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Posted 4/26/2009 9:57 PM (GMT 0)
Pamela,
You can get lemon flavored and orange flavored prunes for a change of pace. Also, I've dipped the regular ones in chocolate for a sweet treat. Chocolate covered prunes are dangerous, don't make more than you should eat at one sitting!

If you are increasing your fiber intake, go slow and make sure to increase your liquids.

Magnesium helps a lot, plus it sometimes helps with pain and muscles cramps. Milk of Magnesia is just an expensive form of magnesium. You can get much cheaper if you get plain old magnesium. It comes in various forms (oxide, citrate, chelate, malate) so you should do a little research to see which one is best for you. If you decide to try it, talk to your pharmacist first just to make sure it doesn't interfere with any of your meds.

Be careful with the Senekot type laxatives. My husband's GI put him on Senekot for about a month before his colonoscopy. She showed us pictures of how the Senekot had already affected his colon in that short amount of time. Regular use of certain types of laxatives make it so you can't go normally on your own. Talk to your doc about it.

Skeye, you can get aloe juice in most health food stores. They even make it flavored, not that aloe tastes bad.

Again, talk to your doc or pharmacist if you are trying anything that isn't food. You don't need any more problems.
Posted 4/26/2009 10:06 PM (GMT 0)
"Be careful with the Senekot type laxatives. My husband's GI
put him on Senekot for about a month before his colonoscopy.
She showed us pictures of how the Senekot had already affected
his colon in that short amount of time. Regular use of certain types
of laxatives make it so you can't go normally on your own. Talk to
your doc about it." Dagger

Omg, Dagger. I wish I'd known that before. I always kinda
bragged that I could take Opiods without ANY problems.
The Senokot-S thing has been going on for years - maybe 3
years.

I was going to go to a gastroenterologist after our June One
move. Now it seems like I'll call my new primary care doctor
and have her set up an appointment with the gastroenterologist
sooner. Thank you. (I guess)

Ooooooooooohh darn. Just what I need: One more problem
comin' my way.

Pamela
Posted 4/27/2009 1:33 AM (GMT 0)
Pamela,
Don't stress about it, you're probably fine!
Posted 4/27/2009 4:59 AM (GMT 0)
Well since everyone else has put their two cents worth in here, I thought I'd add mine. I'm hypoglycemic along with severe osteoarthritis, severe complex sleep apnea and a few other things. I have always eaten a lot of protein to control the hypoglycemia and taken the pain meds for the OA. I had a Doctor put me on 250 - 500 mg of magnesium a day. As a secondary result, it helped the constipation along with my morning bowl of oatmeal. Has anyone ever gone shopping for a plunger on vacation??? I don't believe I said that. LOL
Posted 4/27/2009 5:12 AM (GMT 0)
Hey Seajay Welcome to the Chronic Pain forum, you definitely need to start a new thread and introduce your self to everyone here at this CP forum! Just to get you started I want to say to everyone that Seajay is one of my Sleep Apnea buddies over on the sleep apnea support forum. So Seajay start a new thread so everyone can give you a proper welcome!

White Beard
Posted 4/27/2009 9:30 AM (GMT 0)

There was a fruit paste thing I found a few years back, all natural stuff in it and it ended up like apple butter so you put it on toast in the mornings. It kept well in the freezer so when you made it you could make a lot and have it ready for months.

I will try to dig it up and post it here as If I recall it worked good and was inexpensive and easy to make a batch. Didnt interfere with any meds and what. I will look and get back to  you.

Sorry the miralax didnt work out for you. Just goes to show what works for some doesnt do it for others.There's that merry-go-round of life again. LOL

Waiting for the picnic!

Posted 5/20/2009 12:22 AM (GMT 0)
I would love that recipe for the fruit paste for constipation..
Posted 5/20/2009 1:07 AM (GMT 0)
Don't know the fruit paste recipe but my doctor just put my son on Pelligrino Magnesia. Obviously an Italian magnesium mixture it has a lemony taste and is working wonderfully. He doesn't mind drinking it so it can't be too bad.

