I asked a pharmacist about the difference between magic bullets and dulcolax
and he told me the active ingredients are the same, the magic bullet simply
dissolves faster. I just use the bisocodyl suppositories and only a digital
check to be sure I'm empty. The day before I use glyco-lax three times. I drink
a tall glass of water the night before.
Medication changes have always caused some trouble. Anti-biotics either bind
you up or clean you out. No telling what they will do next time. I take
hydro-codone and it can stop everything so I'm always sure not to take one 6
hours before getting on the commode. I mostly need them when I'm up in the
wheelchair anyway. Someone said oxycontin bound then up. It would do exactly
that. Opiates and derivetive opiates virtually paralyze your digestive tract
for a period of time. If you have the runs, hydrocodone, percaset or oxycontin
should be a remedy. I can't say it enough, do not abuse these drugs! Like the
anti biotics and anti siezure drugs some of us use, these are very strong
drugs. Tylenol is a serious medication that has never caused me to bind up, but
it is hard on the liver. The only time I have a hard time driving my wheelchair
is when I'm taking a pain med.
My commode chair is rather comfy. My sister made a seat for it with 6 inches of
foam that always poofs outward. My feet are on a stool (the kind you put feet
on)and there's a sprinkle of baby powder on the seat. Don't remember why, but
after 32 years its part of the system. The only time I have trouble seems to be
when I'm not using my commode chair. I guess I love my potty! :->
Oh yea, the strangest thing I do is read the bible while I'm on my throne. I'm
not saying its an act of God. But I seem to go faster and easier. Everyone all
together now, "HOLY CRAP BATMAN!" I've tried other books. nada! I'm not
preaching, it just happens to help me.
Best wishes
john C-5 post 32
----- Original Message ----
From: Danny Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; quad-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 3:23:28 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Magic Bullet Suppositories losing their potency?
Lori, I do remember you and a lot of the members talking about that subject of
the Magic bullets and it was a while back---but I recall you and a few others
saying they seemed to be losing potency, I also recall all that marketing Scam
or whatever was going on , making them unavailable or very hard to get for a
long while. I don't know if any ingredients were changed then or not. We use
the other type ( I think the slower acting Veggie oil based) but we do keep
Magic Bullets on hand to use on occasion if we are in a hurry...( I think they
are water based and a bit faster acting ) if ones system has not changed or
like you said--got to be less effective. And like you stated...Our bodies can
go thru changes and OR different drugs can have an effect also. Funny how this
Quad Life can be so complicated, at times we all must help our own doctors
even, to solve some problems.
Hang in there Dan""
Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know that we have discussed this exact topic but it has been at least a year
or so since we did so. Anyway, if you read my previous post you will have read
that I am back to doing my bowel routine in bed and I am no longer on OxyContin
to bind me up. Even when I was using my bedside commode and I was in an
upright position... the Magic Bullets have seemed to have lost the potency they
once had.
I began using them around 1990 when a coworker of mine told me about them. At
that time, and for 10 years later, they worked lickety-split within 30 minutes
and most every time I was completely evacuating all by myself. They were truly
Magic Bullets!
Even in 1996 when I was hospitalized for my shunt surgery and HAD to do my
bowel routine in bed (after using the commode chair for so many years by then)
and I had absolutely no problem going after the insertion of the Magic bullet.
This is no longer the case.
There was a time around three years ago that the makers of the Magic Bullets
took them off the market but from my investigation I found out that it was a
weird sort of marketing idea because afterward they were more expensive. Most
people were told that the formula had to be 'or was' being changed, etc. etc.
etc.... but I did not buy into that foolishness even if folks still believe
that as gospel today. And it WAS THEN, and since then, that I have noticed a
great difference by having them not work like they used to.
Now.... no matter if I am doing exactly what I was doing before and now adding
shredded wheat to my diet and other things for encouragement in the bowel
department routine... I will feel a whole bunch of pressure as if I am going on
my own but we will wait an entire hour and it simply will not come out. So I
need the digital help EVERY SINGLE TIME because they're not working like they
used to.
One could say that my body has changed, etc. etc. and that may be true but,
especially not being on that binding narcotic anymore, there is no reason I
should not be going at least partially on my own. In fact, after weaning
myself off of the narcotic... for a good week or more afterward I was going at
all times of the day. Ugh! Loose too. My body was not used to all of a
sudden not having the narcotic to buying me up a little bit (or a lot) after
eight years and my bowels had a hay day! Fortunately it did not take much
longer than a week to get it straightened out. But now I am having the
opposite problem except for I am not bound up or constipated.
When someone recently posed the question of possibly using two Magic
Bullets.... I recently thought about that myself but decided that would be too
rough on the lower bowel. They still DO get my stool right there and ready to
come out but that is the end of the story.
I remember a week in 1997 when I did not go for that entire week and could not
figure out why. I began drinking prune juice daily, super increasing my fiber
intake with absolutely nothing happening. It then dawned on me that I had
began purchasing generic Senokot tablets that did not say "Senokot" on the box.
So I had a family member go right to the store and get those and that was the
whole problem! I sure went after that!
That is not my problem now however. But... my bottom line question is still
"Has anyone noticed the decrease in performance of the Magic Bullets over the
last several years?"
--
Lori
C4/5 complete quad, 28 years post
Tucson, AZ
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