Constipation

[Albert7]

What to start taking for constipation. I haven't gone to loo in 5 days, don't feel pain or bloated but stressed about where is it all going!! Have a headache and slight nausea post eating...have taken 2 movicol today so am hoping for results tomorrow...any suggestions??

[sandylo]

Ask your doctor for lactose syrup its great

[Ginnie2018]

I was dealing with the same situation since a year ago after a norovirus and had to go on constella plus laxaday (peg) on daily basis and at times combined. It took me a good one week then and had a horrible time getting he bowls regular… had to get a colonoscopy as they were suspecting a stricture around the anastomosis where I had my bowl removed some years ago …. The meds finally started working after June … and are still ongoing on daily basis . I hope you feel better soon .

[gussmithy]

Recommend Milk of Magnesia.

[xjrs]

Have you been diagnosed with constipation dominant IBS (IBS-C)? If these symptoms are unusual for you, it's best to get an emergency appointment with your GP.

If IBS-C and you've been tested for anything else, when desperate you can try this method:

ibsresearcher.com/constipat...

General advice here:

ibsresearcher.com/constipat...

[MuppetChristmasCarol]

hallo 👋

This sounds very basic but I found great results from eating soft dried prunes. Between 4-8 a day.

Such a simple natural remedy has such a good result for me.

Obviously you can use medical relief when really bad but eating prunes daily has completely eased my transit.

Regards Jac 🙂

[azaelea]

I find the old fashioned Syrup of Figs helps me but not every day although I take one tbspoon each night. Two does help.

[Fybogellover]

join the club, ..a woman, a

tire that’s flat, a

disease, a

desire: fears in front of you,

fears that hold so still

you can study them

like pieces on a

chessboard…

it’s not the large things that

send a man to the

madhouse. death he’s ready for, or

murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood…

no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies

that send a man to the

madhouse…

not the death of his love

but a shoelace that snaps

with no time left …

The dread of life

is that swarm of trivialities

that can kill quicker than cancer

and which are always there -

license plates or taxes

or expired driver’s license,

or hiring or firing,

doing it or having it done to you, or

roaches or flies or a

broken hook on a

screen, or out of gas

or too much gas,

the sink’s stopped-up, the landlord’s drunk,

the president doesn’t care and the governor’s

crazy.

light switch broken, mattress like a

porcupine;

$105 for a tune-up, carburetor and fuel pump at

sears roebuck;

and the phone bill’s up and the market’s

down

and the toilet chain is

broken,

and the light has burned out -

the hall light, the front light, the back light,

the inner light; it’s

darker than hell

and twice as

expensive.

then there’s always crabs and ingrown toenails

and people who insist they’re

your friends;

there’s always that and worse;

leaky faucet, christ and christmas;

blue salami, 9 day rains,

50 cent avocados

and purple

liverwurst.

or making it

as a waitress at norm’s on the split shift,

or as an emptier of

bedpans,

or as a carwash or a busboy

or a stealer of old lady’s purses

leaving them screaming on the sidewalks

with broken arms at the age of 80.

suddenly

2 red lights in your rear view mirror

and blood in your

underwear;

toothache, and $979 for a bridge

$300 for a gold

tooth,

and china and russia and america, and

long hair and short hair and no

hair, and beards and no

faces, and plenty of zigzag but no

pot, except maybe one to piss in

and the other one around your

gut.

with each broken shoelace

out of one hundred broken shoelaces,

one man, one woman, one

thing

enters a

madhouse.

so be careful

when you

bend over.

Unfortunately Albert there’s always something..my advice keep on fighting for a solution and don’t surrender ever, stress makes it worse, take care

[QuiltLady]

Try not to worry too much about it if you aren't in any discomfort. I have gone that long before, even longer actually. Try a glycerin suppository to get things started and maybe half a glass of prune juice. If you aren't a big fan of prunes, try a cup of cooked broccoli with every meal until you go!

[CryptoKid]

Hello. What's your fluid intake?

[diahealth]

nothing at all from the doctors helped me. No feeling of constipation but hadn’t been for weeks. Probioform helped me tremendously along with magnesium oxide which had a bit of potassium in it. Also stomach massage, look on utube. Hope this helps.😊

[Albert7 in reply to diahealth]

Many thanks for your reply. Gives me hope!!