Sluggish digestion and C/L not working

[Dash7412]

I am always super careful about not eating for at least an hour after taking my Rytary C/L ER, but if my digestive system is the least bit sluggish (I usually take Miralax daily, due to sporadic constipation), then I will have 2-3 days of rarely feeling “on”; I will do well to feel anywhere close to 50% “on”. Thoughts?….suggestions?

[MarionP]

Low tech, low industry, all natural: daily prune juice, $5-6 for a whole big bottle, take about about 5-6 oz. Taste great too. Or instead, have an omelette. Something about the egg protein combination of protein does the same as a very small dose of stimulative laxative. So you have either one and you're not dealing with the harshness or craziness of chemicals and God knows what else some corporation is shoving...

[johntPM]

Constipation has been a big problem during my journey through PD. Normal medications would not work. In the past, I would often go a week without pooing and be on the toilet for over 6 hours in one go.

I can only defacate easily if I attack the problem from all directions: the poo has to be kept soft; the straining muscles need to be enabled; the psychology needs to be good - at the same time each day, after food. I defacate every two days. The procedure starts the day before I want to defacate:

Day 0, before bed, I take a sachet of miralax.

Day 1, on getting up I take my PD medications; 30 minutes later I eat my breakfast; (on poo days only) 30 minutes later still I give myself a plain water enema; 10 minutes later still, I can expect to poo wth no problems.

This works fine until I miss a defacation, and the poo gets hard. If things are bad, I drink a pint of warm orange juice and a miralax every hour. I limit myself to three orange juice, miralax cycles.