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Of course. Symptoms: gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, mental slowness/fuzziness (I was always saying "sorry, I'm really out of it today"). Symptoms could last anywhere from 12-48 hours, and usually the onset of the symptoms was around 4-8 hours.

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Did they do an actual test/sample before prescribing th medication or just take a guess?

Congratulations on escaping all those terrible symptoms!

Thank you! They guessed; they have seen this many times. They did other tests as well, and all came back negative. It was an "off-label" usage of the prescriptions, meaning that it is an unapproved treatment, so insurance didn't cover it. On that note, anyone purchasing medication should probably check sites like GoodRX.com before doing so, because it saved me a lot on those meds. Also, good pharmacists know several "discount codes" that they can type in at the register similar to those provided by GoodRx.. I don't know the proper terminology for this, but once you give them a code from GoodRX, you can say "do you know of any other good codes to try?" That worked for me.

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