We will only see more of this happening with the opioid epidemic. 5. You are absolutely right about regulation in cases like this and the fact that it's been touted as a "study" to the laymen.
love the vid thank you doc its always good for someone to inform you about stuff where to lazy to read
2:15 "It's going to be a shitty high." Not the most appropriate metaphor! More like a "lack of shitty" high.
Except it DOES get you high lmfao and at least for me it wasn't a "shitty high" so much as it wasn't as good as Oxys but it DOES get you high, and for a very very long time due to the fact you have to take so fucking much of it.
All these retards that either haven't trued it in this way, or are massive dope heads talking shit are just talking out of their ass, you included.
Do I suggest or endorse? Fuck no, it's bad for you, but it DOES work
Dude they were joking, no need to talk about your drug abuse story.
After seeing all the headlines and having to now get my Immodium from a locked case at the pharmacy, I panicked about taking just two for diarrhea! I really appreciate the nuanced stance you give.
Hey Bernie, I know CZcams is screwing you over. But please keep this stuff coming, yours is one of my favorite channels. I absolutely love how knowledgeable you are, and will watch every video until I run out.
Well this sucks! I have IBS and take Loperamide, sometimes on a daily basis. I only take 2-5 caplets in a 24 period, as directed, no more than 5 because then I'm on the other end of not having ANY movement. Due to that seesaw, I'm very judicious in my use. As usual, laws are not for the many but for the few. As to a comment about CNN...no, they're not perfect but no news outlet is 100 percent correct. For that reason, you should get your news from many different sources, they all have their own spin, whether to the left or the right of the aisle. Thanks for providing another source of information.
I have IBS too. I’ve found Colace to be more helpful than loperamide.
By CNN's logic, every OTC med should be regulated. After all, it's possible to OD on just about anything in a Walgreen's if you take enough of it.
Shit you can get water poisoning if you drink enough 😂😂
As a rule of thumb: 1. EVERYTHING is poison and 2. NOTHING is poison. It all depends on the dose.
Government owns news networks now, but it's the Pharma's thatown governments >: ] more regulation means more price hikes >: ]
Omg at this kind of video, it’s so stripped down and conversational and I honestly love it! I love the other stylized vids too but some of this super casual type would be absolutely welcome! Thank you for the content, however you choose to deliver it ❤️
Dr Bernie, I'm an absolute fan! Keep doing these videos please, thank you!
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how effortlessly he roasted CNN? This is an awesome video. Keep up the good work! 👏
I feel the rage in your voice! Where’s the un-cut version with the pacing in circles and the wooden chair smashing??? Lol but I agree with the choice of “regulation” of otc meds based on two cases. So dumb and a waste of resources if it were ever to happen. Smh
I commented on another video of yours Chubs, again, really nice to see inteligent insight from an insider about this theme. Very good content. I'd love to see you talk about advances on techniques or just papers you found interesting recently. Brazilian cheers!
Thanks for your videos, and please keep posting them. I'm a pharmacist and it irritates me to no end when people take very weak evidence and distort it into some misguided gut reaction that then drives their decision making. Scientific writing and interpretation of data should be taught in high school, but I didn't get any of that until I went to pharmacy school.
You are amazing Bernard!!!!!! Love your vlogs!!! Just found you🍂🌾new sub.💕
I actually have ibs so I actually do use this meditation a lot. It really saves my butt quite literally lol. Without it my butthole burns and I’m in for a bad time 😂
i really hope you get more subs my dude the stuff you post is always so interesting you should have your own tv show
Pls make more videos, your content has given me wisdom about my body and the things that may harm it. You are helping me protect myself from ignorance. And that to me, is priceless.
Interesting. FDA blaming Kratom for some deaths but almost all the patients had loperamide on board.
I am an opioid addict. I spent 15 years abusing everything i could find after getting prescribed a shitload of Oxycontin after breaking my arm in the 90s. There was a point in my life where I would take 20 loperimide tablets at a time to stave off withdrawal when I didnt have any drugs. It worked like a charm, but did make me feel a bit tired and shitty, which is to be expected I suppose.
