r/ConstipationAdvice

So i went to the doctor Monday and was told i had chronic constipation and needed a clean out with hard laxatives and then to get regular again i needed to use mirafast chews 3x a week starting next Monday, i did the clean out Tuesday and had a decent bowl movement thursday but i haven’t pooped since thursday and it’s now saturday 6pm. i was wondering if i should just hold out till monday or take a mirafast now?

to answer the guide just incase even tho i dont think it’s relevant to the post:
i have the urge to go but cant
currently just constipation
no nausea etc
started 3 months ago
no medications
no SA

I have been trying everything possible for the past 3 years to fix it, the only 2 things that gave me any ounce of relief (i started using both of these on the same day 4 months ago and i will add a screenshot of my progress to prove it) is using a low dose of weed, around .25gs-.5gs of ground flower a day, for me this is a low dose spread out properly and i drink 8-12oz of home brewed coffee, these 2 things mitigated my deadly smelling farts and made my farts go from 50 plus times a day to less than 10 and the smell went down to around 5% of smelling potentcy lmfaooo i was farting so bad even i had to leave the room... well no longer and all i did waa smoke weed and drink coffee, butttt this is hwere the squatting to poop comes in... i was still experiencing my SIBO all be it it was mostly away for the last 4 months, so i still has these 20 issues i sloved below, just by simply squaating to poop,

20 plus chnages in 7 days from squatting to poop. I have just been using 2 dudes wipes for the past 7 days, i lay them flat on the ground, squat over it and poop, pick it up and toss it in the toilet... yes its nasty but i am going to the store today and gonna think of something better.. lmao 🤷🤦my poops literally just fall out of me... now the bacteria is staying in colon and the locking mechanisms are wokring, I have been full deep squatting down to poop for the past 7 days and I am never using a 19th century toilet ever again, my whole pelvic floor has completely chnaged in 7 days...

My Changes.......

No Pain: Every single painful symptom I've ever had my entire life is completely gone.

Hemorrhoids Gone: My internal and external hemorrhoids cleared up completely in 7 days.

Bleeding Stopped: The rectal bleeding I experienced twice a year since age 16 has stopped. (This one is a future one to keep an eye on, but my anal fissures and hemmorhoids are gone so im assuming the bright red blood will also go away)

Under 30 Seconds: My bathroom trips dropped from 3–10 minutes down to less than 30 seconds.

7-Day Streak: I've hit 7 good days in a row, breaking my lifetime limit of never having more than 3 good days in a row.

Complete Emptying: The constant feeling of incomplete emptying is completely gone.

Uniform Stool: My poops come all the way out in one uniform, consistent-looking stool.

No Forced Urination: I no longer have to pee every single time I poop, because I am no longer forcing bladder pressure through straining.

Stomach Acidity Better: The acid and burning in my stomach feel significantly better because the internal backpressure on my upper digestive tract is gone.

Extreme Flatulence Gone: My chronic, severe gas problems have completely vanished.

Foul Odor Gone: My deathly smelling farts are completely gone because stool is no longer rotting and stagnating inside my colon.

SIBO Cleared: My SIBO symptoms and diarrhea have completely stopped because my digestive tract is no longer backing up.

Relaxed Scrotum: My scrotum feels significantly more relaxed and no longer clenches from straining.

Abdominal Healing: The chronic pain I felt my entire life when rubbing my lower stomach is gone.

Prostate Relief: The deep pressure and irritation in my prostate have completely cleared up.

Urinary Tract Relief: The constant irritation in my urinary tract has completely stopped.

Bladder Relief: My bladder no longer feels crowded, stressed, or irritated.

Normal Erections: I no longer get uncontrollable morning erections that lock up for over an hour.

More Flexible: My overall body flexibility has increased from opening up my hips and lower body daily.

Mentally Healthier: I feel completely renewed mentally, like a massive physical barrier has been permanently lifted from my life.

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So I haven't passed a solid stool in about 5 days. Day 2 I felt really bloated and nauseous. That night I was throwing up all the food I ate. Day 3 I was so nauseous I couldn't even drive to go to work. Took some ducolax but that just made me pass some water, made my stomach hurt. Day 4 I took an enema, and I felt an instant relief. I passed an entire waterfall out of my colon and felt great.

Day 5, and I'm still a bit concerned.

Nothing solid has passed yet, I'm still pooping in squirts like I'm constipated. That, and I'm still slightly swimmy headed. I have my appetite back, and most of my strength, I feel great, but I think I'm still constipated! Any advice?

I have had a bad case of hemorrhoids before that the doctor had to put a band on it. I was sedated during the procedure. Before that, pooping was painful and sometimes had blood. Ever since then, I've been pooping very well and become more conscious with my poop health.

