Question about a particular side effect of Plaquenil...

I've been on plaquenil for 3 weeks.   I take it with my lunch every
day, so I'm eating it with a full meal.  The problem is the horrible
digestive problems it's been giving me.  Every day I am fine until
about 1 hour after I take the Plaquenil with lunch, and then I spend
the rest of the afternoon (at work or confined to my house on the
weekends) with horrible digestive gurgling that keeps me running to the
bathroom with *you know what*!

My question is how many of you have this problem or have you had it
diminish after being on plaquenil for an extended period of time?

I'm taking 200mg, and quite honestly, it's extremely disruptive to my
life...God forbid I have an afternoon meeting and I have to leave 3-4
times in an hour to get to the bathroom (besides the fact that it's
horribly embarrassing to deal with this in my office bathroom)...and on
the weekend days I can't really go out of the house all afternoon until
this side effect dies down.

Oy!  I need some sort of hope because while my illness has horrible
symptoms, I don't know if I can live the rest of my life with 4 hours
of every day devoted to running to the bathroom.  Also, I'm concernd
about retaining nutrients and getting dehydrated.

Please tell me this will die down eventually?

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Sherry (25.01.2007 22:23)

William R Thompson (25.01.2007 22:51)