I have been in a VA Buprenorphine treatment program for 3 years now, and I am very thankful to not have any desire to get high. Thank you for making this video, because in the addict forums on the internet this "home/OTC remedy" is very popular and everyone knows about it. I had no idea it was so dangerous. Addicts have enough danger in their lives, they dont need this shit too.
Amen, young man! I absolutely do like this kind of thing. People need to know what the M.D.'s are dealing with. What keeps you from doing the best job that you can do? Clearly you are motivated to do good, to do what is right for patient care. Keep it coming, young man!
Thank you so much for explaining this accurately, most people have ZERO idea what they're talking about on the issue. I've been an opiate addict for 20 years and 10 years ago I figured out I could take mega doses of loperamide to stave off withdrawals. Loperamide is a calcium channel blocker and lengthens QT just like methadone and that is when it becomes dangerous. I took lopersmide to stave off opiate withdrawals for several years. Yes, it is dangerous but it shows how desperate opiate addicts have gotten, they go through more than people could ever imagine.
I really wish the US would treat their drug addicts better. Addiction isn't a legal problem, it's a health problem. Stealing property to get a fix is one thing, a crime. But buying oxy from your friends grandma shouldn't. Throwing an addict in jail is the worst thing you could do to the addict. Should a cancer patient go jail for using tobacco?
Addiction isn't really even a health problem, but more like a social one. You know all those hospitals that treat soldiers with serious injuries? They use diamorphine, which *is* heroin, just cleaner - but somehow military operations don't result in hordes of addicts; people leave hospitals and never have the urge for another heroin shot. Why? Because physical addiction without mental addiction results in an overall depressed state that passes over time, as you go through detox. People who don't know they got physically addicted to heroin in the hospital, "just feel not very well" for about a month and get better, cared for by their friends and families, without any substitute meds. It's so easy for them exactly because they never develop mental addiction, so there's no feedback loop in their mind to make them crave the narcotic. And it's the same with any other substance: while undeniably having detrimental effect on everyone, sometimes really after the first dose, *nothing* can turn a person into a junkie, it can only help somebody who's already on that road downhill to get there faster.
Nick Howe Agree. Addiction often has underlying issues, somatic or psychiatric.
I take loperamide to help with my IBS. Sometimes I have to take as much as 6mg a day for a week or two. Yes, I've tried FODMAP and all the other diet changes and no change. Loperamide keeps me from running to the toilet every hour or so with diarrhea during those times. Now that the FDA has pushed through the changes making it harder to get more than enough for a couple days, I would have to pay exorbitant amounts to get the medication I need. I saw it coming and bought what amounts to a two year supply if I had the worst symptoms for 2 years straight. I know other IBS suffers who didn't. This baloney isn't helping stop the opioid crisis, it's just making drug companies richer by being able to charge insane amounts for a drug that is so generic it isn't even funny. I know it's going to make me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but just look at all the news about drug companies raising prices on drugs that are necessary for people to live or charging insane amounts for new drugs that serve a niche but it greatly improves their lifespan and life quality.
ccapwell Agreed. None of the regulations are about protecting the public. That's the excuse they use to usher in regulations that allow them to increase profits. It is a conspiracy. In addition, I believe that there is a concerted effort to get the public accustomed to being scrutinised and controlled. The new world order "elites" are training us to become obedient drones one regulation at a time. We give up more and more of our privacy under the guise of "combating addiction", we pay more and more of our income for everyday things under the guise of letting big gov't monitor us. And, agenda 23 is in full effect, (The agenda to reduce the population), with many of us dying because of exorbitant prices for medicines. The American people have become so fluoridated, that they are just sitting ducks for the Rothschilds and their cronies who want most of us dead, and the reminder serving them as ordered. Freedom is not ringing as loudly as it used to.
