Published on 12, July, 2020
Don't you just love the news these days?
I have just read, with some considerable bemusement, that this particular anti-diarrhoea medication MIGHT "counteract biological processes underlying ASD" by binding to our μ-opioid receptors - you know, the ones normally affected by heroin, morphine and other opioid drugs. This is news worthy because it MIGHT impact our "core symptom" of "social communication deficits." Who knew!?! I wonder if it will stop us getting the sh**s too?
So it is probably very simple after all everybody - although "further work" will be required to test this hypothesis! [gosh, I love how they keep it balanced.]
I just thought I would lob this red meat into the arena at stupid-o-clock in the morning to give me time to beat a hasty retreat before the lions wake up. I was never here!!
Loperamide helps me more than any other medication or intervention, tbh. I don't think there's any direct effect, it just means that I don't have to devote 80% of my attention to staying within range of the nearest toilet, which makes socialising a lot easier. My digestion has run much faster than a normal person's since I was born.
Interesting....but do you think that's just you rather than a ASD related matter?
I've heard that gut problems and autism often go together. My father has the same overfast digestion and same autistic traits as me. Neither are something acquired during life, they're both lifelong, almost certainly neurological, conditions.
Good to know. I have suffered with phantom gut issues that mimic colon cancer. Very worrisome, until I got the all-clear. Symptoms still persist - which are literally, a pain in the ass!