After years of having symptoms under control with opium tincture, I have now been switched by a new M.D. in San Diego (I Live in San Diego, but my M.D. are in L.A. and Santa Barabra)to Lomotil, Bentyl, Questran, and Tylenol #3 when needed. Where DTO worked perfectly, in tiny doses, I now have to take 4 separate meds. I'm so fed up. I tried their way for three days this week. For the first time in 4 years, I was RUNNING back to my car, fearing I would "loose it" right at the pharmacy counter. I hadn't been that close to loosing it in 7 years. I have a high stress job where I'm susposed to be "on" all the time. I can't take an unexected break from a meeting I'm leading to sit for 30 mins on the toilet. Also, I can't get my work done when I worry that the toilet on our level has been taken and I won't have time to make it downstairs.Everything was going so well for a while. For over 3 year I didn't date anyone; finally, I've dated 4 beautiful people, and I think I getting very serious with one, but he deosn't know about all of this.... My new GI doctor says he doesn't believe in triplicate prescriptions, and says I need to get back to more conventional medicine (which I've tried, to no avail). I will pay out-of-pocket to see my regular G.I., the sympatethic guy who is willing to prescribe DTO to those very few patients when it's warranted. I don't want to live the alternative.I can't go back to the way my life used to be. It's not worth it to me. I still have the 960ccs of Opium Tincture my other doctor prescribed. 1/2 of that would be about 480cc, or 4,800 mg of morphine or a pleasant good night's sleep from whence one would not awake. Wash it down with some Seconal, Xambien and Vodka and await eternal bliss.....