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madog11

madog11

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I get quite badly constipated quite easily so opiates set me off and I tend to get quite a backlog. When I saw my doctor he felt my stomach and said it felt quite full and impacted and gave me lactulose it has made me go everyday but i'm still quite bloated, how can i tell if i'm still backed up or not? How do i feel it?
 
Maybe what he has given you bloats you. I can't take certain things due to bloating. Do you guys have Movicol over there? It's a powder you mix with water and you can have it several times a day if you need to. This will fix you up without a doubt. The ingredients are:- sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, potassium chloride and macrogol ( no idea what that is).
 
Yeah we have got something like that over here. I just wanna know what i need to feel to tell if my colon is still full save me a trip to the docs to find out.
 
Ok, when mine is full I almost feel like I'm pregnant, bloated but really heavy in the stomach, so much so I can't walk very far and I can feel movement. I also feel physically ill and sometimes faint. I have been a lot better since changing my diet to a low GI diet. That's me :)
 
Yea, being a life-long narcotic user due to chronic pain, I can tell you this is a very common problem in the world of chronic pain patients. I'd say that something like 90% of chronic pain patients take "something" to help with out in the bowel area. Personally, I've afraid of taking a laxitive daily because I've heard that as one ages their body "forgets", for lack of a better word, how to produce manageable stools. As in soft enough to pass and the ability to go regularly. BTW, I'm a 53 year old male. Therefore, I take something called Ducolax (in the States) and it's a stool softener. I take them only when I have to and try to avoid taking them on a super regular basis. I really want my body to do the work if at all possible. I really hope you can find an effective stool softener over there and I hope it works for you. In my opinion, that's the way to go. Good Luck!
 
If you're severely constipated, you'll likely feel stomach/back pain from extreme constipation. You'll also find it hard to go for a jog as your gut would start to hurt due to the physical activity.

Have you tried taking a magnesium supplement?
 
Captain.Heroin said:
If you're severely constipated, you'll likely feel stomach/back pain from extreme constipation. You'll also find it hard to go for a jog as your gut would start to hurt due to the physical activity.

Have you tried taking a magnesium supplement?
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I've tried everything, it was a problem long before opiates. Apparently lactulose is good because you can be on it long term without it causing your bowels to weaken which was one of my concerns of being medicated.

I don't really jog anyway as i'm one of those lucky people who doesn't really gain weight no matter what i eat, leaving me kind of unfit. Except when i started this medicine i had not had a bowel movement for a week so the pregnancy look was to be expected. However i've been several times now and still look pregnant (not pregnant btw unless it's imaculate conception).
 
You should really explain this to your doc, he's the best for this kind of advices, we certainly can help a bit but we're no doctors, oh well maybe some of us are but still, the fact he sees you in person is always a + to his diagnosis. It's always best to be honest about your symptoms and feel free to tell him you got information on the net that told you that the best thing for this is ... and then you say what you desire. If you really think its the best way to help yourself.
 
i would go as long as a week with out shitting when on dope.i used to have to wait until i was going into WD' even if i had dope for me to go to the bathroom cause the more i did the longer the wait.it has to be one of the worst pains passing a stool over a week old out of your ass.mine would tear and rip as it came out and was like cement...
 
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