Severe abdominal pain at night - is this normal??

[Moonlight81]

My 8 year old daughter has been diagnosed with chronic constipation. She has visited the hospital multiple times in the last 3 weeks with abdominal pain. She is now being treated for fecal impaction with Movicol and senna. She has had some bowel movements over the last couple of days - watery with some solids - but the problem is that her pain is very severe. Every night from around 7pm she begins to experience stomach cramps and pain that is severe enough that she can’t do anything at all and is in distress. She hasn’t been able to get to sleep before 1am for 4 or 5 nights as a result. The only thing that helps is watching TV and even then she’s still moaning and crying out in pain. Is this level of pain expected or normal in this situation? We’re going a bit crazy because we’ve taken her to A&E with this severe pain five times in the last few weeks and each time we feel like we get basically the same answer - hold your nerve and keep going. But the pain seems really, really bad. Has anyone had a similar experience? I’m wondering if the bowel is so severely backed up that something more radical needs to be done but I don’t know what that would look like.

Thank you all.