Apparently my diet was low in fiber and I've learned more about macronutrients. So I've been eating more fruits and vegetables (although still lacking and working on it) and occassionally take fiber supplements. Soaked chia seeds are just magical.

All these fiber rich food just make my popping experience SO INCREDIBLE!!!!! its fat but soft, no longer rough. I poop a lot in one go. its just so magical IDK. Its the best part of my day and Im proud if the quality of the poop is good. I refer to the bristol chart. lol

Add a squatty potty, damn bro, it just goes out in less than a minute!

how about you guys? how's your pooping experience and what do you guys do to keep your poop quality high?

Silicon intolerance may be the cause of your ibs too and it's in EVERYTHING! Silicon is a anticaking agent and preservative commonly added to salt. Thus the 'salt' ingredient in your food label may be trigger.

long time ago I got diagnosed with IBS after chronically vomiting and stomach pain and digestive problems. For years and years this never got resolved. And like probably many of you experienced, all the doctors and gastroenterologist and allergists WERE OF ZERO HELP and just an expense of waste of time. They never found any root cause and would tell me to go low fodmap with some over the counter supplements that didn't help. Or give me yet another wrong diagnosis - celiacs, asthma, h pylori, a lot of "we don't know", "your blood work is fine except for high inflammation markers", MRIs, ultrasounds, etc... I ended up avoiding 80-90 percent of foods, when I wasn't on a complete carnivore diet.

Well years and years later, I was wearing bras made of silicon and man did they itch like crazy. Then in back of ingredients label, I started noticing certain supplements that made me vomit or feel ill all day had 'silica' in it. Then I was salting my steak with my roommates salt. First and only time I've ever vomit ed up steak after habimg that as my main/usual meal everyday for 3ish years. And guess what an ingredient is in that salt? Calcium silicate!!!!!

So turns out MOST salts put on our foods is salt with anticaking agents in it, MOST COMMONLY Calcium silicat AND Silicon dioxidE (silica). Which I'm highly allergic to. Thus all the baked goods, pizzas, microwave meals, peanuts, cashews, cheeses, canned items, fish etc etc... always had added salt to them. The ingredients label don't say that the salt had the silicon caking agents in it, only purely sold salt does. That's why I could never figure it out. Now anything with the word 'salt' on it unless the product specifically states they use a noncaking agent type of salt on their website, I avoid. So far no longer in pain from eating foods that according to my blood tests I want supposed to be allergic to.

The reason id only react to 'fodmap' foods though is because my intestines would be inflamed from the silicon for days and day. So thus couldn't digest difficult high-digestive intensity foods like fodmaps for the next few days. Nonfodmap foods got broken down in my stomach and thus wouldn't cause issues, it was only when my small intestines had to be used and that I couldn't handle.

So removing silicon and added salts from ones diet and any other food based allergens would take a few days before reintroducing fodmaps and seeing if one could handle it. Like I also had an allergy to nickel. So eating a high nickel food would cause issues for the next few days too.

Has anyone figured this out?

I’m 32 years old and for most of all my twenties I’ve been very healthy and never had “constipation” issues. My abdomen always felt firm, lean and relaxed. Moment I turn 30 everything just seemed to go downhill and I changed nothing. I don’t drink alcohol. I don’t smoke or vape. All I drink is mainly water expect for maybe I’ll get a sweetener that I can go and change the flavor of my water to help reduce hunger when I would try and cut body fat for weight training.

I knew I had a slight increased risk for celiac disease so I thought maybe I’m starting to develop this condition and so I set up and appointment with a GI doc who did the celiac panel and it all came back negative. We also did a CT scan which showed “moderate” stool. He concluded that I suffer from constipation and this is the cause for my lower abdomen always protruding out and my abdominal tightness.

For a while now all I’ve been dealing with is chronically stiff or bloated abdomen. It’s not painful but it looks very depressing and the best way to explain it is when you feel very bloated like you have to fart and when you do you feel relief in your abdomen like it’s relaxing and not fighting against gravity but mine doesn’t do that anymore. I’m chronically bloated and my stomach never feels relaxed. Even if I eat or I don’t eat I always feel full like I’ve eaten already. I don’t have any medical history and my blood work actually shows me as a healthy individual but I don’t feel it.

I’ve tried daily kiwis, daily MiraLAX, daily husk, triple Swanson magnesium supplement, vitamin D3, multivitamin, fish oil, CoQ10. No relief at all. I eat mainly just chicken breast, green peas, sweet potato’s and rice. For my daily smoothie I do chia seeds, husk, frozen blueberries, kiwi, 1 scoop protein powder, 0% Fage Greek yogurt and unsweetened almond milk.

I typically have one bowel movement every morning but I feel relief for maybe 30 seconds and then it all goes away and then my abdomen just feels bloated all day and I’m constantly trying to massage it and push in on it with no help.

