My husband uses a similar strategy, but it takes 3 immodium pills before meals and a benefiber tab after meals to successfully slow things down and bulk up. He has experimented with dosages a lot and this seems to be the regimen that works for him after his right colon resection nearly a year ago. Different for everyone so you have to experiment with this on your own.... Docs can't tell you for sure what will work. He was close to having a colostomy but colorectal surgeon at Mayo indicated one can take a much bigger immodium dose than we were initially told so he tried more and it worked to curb the constant diarrhea - surgery averted!