Yes! Loved your lashing out, against the continued addition of state control, as a knee jerk reaction to every problem! Really enjoying your videos btw, just recently found the channel so I'm watching videos all out of order 😀
I agree, I couldn't even buy Zyrtec D one day. The pharmacist heard me mention my fiance to someone and was like "I can't sell this to you because I heard you mention your fiance, it goes into a database under YOUR name but you might give it to him to use." I argued with her, but she treated me like a drug addict, getting all cocky and proud that she was enforcing federal law. I was so mad and humiliated I was in tears.
Loved this video! Especially the part where you took CNN and the US healthcare system to task. Hell yeah.
and if this gets taken off the shelf what do you propose to the people who have problems on the daily this is the only thing I've tried that actually worked for once
the recommendation is to have it behind the counter like Sudafed. I personally don't see how this is a problem. If you need this drug, you just get it from the pharmacists. If you need it in larger doses, then speak to your doctor.
Titan Harper you fucking get over you addiction
bun04y i work on a ship i need to have at least a years worth on hand if it is taken off the shelves im up a creek with toilet paper
Titan Harper: where is happening? The U.S. , where?
@@legobuildingsrewiew7538 What addiction...most people take it for bowel problems..or should we spend our lives in the bathroom 🙄
Thankyou for highlighting that over regulating something that only a few people abuse is a literal waste of professional time. I work in healthcare and I waste a lot of time because people want to do stupid shit like take the morning after pill a week later and wonder why they're pregnant. The list goes on and on.
You're saving lives, sir. You're saving lives.
Pain control is definitely inadequate in the hospital environment these days. When I went in for an operation for cecal volvulus afterwards they kept giving me 1000 mg of Tylenol in my IV. Ridiculous -- doesn't even work and it is toxic to the liver. Afterwards I got about 30 pills of tramadol which lasted for a few days. I had to tough it out, basically. Back in 2004 in a less opiate-concerned time I'd had an exploratory laparotomy (endometriosis misdiagnosed as ovarian cancer ahead of time) and got about 100 Dilaudid afterwards which controlled my pain adequately. In neither case was I "in danger of becoming addicted", although I suppose there is no real way they can know that. Sure does make me leery of going in to get my giant hernia repaired (hernia from all that abdominal surgery, lol!) Okay end of rant.
gryffynda1 Lol then never be sick in Sweden. The best you can get here is codeine and you have to be extremely ill to even get that. I have esophagus ulcers because I'm only allowed Naproxen for pain. When I was in hosp I wasn't even allowed that. Only tylenol. Ppl OD on it here out of desperation and that is deadly.
That is horrible!
@@gryffynda1 i beleive the reason for cracking down on opioid(not opiate use as heroin and fentanyl(mostly fentanyl) is abubdant) is to driv up the price for them legally and illegally
I need this stuff I have a bad pancreas and I'm only 16 and it's hard for me to go anywhere long distance without taking at leas one before the trip or I'll shit myself
You could get a job at College Humour. They make a lot of poop jokes.
Titan Harper Stoma/colonoscopy.
Dude! Bad pancreas has little to nothing to do with your poop problem! Keep track of your BLOOD GLUCOSE! The pancreas controls insulin. You are basically diabetic and I'm willing to bet you have IBS or gastroparesis or some other form of GASTRIC problem with it...maybe even because of it! Get into an endocrinologist and a gastroenterologist and figure out what really is the problem before you accidentally make your situation worse. Believe me, I was in your shoes about 6 years ago. Little did I know that I was actually diabetic, had IBS and was dehydrated as all hell until, one day at work, I nearly died within 5 minutes of feeling sick. You have to be proactive about your own health and start doing it now! The endocrinologist works with diabetes and pancreas problems specifically. The gastroenterologist is for intestinal problems. Unless you ask, your doctor won't send you.
