I’ve been a PN patient for 14 years and I suffered from severe constipation for years due to the oxy I’m prescribed to take daily. I’ve tried everything, Senna, stool softeners, fiber, etc. The severe constipation made life almost intolerable because I could only go if I took sennakot and was becoming immune to it the longer I was on it, so I’d have to keep taking more and more.
Then Mirilax went OTC - it was life changing for me. I started taking 2 doses of Mirilax daily until I was able to go without the aid of senna, then went down to 1 dose daily of Mirilax. Now I go normally everyday with no problems at all!
I stopped the Sennekot, but too late unfortunately, because years of using it has caused the lining of my colon to darken. So going forward I’ll have to get colonoscopies twice as often as a normal person since they can’t see polyps well due to the darkening caused by senna use. It’s puts me at higher risk of colon cancer.
A warning - be careful with fiber that bulks your stool! For every mg of fiber you take you have to drink a certain amount of water or it can cause your constipation to worsen.