I really don’t know what else to do because it literally feels like I’ll never feel the same again and it will just continue to get worse. All I do is fart all day with no relief. I’m always swaying my body back and forth looking like I have Tourette’s. It’s really annoying.

What has anyone done? Is this just something that will never get better?

Hi all (30F) I’ve always struggled with constipation, but have been so regular the past few months after implementing some psyllium husk in the mornings.

I think I’m getting sick, I missed my psyllium husk a couple days, and traveled and not enough water - short of the long, I’ve been majorly constipated for about 6 days. Called the doc yesterday, and she basically told me to do a mini colonoscopy prep type cleanse. 3 dulcolax tablets around 2 pm, followed by slamming MiraLAX and Gatorade starting 4 pm through the evening. Only drank a TON of clear broth and water.

Nothing happened till this morning around 10 am - had diarrhea and have had it a couple times. But definitely no where near the amount I should be “going…” Sill bloated, still uncomfy, still slightly concerned.

Called the doc again and the nurse said after I’m cleared out, we can start small amounts of psyllium husk and MiraLAX to maintain regularity, but don’t take psyllium husk while I’m constipated and I totally understand why. She said to stay on course with the MiraLAX and maybe take another stimulant laxative this evening if I’m not having any cramping.

At this point I’m going to take MiraLAX again, and instead of dulcolax was thinking Smooth Move tea? I have some and I’m sure I’ve taken it before, but I’m not sure if it would be easier than a dulcolax (although I don’t know that I felt much from that).

I’ve scanned the subreddit and some people seem to suggest senna when all else fails… what are your thoughts? I’m pretty miserable, it’s after hours at the doc, and I really canNOT pay an emergency room bill :’) thanks!

13 and been struggling with constipation on and off for months.
Since april I’ve had to use Microlax 3 times, and it always works, but I really hate using it because it’s uncomfortable.
Right now I’m traveling and I’m in a camper, so using the bathroom is really difficult.2 days ago I only passed a small amount of hard stool, didn’t feel fully emptied(which isnt very uncommon for me for the last 2weeks) ,also dont have the urge to go, and today I mostly just feel very full and bloated. I can still pass gas, my stomach isn’t that hard, and I don’t have vomiting, but it feels heavy even though I haven’t eaten much. The doctor here gave me an osmotic laxative syrup (Osmolak), but I’m worried because it feels like the hard stool is already low down.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? Did the osmotic laxative end up working, or did you still need something like Microlax? I’m also in a calorie deficit, so I’m wondering if that could be making my constipation worse.
Any advice or similar experiences would really helpppp
thanks

My baby has been holding her poop since she was a 2 months old due to a constipation issue she had when she was 2 months. We’re going to a gastro specialist and he prescribed 1 kid size capful a day of MiraLAX. I had to lower the dose due to her having diarrhea. Her stool is finally a good consistency & she is going #2 at least once a day. My question is, has anyone ever gone through the stool with holding situation before? Did you give your baby a couple ounces of chamomile tea a day to ease the cramping & gas that comes with the MiraLAX?

Ugh I’m so sad. I think I may have to go to the ER but idk. So I threw up twice last night and I tried an enema I think I did it right (I mean how can u mess that up) but that did not help TMI but I can literally feel the stool I think it’s just too big so it literally can’t come out. I just feel so uncomfortable and I feel like crying because i really don’t want to go to the ER but do u think ill have to I messaged my DR but she hasn’t gotten back to me. I really don’t know what to do it hurts so so bad when I try to poop. This has never happened before. I’m just so embarrassed to go to the ER for this. I have the urge to go but I’m honestly scared to keep trying because it just hurts so much

So i went to the doctor yesterday for constipation that i’ve had for 3-4 months and she said it was chronic constipation and i needed to do a clean out with a few laxatives. She didn’t really explain how i should eat immediately after the clean out so i googled and it said bland foods like toast and scrambled eggs for 2 days and then i can gradually start to eat vegetables and light proteins, i can do bland foods but i don’t have money right now so i cant go and buy vegetables and im currently staying with my parents and all they have currently is frozen fried foods and a lot of other unhealthy stuff. They don’t really care about all this so they’re not going to go buy what i need, so what should i do?

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I have had severe constipation for a few years now. I typically have a bowel movement 1-2 times a week. Recently, things have gotten a lot worse. I have tried magnesium citrate, I have increased my fluids, I significantly increased my fibre, I take Metamucil, laxatives, ect. You name it, I’ve likely tried it. The only thing that worked were at home enemas. Although, I recently tried a mineral oil one and it didn’t do anything. My stomach is severely distended and I have severe loud smelly gas all day long. What do you think I could have? I am 29F.

Hello!

