Experiences with Librax?

HI Harleigh

Not sure about the drug, but I have some other ideas.

Here is some info and remedies to help with your condition.

Causes

Crohn's disease can be caused by a variety of factors, including poor diet and nutrition, food allergies, imbalanced levels of hydrochloric acid, impaired immunity, infections, lack of exercise, "leaky gut" syndrome, pharmaceutical drugs, and stress.

Note:

Pharmaceutical Drugs: The following drugs can all cause and exacerbate various gastrointestinal disorders, including Crohn's disease: Accutane, Alka-Seltzer Antacid and Alka-Seltzer Pain Reliever, Anturane, Genuine Bayer Aspirin, Bayer Plus Aspirin, Bayer Regular Strength Enteric Aspirin, Bufferin Analgesic Tablets and Caplets, Ceptaz, Clinoril, Cuprimine, Ecotrin Enteric Coated Aspirin, Feldene, Ilosone, Lamprene, Leukine for IV Infusion, Lopid, Marplan, Meclomen, Novantrone, Paraplatin, Piroxicam, Prokine I.V. Infusion, Retrovir, Rynatuss, Supprelin Injection, Suprax, Ticlid, Tolectin, Toradol IM Injection, Trecator-SC, Trilisate, and Voltaren.

Quick Action Plan for Crohn's Disease

1. Diet is of primary importance. Avoid all sugars, refined flour products, and carbohydrates, milk and dairy products, processed foods that contain preservatives and artificial sweeteners, alcohol, hydrogenated and trans-fatty oils, as well as foods that are common allergens.

2. Emphasize organic, fresh vegetables and non-citrus fruits, organic grains, as well as organic, free-range meats and poultry and wild-caught fish.

3. Drink plenty of pure, filtered water throughout the day. Gallon a day if you can.

4. Enema containing butyric acid two to five times a week. (Add one tablespoon of butyric acid to one quart of warm water.) Do a Colon Cleanse to clean out the toxins in the body. A liver cleanse will help new blood penetrate the sick areas and help the healing process.

5. Supplements with vitamin A, beta carotene, vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and zinc, taken with a multivitamin/multimineral formula. Essential fatty acids, especial omega-3 oils, are also recommended.

6. Stress reduction through the use of various mind/body medicine techniques, such as biofeedback, hypnotherapy, meditation and relaxation exercises.

7. If you smoke, stop and if you are currently taking aspirin or other NSAIDs, consider replacing them with safer, more effective natural remedies.

8. Soothing baths two to five nights and alternating hot and cold water packs placed over the stomach and upper abdomen.

9. Juice remedies include aloe juice; wheatgrass juice; cabbage, papaya, and carrot juice; and carrot, beet, and cucumber juice.

10. Juice of half a lemon with warm water, especially in the morning.

11. Allow yourself to receive emotional support to help you embrace some of the common underlying issues identified with Crohn's, such as abandonment, anger, disappointment and rage, which often settle in the gut. Seek out a therapist or other skilled practitioner that can guide you through emotional healing work.

12. Learn about colon and liver cleansing to start ridding of the toxins in the blood. This is the key to long term health (for any disease).

Best of health to you

I don't have any problems with Ativan (Lorazipam), and have taken it for years. With FM. chronic pain, RLS and all the rest of it that goes with it, sleep is difficult, at times. .5 is not much, and I see no reason why you cannot use it with the Librax. All of these lead to some dependency, however. From personal experience, I'd not recommend these newer things that have come out --- Lunestra and Ambien. Both really interfere with short term memory, from everyone I know that has taken these. Some hints to improve your sleep --- get some really strenuous exercise sometime every other day, limit chocolate, coke, coffee and tea after 2:00, a hot shower before crashing, and reading something that you know you can come back to tomorrow night. You will be surprised how easy it is to come off of your day time tranqs when the stress levels off.... And I love these "holier than thou" pharmacy kids. There is no shame on having a med dependency.... one is dependent upon water, oxygen, food etc. If the med makes you able to live your life more comfortably, and do your job better, it has value in your life If your doc feels otherwise, he probably would want to to endure a surgery with an aspirin!!!