This video was extremely informative. I have I.B.S. and have often taken Imodium in the past to ensure I wouldn't have issues when leaving the house for long periods (usually only one a day is fine). Having restrictions on this would be fairly annoying for me personally, not to mention (like you said) a waste of money for tax payers to control a substance seemingly rarely abused.
I loved this video. The best part was when you started getting fired up about insane rise in health care costs in this country. Id like to see a video of just that alone. You delving into the problems and your thoughts on it. You have my sub good sir, keep this great content coming.
Thank you for this. The US loves regulation over common sense in every aspect of life and industry.
My father died 2 days ago march 15, 2019 and we didnt know why he got into a cardi arrest they said because he chocked but that wasnt the really it i remember this week he kept drink imdioum because he had diaherrha.
Aww. Sorry to hear that. My grandma passed away March 15, 2014. Which is my grandpa’s birthday. His wife died on his birthday (lung cancer). Birthdays suck.
You have to practically start flailing immediately when you die. On the inside, you know? Because you have no control over where you’re being taken. Then there is the false Heaven in Hell that draws people into a false sense of security, so they do not cry out to God. It burns away to their horror or the friends and family that they are with start seeming off/odd/creepy in some way (when the demons manifest as themselves).
Julius Caesar was stabbed 47 times to death on March 15th. I think his was the most famous of all political assassinations and just a famous death in general.
Loperamide Hcl gave me a NDE. It’s not okay that he couldn’t just smoke marijuana as an option to calm his digestive tract. It’s not deadly and it’s impossible to OD on... While I know God doesn’t like it, I know it helps a great many people go about their day, too. Alcohol is legal and it does nothing for nobody. Personally I can’t drink it. Sends me to the bathroom-painfully.
Imodium is a heavy duty opioid, more so than marijuana.
bakarangerpinku wtf are u talking about my nigga
Why didn't you ask why your father died?
He would have to take a lot to kill him.
Cheepchipsable my father had a lot of complications but he never had a cardiac arrest before so I felt like the indium triggered it
PREACH! I'm both an IBS patient and a chronic pain patient and these restrictions negatively impact people like me so much!
I love all your medical videos, love how you explain things in detail that’s easy to understand.
Can you help me I’m addicted to Dr Pepper I drink 4 leaders a day how is it affecting my body I get a super bad headache if I go a while without it plzzz help
You are addicted to sugar and caffeine. That's a massive amount of sugar and it will do 2 things (1) give you type II diabetes and (2) cause fat to deposit in your liver (and elsewhere). The complications are numerous.
Your first step might be to substitute Dr P with no-sugar cola to ease the withdrawal. Eliminate as much sugar as you can from all sources. In 3 - 6 months you will lose a lot of excess weight. Start with that. It will be hard.
Maybe if you use proper sentence structure and punctuation, the addiction will go away.
LMAO
You need to make more med videos i enjoy them alot
Dude, if you could hear and or see it, I would give you a standing ovation! THANK YOU! IMO, you should be a candidate for the next surgeon general. i have been watching your video's for the last week or so. and your content is fabulous. keep up the good work. this "punish the masses, for the few abusers" thing has got to stop. and it goes way beyond just the medical field. this country was built on the idea of personal freedom. now "they" want to "protect us from ourselves" in everything "they" can think of. it's just plain unamerican!
I love the content of your videos, although I don't have time to watch everything. I'm glad I watched this one as your delivery was different from the others I've watched. I really appreciate your tone in this one. Your emphatic, impassioned voice really got my attention. Thanks for taking the time to educate us, the laypeople who want to understand these things.
Man, I am so interested in your stuff, but all of these medical videos make me sick.
I wish I could enjoy them without feeling queezy.
Caroline Bell. I know. My science medical math nut dad would love all this but I'm shaking like I'm thinking about a surgery.
GREAT INFORMATION though
What the heck haha he is so different now lmao 😂
I just ran across your channel, and really appreciate how you break down the information being discussed. Well done. I look forward to more of your videos.
