I have chronic diarrhea accompanying extreme abdominal pain w my ibs. antidiarrhea pills have been working good. anything else i can do for flare ups?

IBS: There are many illnesses that mimic ibs, so make sure this is what you have. But for cramping from ibs then antispasmotics do help. Medications such as Bentyl (dicyclomine) or levabid help the spasms associated with ibs. Regular bowel movements also help. Use metamucil.

Hmm: Consider antispasmodic medications, low fodmaps diet (google it), ssri medications.

IBS-D cures: As a syndrome, ibs likely represents a number of diseases that manifest with the same GI symptoms. As such, lots of different ibs-d treatments work, but have varying results per patient. In addition to diet modification, binding agents, anti-spasmodics, fiber supplementation, treatment of sibo (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), for female patients with severe dirarrhea-ibs there's lotronex (alosetron).