Getting Constipated..

Emjaybe, Let me offer you some good medical and personal advice here. You can take it or leave it, whatever you want to do. If you are not leaving for about 30 days try Miralax out now, don't wait, make sure it will work for you with no adverse reactions. The recommended daily dose is 17g which is one cap full. Start taking it soon at the recommended dose and continue doing so until you are having soft stool at least on a daily basis. Then at that point cut it down to a half dose every day and see if you are still going regularly. I am pretty sure that you will be. This will keep you regular and comfortable. But start it now, get your body accustomed and acquainted to Miralax. I really like it. It's gentle and has absolutely no taste and dissolves quickly in either hot or cold liquid. Also, you can't even tell it's in there either. I have had other medications or other bowel stuff that you are supposed to mix in a liquid and even if it doesn't have a taste it makes the fluid have a weird thickness for lack of better terms. Anyway, good luck to you.

Mashie

If you really want to jam up the world then go to your local bakery and buy a loaf of hot white bread. Eat it with out water or drink. If you want to create a concrete impaction then eat the loaf of bread and start taking oxycodone,or morphine or some other narcotic. You will have a blockage that will defy castor oil, citrate of mag, milk of magnesia, Miralax and Dulcolax.

Jean

Iron is evil, lol. I am anemic so my doctor put me on iron tablets twice a day. It has made me really constipated. Normally, I can go twice a day, but not really anymore. Sometimes, like now, it's been 2 days, and I have no urges to go, but a small belly ache. I have started taking a stool softener and it helps some. I don't like being constipated because I don't have anyone here to "fix" the issue for me. My Dom, isn't into med/fet (damn it!).

With my background it's no wonder I never make myself constipated. But it happens.

Question re: an earlier post - "shit hooks"? Medically-approved devices for shit-stabbing and shit-scraping, obviously - but can someone supply a link to an illustration?

With my background it's no wonder I never make myself constipated. But it happens.

Question re: an earlier post - "shit hooks"? Medically-approved devices for shit-stabbing and shit-scraping, obviously - but can someone supply a link to an illustration?

SEE THIS:

http://www.jorvet.com/product/soft-edged-surgical-spoon-large/

I just have to look at my belly cross-eyed and it can shut down. That said I do do stupid stuff from time to time. The last very memorable occasion was one weekend where I had an omelette and hash browns, pizza, macaroni and cheese, and I can't remember all what else - but it wasn't what I should have been eating. Uff. Fortunately I knew about enemas.

The most annoying bit is when you're feeling bad, you can feel your gut working, it seems like something is going to happen, finally - but then you get to the bathroom and pfft - just a fart and then nothing.

Go gluten free to solve your constipation problems.

Go gluten free to solve your constipation problems.

Assuming that digesting gluten is your problem. Celiac isn't as common as people seem to think.

I tried the gluten free bit for a month, no change. Yeah, diet can be an issue, but it isn't always a sure thing.

Gluten is a protein.

Celiac isn't common, but there are loads of people who jump on the gluten free bandwagon mostly to be a pain in the ass to people who cook their food.

@SwitchableSusie, unfortunately one entire side of my family is celiac. One son, one daughter, and ex-wife. I know quite a few people whose symptoms only disappeared when they gave up the offending grains. Some were tested, some were not, and as for the medical profession's assertion that the only way to determine celiac is by testing, it's partially true, partially not. Gluten sensitivity (as I found out) is also a thing, and testing doesn't necessarily show it up. Unfortunately, medical professionals don't always adequately uderstand these mechanisms, and some people (my son is one of them) have a very strong reaction to all grains, but testing doesn't seem to show these allergies as one might expect. Just my $.02...

I generally don't have problems. Once in a while if I take an opiate based pain killer it will be like laying an egg the egg the next day but a lot of the time that is not even a problem. I eat a lot of fruit. Traveling has never phased me at all. It never occured to me that it would.

My SO on the other hand is on a med that gives her issues. She was taking peri-colace on a regular basis with her doctors blessing. She also took some enemas but she was not into doing that. She is trying to adjust her diet so she needs little or no external help. We made a batch of stewed prunes tonight for her.

I am neurodiverse, and all my life I have had problems with constipation. Every day, every movement, is different from the last, my frequency and timing is variable, and I thought this was normal most of my life. Eventually I learned about the gut-brain axis, and considered it as a symptom of my neurodiversity. Now I am thinking I will seek an IBS diagnosis, because it is quite frustrating. Today I have a fecal impaction, this is the third day I have not really had a proper movement. I have managed to get a little bit of movement this morning, thankfully, and am waiting on 5g oral bisacodyl to kick in and hopefully flush me out top to bottom. I've never used it before so I'm kinda excited about that as well, now that I'm developing this suppository/laxative kink, this will be my first experience with oral laxative. If that fails I plan to use 2 glycerine suppositories and a warm bulb enema, held in knee-chest for 30-60 minutes, and hopefully that will get enough of the mass softened and lubricated to trigger a movement. I don't think I've had a fecal impaction before, or at least, not this bad. Probably maybe like 1 day, but this has been very frustrating, and worrying as well! So I think a diagnosis might help, and I need to think about some of these things like enemas, suppositories, laxatives not just as occasional kink experiences but now as aids for my gut health that I may need to use more regularly.

@loolay I grew up with serious constipation problems and the doctor's advice was for my mother to insert the suppository after the first day without pooping, so as not to worsen the constipation. After two suppositories, if the effect was not satisfactory, she would give a small enema.

There was a time when I could only poop with a suppository. These guidelines were given after spending almost a week without pooping and needing to do 3 hospital enemas.

@Anne20 sorry to hear about your difficulties. how are you getting on nowadays?

@loolay Currently when I realize that I am constipated, I already use a few days of glycerin suppository so that the situation does not worsen and it has worked well.

I usually have the opposite problem, Loose stools caused by stress, though a few occasions more recently have been constipated, and the stomach pain has been such to keep me awake,

mention has been made by previous posters that bread causes constipation, well not for me, quite the opposite,

and for the record, no thankyou to an enema, once was enough, an unpleasant and messy experience I never wish to repeat

@Yolo sorry to hear about your troubles. how do you manage?

doctor has put me on Laxido, a macrogol 3350 like Miralax. I am to take that for three days, 2 to 4 sachets a day depending, and see how I am in 2 days.

@Yolo sorry to hear about your troubles. how do you manage?

not very well !