@midas your not gonna really find better information or experience than Sean or myself , I am a daily prescription user of both Mirilax and Lactulose having been on all manner and combinations of oral / rectal laxatives / stools softeners you can think of . So if you have any dumb questions ( no question is ever dumb if you don’t know the answer) regarding taking any laxative or stool softener or what effect it will have , feel free to PM me. You might say I have attained a PhD by first hand Experience of taking it and pooping it . I started in Spinal rehab along with all my classmates being trained with glycerin , some people recover independent bowel bladder function and go back to using a toilet, some stay the same , and others start the trial and error academy from where I come from . I have tried very conservative dosages to super aggressive doses of everything you can think of available in the US .
With any amount of osmotic agent increase your fluid intake , it keeps you from dehydrating and improves the effect of the agent .
take it on an empty stomach so as a rule of thumb 1 hour before a meal or 2 hours after, food will greatly slow its desired effect .
in the prescribing directions it says 45 ML Q 45 so every 45 minutes until what’s called “emergent laxation” occurs and then resume whatever your normal schedule and dose is since your not on daily dose you can ignore the resuming part for me that would mean I go back to taking 40 ML before each meal , you will get incredible amounts of gas when you first start taking it , the gas wears off after about 3 days when you take it daily .
once you start taking it surrender the thought you have any say in the matter of controlling your bowels , because you won’t , what’s going to happen is chosen for you.
being your new ” emergent laxation” means you are going to so thoroughly fill whatever your in with shit . it better be as super premium diaper with one size larger plastic or rubber pants over top ( my first time overflowed my diaper into my plastic pants ) and came close to getting the bed pad . At the time I was rolling in NS Supreme with Angelfluff “ blue Ice” pants , I have at this point transitioned to supreme or Megamax for travel with Babykin’s rubber bloomers ( bloomers are designed and purpose built to be ultimate protection for people who are mostly sitting or laying in bed) ( double diapering will not help , it will actually constrict the poo pocket of the inner diaper increasing the chance of overflowing , when I take it on the “Emergent laxation” protocol I have never made it beyond 2 doses.
say you take the first dose at 1 PM the 2nd at 1:45 PM you would start taking another dose at 2:30 PM then 3:15 continuing every 45 until you go , I am always diaper Filling before a 3rd dose or more would be taken , I am 5’7” around 160 pounds and am completely sedentary being in a power wheelchair ,an active person without my medical limitations who can excersise will generaly fill a diaper much faster than I can , I have neurogenic bowel and bladder with obstipation ( neurogenic means there’s so much wrong with this SOB we aren’t going to try and precisely figure it we call it neurogenic and get paid , only issue then is getting my bowels moving and decreasing the consistency of my stools 8 oral laxatives and stool softners a day with 3 suppositories every other day got me anal Fissures and bleeding hemorrhoids and eventual not enough was coming out to be able to put anything in because of constant pain , that’s when I was switched off the escalating oral rectal laxative /softener Try this and this and more of this and another suppository .
Now it’s much simpler Mirilax & Lactulose not half me life parked over a toilet waiting for something to possibly happen . I have worn diapers because of bladder for 30 years , so there was no adjustment period or trouble accepting them , thus my ending shit or get off the pot , by no more pot and guaranteed I shit 4-5 X’s a day . Using my normal schedule and divided dosage .
the higher the bolus Dose is the faster it works . So larger more frequent doses such as above will give you faster onset,and almost all waste in your system is coming out when it says . For a normal person you will be urged to go , if you resist the urge it guarantees a full diaper that much faster , you may Think you have a choice for a few minutes ,it’s a false choice .you are going to fill your diaper that much harder !