By this time the drug company Salis is giving my scrip as for free with no co-pay though it might be both Medicaid and Medicare that deletes payment...….New York has a tiered payment system with Xifaxan the highest possible (5) and doctor has to get permission from drug company and/or insurance for me to receive....Being that two 550 mg. tabs a day along with colestipol , which I have been taking since surgery 7 years ago.A lot of normal stools,watery, sludge like on occasion ...too many bathroom visits 10 to 12 a day, only sleep through entire nights sometimes, but boy o did the colostomy bag through the year or two of J pouch set up was extremely bad, not comfortable,separating from me at any time,irritation round the stome, and after the first three surgeries(removal,pouch building,hook up) had a fourth for the stoma point herniated, only they found number two and three,,from surgical drain pipe and painkiller hole, now I have oval mesh stapled in my inside skin, but ...well. I AM HEALTHY with no irritation seen during last partial sigmoscopy last month...….