I've been using mebeverine for when I have an 'episode' of my IBS accompanied by sweating, bloating, gurgling and urgent need to go the toilet' however I recently have had trouble with alternating between diarreah and constipation so I tried to find something that I could use daily that would make me have BMS more regularly- I tried colpermin and took one before bed last night but woke up three hours later with really bad tummy pain and diarreah and had to take a mebeverine to calm it down. Does colpermin sometimes not work or make things worse? I want to find something to make me have normal BMS 
thanks x
Hello Copermin,
Lifestyle, lifestyle, lifestyle! Not drugs! Love, not war...with your body!
When you suffer from IBS and the excruciating bowel cramping to expel its contents, you are highly motivated to change your diet to stop the symptoms of this condition.
You need to keep REGULAR and ....everything will be fine. When you eat constipating foods and you don't eat enough fruits and vegetables in a day and maybe don't drink enough water...your bowels block up.... then the muscles in your bowel walls need to work harder than ever to push along the bowel contents. To keep your insides working well you can do the following:
1. Eat 6 - 10 servings of vegetables and fruits per day. No more beige meals! Only delicious, jewel coloured vegetables on your dinner plate.
2. Get some exercise every day to keep things moving...whether it be walking or a sport or an exercise class.
3. Limit constipation causing foods such as white rice, cured meats which are salty like ham, salami, hot dogs, too much meat in general, salty foods like crisps, dairy and tea until you get things under control.
4. omit dairy products from your diet if you can...or limit them and replace them with delicious almond milk.
5. Drink plenty of water. (I have a pitcher by my computer so first thing in the morning I drink down 2 full glasses). For every cup of coffee or tea, both of which are diuretics (cause you to pee) you have to take one cup of water to replace the water lost.,...and then drink a cup of liquid such as water to be a cup ahead.
6. I often take 1 tsp of psyllium husks (Metamucil or Fybogel being the expensive but identical alternative) in the afternoon in a tall glass of water.
7. If you have particularly sluggish bowels, take 2 -3 tablets of magnesium before bed. In the morning you will produce a foot long, soft, stool that passes in 3 seconds. And that's it, no pain, no cramping. Everything should pass easily. You will need to gauge whether to take 2 or 3 tablets of magnesium often depending on how bulky your stool was from the previous day. You will learn that in order to avoid the intense cramping, you need to be on top of your bowel activity.
When you have IBS as we all have, you will do anything to avoid the intense pain of bowel cramping.If we all just drank plenty of water, filled our dinner plates with colourful veggies (no beige meals) and moved our bodies more, we would be fine. Listen to your body. Lifestyle, lifestyle, lifestyle! Treat your bowels well and they will thank you. Good luck!
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Hi there, personally I dont get on with Colpermin or any of the peppermint oil preparations. It is supposed to work by relaxing the smooth muscle of the colon and relieving stomach cramps, but I dont think it would do anything to stop the diahorrea. I also find Colpermin gives me acid reflux because it relaxes the sphincter at the entrance to the stomach thus allowing acid to come up. Good old Imodium works well to stop diahorrea but then I find it 'bungs' me up for days afterwards! As Ive said before its trial and error with IBS to see what works for you and also what doesnt!
I started having IBS when I was 13...and I was SO afraid of the pain but didn't know what to do. I thought...as you seem to...that the issue was diarrhea when in fact it's the opposite. I finally learned this thankfully. If you take Imodium, yes, you do block yourself up...which is the opposite of what you want to do. You think...I've got diarrhea...but why? Because your bowels are so full that the bowel muscles have to cramp and cramp and cramp (VERY painful!) in order to move the load of %&$#@ out of the body. That is when you have diarrhea...because of the constipation. So the answer to the IBS problem is to KEEP REGULAR. First of all AVOID constipation (water, veggies and fruits, exercise and avoiding constipating and bad foods). I take 2 - 3 tablets of the natural mineral, magnesium EVERY night before bed with almond milk (I avoid dairy like the plague) and i am as regualr as clockwork. In 3 seconds flat, you empty your large intestine. And you are as right as rain for the day....every day! I have been through LOTS of trial and error and LIFESTYLE is the solution. And it makes perfect sense. Treat your bowels well and they will respond in kind. Good luck, Eliza.