I’ve gone back to your older content. It seems you’ve gone though the amigo phase and come out better and improved. Love the videos and the mannerisms. Thank you
What if you snort it •~•
that's a whole lot of snorting, 30+ pills. and it doesn't even get you high, It just gets rid of opiate withdrawal symptoms
it actually can get you high and put you on the "nod" if you take enough, but like the guy said its a shitty higih.
blisterpacman...agreed, it's not at all about getting high but feeling normal. I've taken large doses and I've noticed that my muscles have no stamina whatsoever...that means when I try to carry something heavy or to run, I'm literally winded in about 10 seconds, or I just drop what I'm carrying. What would happen if i had to put my heart through its paces? It would probably spell trouble.
Not surprising because it is CNN! xD
Potatocat Derrr, did trumpie tell you that? Fucking moron
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And this guy isn't the only one
As a recovering Heroin addict I can admit to taking whopping loads of this med, but not to get high, it was to curb some of the withdrawal while either trying to quit or not having any drugs. Even though it would work, I wouldn't use the bathroom for WEEKS.
I've always enjoyed your content - but this one got real. Keep going!
Finally someone whose opinion is rational, logical and I'm in 100% agreement with your position and why.
Love love LOVE! I have severe GI issues, and I have to take Imodium every week in order to be able to have a social life or even to be able to work at times. There was a period of time when it was very hard to get this medicine in the early 2010s, and my life was miserable as a result. Couldn’t go out to eat, couldn’t travel, couldn’t have a normal life, etc. And I’m not the only one who needs this medicine-my mother in law, my coworker, my two former coworkers, several of my classmates, and about 20% of the general population needs access to this medication at any given time. Two people died?? I am sorry, but it was their choice to make and their choice alone. Why should everyone else have to suffer because some people abuse it?
HI, DR. BERNIE! Thank you for the lives you save!
Dr. Bernie, please do a lot of such TEACHING! It is vital to the betterment of our society, people, and their bottom line in finance. Thanks.
You are AMAZING. I would fight for you until the ends of the earth, Bernard.
Thanks for illuminating the scale of influence in the discussion "right sizing" and it's perceived magnitude of authority.
You are 100 percent right the inconvenience of the many for the lack of control of the few.
I am so glad to see this video. I am a survivor of loperamide abuse. I was using it as a maintenence drug like methadone, and was stuck on it for years. I went to treatment and now I am taking suboxone and getting help. I hope nobody ever has to go through what I went through.
How much loperamide you had to tske to get high? It seems almost imposible
Social media is not an accurate representation of anything! Except like...stupid...it's pretty good at representing that. Thank you for this video! LOVE IT! and definitely agree. News media in this country is so dumbed down and yet remains confusing, misleading, etc! Thank you for making efforts to inform!
I'm really appreciating all of your videos and the clear presentation of information! I'm in college for engineering, but love medicine, so this is a perfect way to gain some insight into the industry.
Dr Bernie, Outstanding! I have now subscribed and as a teacher I plan on utilizing your videos in my classes due to your excellent way of presenting this material at such a easily understandable way! You are a great Doctor and Teacher!! I am glad you are so passionate on your explanation of what a waste of precious funding and resources to limit a valuable medication for a small percentage of those who may abuse it. Keep it up.... the more you logically explain why it's unnecessary, the better informed we all become which makes us better citizens to influence our government. Your video work here is invaluable and needed, thank you!
Very nicely presented ! I've been a Paramedic over 30years. I feel that it's safe to say that I have been on the tip of the spear regarding all of these overdoses. I also wear a Fentanyl patch for sever chronic Bach pain. I have been using this product for just over 17 years. I broke my back in 3 places as a Fire fighter. With all of the knee jerk reactions to these overdoses law abiding citizens who need these meds are finding more and more difficult. While all these overdoses are tragic , we cannot let those of us who need these meds as well as use them responsible suffer anymore consequence s Thanks for your time !! And please keep up the great job!!!!