Tramadol - Constipation

[Hear Me Roar]

I'm guessing this is the right place for this,

I have recently been using Tramadol, 150mg-200mg. As I read before and I am now experiencing. I'm getting really bad constipation.

Is there anything I can take before using tramadol, to prevent or lessen the constipation for smoother bowel movements. At the moment I've been using OTC laxatives the next day, but it isn't very pleasant.

 

[Cloroxtastebad]

Drink a decent amount of liquids and pick up some magnesium citrate from the store. 400mg with some food each day should really help. It wont cause unpleasant emergency shits, so you dont have to worry about that.

A fiber supplement can never hurt either.

 

[Hear Me Roar]

It wont cause unpleasant emergency shits, so you dont have to worry about that.

lol made me laugh

Haha cheers man, that's what I don't like about the OTC laxative i'm using at the moment. It doesnt give me emergency shits as you say, but it doesn't leave me much warning either. I'l give the magnesium a try.

 

[Dread calm]

plenty of fibre should be fine, tramadol isn't nearly as constipating as codeine. I can shit pretty much fine on trams.

 

[JackiesBabyy]

Milk of magnesia (magnesium hydroxide, I suppose citrate and oxide work too) has always worked for my opiate constipation, and I get it worse than most others. If that fails, get a fleet enema kit and even a tin-can sized shit will fall out. (Wish I were exaggerating about the tin-can sized.)

 

[Hear Me Roar]

Cheers for the advice Jackies, its not to bad at the moment, I can get it out, just feels like i'm shitting logs. I'l give the milk of magnesia a try.