How long was your longest constipation?

About 9 days ....was on pain killers. Strangely I didnt feel plugged up, but I was getting a little worried about situation.

It only happened once while I was growing up when I went five days and I can't even recall the reason. Mom declared that it was enema time and it was one of those few times that I ever saw her make a full bag of Ivory soapy warm water. It worked, too.

Probably 6 days. I went in for outpatient shoulder surgery and was constipated when i arrived. I was discharged when I was still suffering the effects of the general anethesia. I tried a standing enema after day 4. l couldn't take more that cup or so and the only thing which came out was water. I gave up, then I get a followup call from a nurse and he said oh well, these issues usually work themselves out, God I was uncomfortable. On the morning of day 6, got a huge urge and sat on the tooilet and pooped out a huge mass which would not flush without breaking it up. It also caused an anal fissure which required treatment. Since then, I have been successful in getting inpatient surgeries and getting an enema as well. I will never let that happen again.

Maybe a day, I'm a very lucky person and have only been constipated due to side effects from other medication. I can take two immodium in the am and have a normal bowl movement in the evening.

When I was 17, I busted my leg pretty bad in a motorcycle accident and ended up in the hospital for about a week. I think I was getting morphine for the pain. Each morning and evening they checked my vitals and would ask if I had a bowel movement. After 2 days of nothing, they gave me a laxative at bedtime. Next morning, nothing. So at bedtime I got another dose of laxative and the nurse said if I didn’t have a movement by morning I would have to have an enema.

I wasn’t afraid of the enema since I was giving myself enemas just because I liked them but I worried that I would get a hard-on like I did when I did it myself. And the nurse was good looking and not too many years older than me. But the next morning when I woke up I had to shit. The biggest shit of my life. So no enema. That was 4 or 5 days. I don’t ever let myself go beyond 2 or 3 days without an enema these days.

2 days without a BM, I am taking an enema. A 2 quart warm, soapy enema. Usually on the afternoon or night of the 2nd day.

I wasn’t counting at the time but think my worst and longest bout of constipation was 11 days. It was the first and last time that I used opioids for abdominal pain that was probably caused by constipation in the first place. I only had two doses but suspect it shut my already slow colon down almost completely. By the end I was feverish, constantly nauseated, and feeling completely wretched.

I did visit the emergency department; while they did not help my predicament at all, what ultimately ended the episode was an adverse reaction to the oral contrast solution they gave me to visualize my bowel on CT. That reaction violently cleaned me out from both ends at home the next morning.

These days I normally don’t let things go to the fourth day without resorting to an enema, and I may intervene even sooner if the backup is making me feel unwell.

Not exactly sure but it was longer than a week and less than 2 weeks, probably about 10 days. Immediate relief came from several Fleet enemas followed by a 2 quart bag of warm water with baking soda. Further relief with a change in diet. Still experience some bouts of constipation but not as severe as.

I've become constipated each time I've had to take opiates for an injury or surgery. Probably the longest I've gone without a BM in each of these cases was 3-4 days, at which point I gained relief with a large soapsuds enema. A few times suppositories were tried first.

I do not let this go on. After two days come help with stool softeners and laxstives

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Other than right after surgeries when the heavy narcotics bind you up, I've never really suffered much from constipation. So maybe a day or so would be the longest for me.

Having read many stories on Zity, I wish I had thought to feign constipation as a kid because I think my mom would have been pleased as punch to fix me up with an enema. I know my grandma would have, but we only went to visit her one time when I was eight years old. My older sister told me of a time when she mentioned to Grandma that she couldn't poop and before my sister could add another word, Grandma had filled the red bulb and upended my sister for a quck enema.

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When i took my back injury i was on morphine 12 hour extended release tabs and the constipation was really bad and sometimes i would go 5 days but after that i thought i would explode with the cramps and pain. I actually became hooked on enemas from the nurses at the er. One of them was talking to me and she said she really enjoyed them after that i started doing them at home on a steady basis. Most of the time my girlfriend administered them until i was able to walk again.

Back in the year 2000, I was in a plane crash, was in the operating room that night as they put my foot back together. I was in the hospital for several days and on pain meds. They gave me a stool softener, I don't recall it working, nor do I even remember being constipated. After several days my back started to ache, I spoke with a personal friend, an MD. He suggested I might be constipated.

I had a hospital bed, had a bar called a trapeze that I could pull myself up with, a great thing to hold an enema bag. I prepared the bag, hooked up to it and got filled. I had to go so bad I was barely able to make it to the toilet, it shot all over. Bear in mind, I couldn't walk, so that was a difficult trip to the toilet. Nothing like a good flush when you need it. the hoseman