It sounds like you wrote my story, fine alone, but the second I have to somewhere with someone, big time diarreha. My GI doc has me on 4 Imodium a day, sometimes it works, othere times not. He says it is a safe drug that I can take for the rest of life if I have to-go figure how different doctors think, if they do not know what the heck they are doing how can we?I also take 3 Caltrate calicium a day and Nulev if I am out and start that horrible feeling, but like you said all it does is delay things!!