I am a 24 y/o female, and I think I might have a hypertonic pelvic floor. I’ve had chronic constipation for several years that has been unresponsive to dietary changes, exercise, and laxatives. However, I was an endurance runner for years as a kid and throughout high school (I don’t run anymore though). I currently strength train 5x/week. I’ve always had tighter hips and glutes, and my hips often make a loud popping sound when I stretch, but they don’t hurt. After doing some digging, I learned that years of running and heavy strength training may be a contributing factor to pelvic floor dysfunction. I don’t have any issues with urinary incontinence or feeling the urge to pee all the time though. I have a gyn appointment in two weeks, so hopefully I can get a referral to a PT! For those of you diagnosed with hypertonic pelvic floor, what were your symptoms? Does anyone have a similar experience to mine? Thanks!

Every time I post there it gets immediately removed no matter what the content of the post is. I'm desperate for help.

Our story starts with my doctor wanting me to do a fiber regimen for existing chronic constipation. It instantly destroyed me. After three days of taking fiber I was so plugged up, it was the worst constipation of my entire life. And it's now been 8 days since then. However this feels different because there is seemingly nothing in my colon/large intestine at all. Usually when I'm constipated I can feel it by pressing on my belly, in this case my whole belly is soft and there is no palpable stool at all. No stool is digitally found in the rectum either. I don't have a true blockage because I am not in severe pain and have my usual pattern of extreme gas (so my guts are constantly moving and I'm farting a ton, but zero stool) but there's SOMETHING wrong that's unusual.

What has been tried:

-Chugging crazy amount of water (results in crazy amounts of peeing and nothing else)

- Watermelon and miralax smoothies

-Two water enemas, held 3x longer than the recommended time.

-One fleet enema

-Bunch of silly stuff like drinking cooking oil, listening to the Brown Note, standing on a vibration plate for 15 minutes, etc.

-And most recently, taking 4 MiraFast chews yesterday. No results at all.

Been avoiding all constipating foods like dairy and bananas. My diet right now is pretty much all fruit because of this, I don't want to eat much. EDIT: What I mean by this is that I am purposely not eating since nothing is coming out and I don't want to pack my body so full of food that it becomes a problem. i still have a VORACIOUS appetite and I actually can't sleep because of how hungry I am right now, but I will only let myself eat after I successfully poop.

I want to do magnesium citrate or something equally nuclear, but I'm concerned that if I turn things too liquid it will just go around the existing stool and not actually fix the constipation. I am seriously desperate for help, none of this has ever happened to me before and I'm scared.

Edit: answers to questions 1-6 from the diagnostic guide.

1. Not really. I have strange anatomy so I don't feel the traditional urge ever, but lately I have not even been experiencing my own personal tells that I need to go.
2. Just constipation, never diarrhea ever.
3. No.
4. Had chronic constipation my entire life. Not this acute though.
5. No.
6. No.

I saw a comment on another post saying they tried a "natural" miralax alternative called Select Balance Move Eeez powder. There's limited reviews on their website but mostly good ones (people took stars away for the taste) but said it worked. I can't find any other info on this. Has anyone else tried this??

TMI, but I really need some advice.

I usually poop every morning without any problems. On Thursday evening, I tried to go, but only a little came out. Then it became really painful, so I stopped. I ate some yogurt and went to bed.

On Friday morning, I took RestoraLAX and then took another dose around 7 PM. I also drank about 1.5–2 L of water throughout the day.

Since then, every time I get the urge to poop, it feels normal for literally a second, like the stool is soft and coming out… and then suddenly it feels like I’m trying to push out a bowling ball. I get a really sharp pain right at the end (around the rectum/anus), and I have to stop because it hurts so much.

There’s no blood, I’m still passing gas, and I can pee normally, but I still can’t have a proper bowel movement.

Has anyone experienced this? Did RestoraLAX eventually work, or did you need something else like a suppository or an enema? At what point should I go to a walk-in clinic?

I’m honestly getting really stressed and just want to poop. 😭

Do you go and have your colon examined every ten years?
It is 11 years since I have let them examined my colon and I need to go now, no bs but the problem with me is that I have phopia against throwing up and I also have phobia against taking in some laxative and the aftermath of that.
I have no problem about the colon examined.
Do you know people who have these phopias about throwing up and laxative?
Have you heard about people who are put to sleep when they are laxative?
I know it is a weird phopia but so are most phopias.
The first one for about 11 years and I had never laxative before and when it started I just freaked out like I do when I throw up.

My husband has IMO ( methane sibo) and is all the time bloated ( UPPER abdomen bloating), having difficulty to breath mostly of the time. We will talk to his doctor about the possibility of one of the pills of the title, as he always feels that his BMs are incomplete. Which one should be the best in his case? If you tried them both, could you share your experience? Thank you in advance!