Posted 5/20/2009 1:17 AM (GMT 0)
Pam,

Colace is expensive. I found the best deal (around here) is at CVS. Their stool softener is virtually identical to Colace, same docusate sodium. The 100 mg. gelcaps are available in a bottle of 400 for around $15, sometimes on sale cheaper. It is also available with a "stimulant" which sort of turbo-charges it! Great product and reasonable price for all of us on long-term meds that constipate.

I found that 100 mg. of docusate sodium for every 10 mg. of Oxycodone (either straight or as Percocet) is about right (for me). Of course, diet and exercise also have a lot to do with it.

No need to feel awkward about these things. We're all in the same outhouse.

Modelmaker
Posted 5/20/2009 7:55 PM (GMT 0)
A bowl of watermelon as an evening snack, along with 2 or 3 stool softeners usually does the trick.

Posted 5/21/2009 2:52 PM (GMT 0)

Bonjour Pamela,

in case we haven't been introduced, I am Dany (frenchdude) from Montréal, Canada.

I remember you the most as I used to browse this site, just perusing the posts without ever having the guts to register. For some reason I remember your nickname (neckpain). It would be irrelevent to ask you what you suffer from, however, what I don't know is how it happened. As for me, 3 disc herniations did it. Probably at the gym where I used to train. Needless to say it's all history now.

As for your problem, I personally was on all sort of opioids including Methadone which is, in my opinion, the most constipation-inducing drug as of yet. And after a couple weeks of severe constipation, I was given ''PMS Docusate Sodium 100 mg'' to take daily at bed time.

You might have to Google it as there may be another name for that in the U.S. But believe you me, if this does not work, I don't know what will. It worked miracles for me where everything else had failed.

Good luck.

Frenchdude

Posted 5/21/2009 3:42 PM (GMT 0)
Darn!

And here I've been getting along without the watermelon portion added in.

I like your recipe *much* better than my 'getting by' recipe. Unfortunately, my wife already knows that my recipe works.
Posted 7/1/2009 1:26 AM (GMT 0)

Oh , what fun (NOT) been there , done that a lot. These meds do that to you . My Dr gave me gyrolax(persciption Miralax I think) 2x day and he also has me on Amitiza 2x day. So far it is working I also eat a lot of prunes. The juice didn't work. Tell your Dr and ask him if he can perscribe something for you. I hope this helps you . Being inpacted is horriable, plus your lower back hurts even more because of the pressure placed on it. I am worried when I get older they will have to put a bag in ,since I had a Dr a few years ago suggest that I get one ( no, thank you) but our bodies will become dependent on the laxitives as well as the pain meds and other meds we are on . It is a never ending cycle. But if the F.D.A cares and reads these in a few years they will have a pain drug free of any of these side effects. Lets hope. Oh, how I dream. (Funny when I was younger I used to dream about Richard Gere, now I dream about  what can help me move my bowls.) Sad

Posted 7/11/2009 10:56 PM (GMT 0)

I know exactly what you are going through. I had Mylegram on Monday. Had to lay on my back allday and night .I drunk about 70 0z. of liquids to get the dye out. Then on Tuesday, I still laid around because I felt so bad. Then on Wednesday, I realized I had not had a BM in a few days. and I was cramping. I sat on commode for at least an hour and I strained so much and cried and screamed and prayed... when they finally moved, I felt like I had given birth to a baby cow!!!!!!!!!!!

 Thishas happened to me several times due to the pain meds. I was taking Colace on a regular basis to prevent this, but it got so expensive, I quit.  Then my DB told me to get Miralax but I can't remember to take it until it's too late, and when it gets ready to move, Katie bar the doors, because they will move and I strain my guts out.

I will probably die one day sitting on the pot from bursting a blood bessel or something.

Sorryfor the grossness!

Posted 7/11/2009 11:03 PM (GMT 0)
Sorry if someone has already said this, but i didnt see it but i did want to let everyone know about this stuff cuz it has really helped me, and i kno a lot of us hav this prob cuz of pain meds... but i use benefiber... and it really helps! u can put it in anything except carbonated things, and u cant taste it and it doesnt thicken drinks or anything! ive even put it in water and u cant tell a bit! its been a savior for me and its better than another pill, and i hav some allergies to fruits, so hopefully some of u will try it!
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