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?
Who knows?
My tongue was in my cheek there. Nobody gets to socialise with anybody, if they can't leave their bathroom, :-). They do say we are far more prone that the average bod to gut problems, but you don't have to be autistic to have IBS or diverticulitis, of course.