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It's quite mechanistic. They sometimes cut that part out when they do surgeries like that (depending on where they cut)... without cholestyramine, diarrhea, but with it, no diarrhea. It's typically one of the first things to go in the small intestine. Edit: the test would probably be the...

I guess it's just Welchol and cholestyramine then. I heard back from my doc and he said it's better if the Welchol is taken regularly. Well, let's try it. Maybe I can ease into it by taking both? Ugh.

As I posted here, For someone with surgery to their small intestine and who now has bile acid malabsorption, can anyone advise as to the best pill-form medicine to control diarrhea, for whom cholestyramine already works very well? (to complement Imodium once-a-day). Welchol seems like it...

Thanks. I'll do that then.

I'm sorry you need to lose more of it. I have read about stem cell transplanation in rats in 2005-6 to re-introduce bile acid absorption, but no further research seems to have been done. (ncbi . nlm . nih . gov / pubmed / 16256913) I should probably post this elsewhere as well though... I am...

My surgeon is no longer my doctor for quite a while. My regular GI doctor does not know very much. I posted here to see if anyone has any ideas!

(Hi -- I've never posted here so this might be the wrong place although it is accurate.) For someone with surgery to their small intestine and who now has bile acid malabsorption, can anyone advise as to the best pill-form medicine to control diarrhea, for whom cholestyramine already works very...