Anyone ever experience pain while taking align? My 9-year-old daughter has abdominal issues which my doctor is investigating. We haven’t found a cause yet, despite blood work and FOBT. Our next plan of action is a barium swallow, but we’re still waiting on that appointment. In the meantime, it’s been a process of elimination and we’ve been trying some over-the-counter meds to see if they can help. First Med he wanted us to try was ranitidine, but with the recent recall she was only able to take that a little over a week (with no help anyway...). Next our doctor suggested trying Align and upping probiotics with yogurt and kefir. So since she has a hard time swallowing the capsules, we empty it in activia and she’s been taking it over a week now, almost 2.

Her abdominal issues (pain with nausea, vomiting and occasional diarrhea) typically only occur for a few hours to a day every 3-8 weeks (completely unpredictable without any known correlation with certain foods or activities that may make her anxious or nervous...). But since starting the Align, she’s had very bad pains with some diarrhea just about every day for about a week. I can’t say 100% that it’s the Align causing this because we’ve all been fighting off a cold the last couple of weeks, but none of us have had those symptoms so I feel it may possibly be the Align. I’m thinking of giving her a break from it for a few days to see if the pain stops and go from there. Does anyone take this and had similar symptoms at the beginning or have suggestions?