u/muppetsoupp

Hi, I just wanted to ask for advice/get support on a decision I am making today. I spent all afternoon peeling, cutting and washing carrots yesterday. At the very end I was putting them in a ziploc bag and I dropped it....right on the floor....the opening of the bag touch my dirty sandals (that i use outside too). I panicked. I started sobbing because I worked so hard and I was working through an endometriosis flare up (so much pain). My mom helped me open the side of the bag and pull some of the carrots out to salvage them. I didnt want to throw them all away....but im afraid to eat them. I plan on steaming them too so that may kill some bacteria too. But im afraid when I pulled them out they touched a part of the bag that touched the floor or touched my sandal. Im terrified of getting sick but my mom says I'll be fine. I plan on trying to eat them but I was looking for advice on how to overcome the anxiety. Do I just ignore it? Am I crazy for trying to eat them? Im afraid but my mom says I should eat them even while afraid so my brain can understand. I guess I just want support on my decision to eat them...

So im on birth control 24/7 to stop my periods, and usually when I start bleeding and have bad period pains, I stop the pill to let my period happen and then get back on it. Pretty standard and always painful/dreadful. But, I just recently started having TERRIBLE period symptoms...extremely heightened symptoms but no bleeding. I feel like im DEEP IN MY PERIOD everyday for the past few days. This means crazy cramping and soreness and lots of bowel movements (i have bowel endometriosis). Im in pain and i keep feeling faint like im on my period. I don't know if I should stop my pill and let it happen, or just wait it out. I don't know why but I just feel different....and that scares me. Im scared if I let my period happen I will feel like im dying and regret it terribly. I just feel like something bad is coming. But another part of me feels the actual period won't be so bad. But because im not even bleeding I don't know if I should wait until I do....any advice or similar experiences? I see my gynecologist next week actually so I might hold off until then, but she doesn't really help with my endometriosis....im just at a loss and terribly afraid....especially since im home alone all day. I don't want to be in terrible pain by myself if this turns out to be worse than usual....

I went to the hospital for constipation like a month ago. I got sent home with Miralax after enema failed and manual disimpaction also didnt work. Ive been pooping everyday since but I literally feel awful. I felt better the first week cause I finally was pooping. I decided to stay on miralax and my magnesium citrate plan cause I always struggle with constipation. I started feeling very bad indigestion and gas and cramping and mushy stools (not water/liquid). Ive since gotten off miralax and the pain is gone but even days after my last miralax dose I am having super mushy stool that I need to RUN to the bathroom to evacuate before I poop myself. I have VERY bad tenesmus and muscle spasms in my rectum and abdomen; like involuntary pushing but nothing else comes out. I do a giant mushy pile and some solid poop in the morning, then I have pebbles all afternoon with lots of urgency and tenesmus and feeling faint/light headed. I don't know if i should go to the hospital. My parents say they won't do anything because im pooping everyday. Im terrified and i feel like i have a virus or the flu. Did I mess up my bowels and overstimulate them??? Im so overwhelmed. Don't know what to do. I feel weak and anxious all day and like im gonna have diarrhea....will it just take days for the laxatives to wear off??

I keep feeling the STRONG urge to go, and I get cramps and bubbling/popping in stomach but when I go I just pass gass and tiny little pebbles/slivers of poop. Im doing 1/2 cap of miralax every other day and 2tsp of magnesium citrate at night and I've been doing this since I left the hospital like a month ago for severe constipation. I have been pooping everyday and my first poops of the day is "big", in the sense that its a lot. I poop some solid pieces and a pile of mush tbh. Then all day long I feel like i have to go really badly and it feels like violent diarrhea but nothing happens when I sit or its just gas/tiny pieces. Could this be a blockage? Should I stop the miralax? When I started the miralax I felt better, but now I feel awful all day everyday. Does that mean I don't need it anymore? Just not sure what to do and im contemplating going to the hospital again even though im pooping everyday and having one "good" bm every morning????

I feel like im going crazy from my symptoms and I don't see a new doctor for a whole month. Im on miralax and magnesium citrate powder (Calm) to help with constipation but its a constant up and down, good days and bad days. I wanted to know if anyone has this type of symptom: i keep feeling a strong urge to go and i feel so sick, like im going to have violent diarrhea (imagine food poisoning) and pass out/vomit, but either nothing happens or its just a small amount of poop (pebbles, slivers, or little piles of mush). I keep feeling like something terrible is gonna happen and I feel so sick and nauseous but it goes away after some time or a little but of poop. I don't know what im doing wrong but it scares me so much. I feel like im gonna die or just explode. Does anyone else experience this? Or have any insight on what I should be doing? Its driving me crazy and my anxiety is out of control. Im in a panicked state all day long and im tired

Can anyone tell me about their experience with taking miralax consistently? I got on it after I went to hospital for severe constipation and I've been on it for almost a month. Im doing half a cap every other day plus 2tsp of magnesium citrate at night. Im finally pooping everyday but its a mix of normal stool and like mushy stuff (not watery). I see a new GI in a month so I thought I'd ask here in the meantime. I keep having bubbling and some mildly painful cramps randomly throughout the day and sometimes at night. It feels like I need to have diarrhea but its either nothing or its a normal BM. Does anyone have this experience? I was wondering if taking it every 2 days would be a good idea? Or maybe not because i know it takes a few days to work....im just confused right now and don't have access to a doctor at the moment so any insight would be appreciated.

Does anyone else take calm magnesium citrate powder 2 tsp daily without having any relief? That's my current experience and I was wondering if there's anything similar that might work better? It used to work for me and I like that it doesn't give me any side effects but im so backed up I feel sick. Everywhere online it says citrate powder is most effective laxative but im still badly constipated. I wanted to know if anyone else experience this?

I started chia seeds last month. I was on 3/4 tsp and i started pooping daily and they were torpedo logs (I was so happy!), but then all of a sudden I can't poop anymore!!! I just stopped....and im in a lot of pain and having SO MUCH ANXIETY AND CRYING ALL DAY BECAUSE I FEEL SO HELPESS AND SCARED OF THE PAIN!!! im on 1 tsp of chia seeds and don't see a difference. I was going to go up another 1/4 tsp to see if that helps but im so confused and discouraged. Any advice is appreciated. Additionally I take 2 tsp of calm magnesium citrate powder daily and im still constipated (again, i was doing so well a week ago and now im backed up and having abdominal pain).