constipation

i have had the same problem and my GI dr last week told me that i have a lazy sigmoid (last year i had to go to emergency for a poo extraction cuz i was constipated for almost 2 weeks). ducosate sodium, stool softners, help right away now so it doesnt have to get that far.

ask you dr. maybe you need a fleet to unblock from the bottom end.

good luck :(

oh man i understand! i look 3 months pregnant when i dont poo! but in my case, its not my crohn's thats doing this but IBS. fml.

and btw: after my extraction, i pood like a champ of all champs :P bizarro indeed!

haha, how the would they suck it out and if thats the case, im talking to my GI dr next week! LOL.

*Even tho you abbreviated, please be careful with your language, this is a family forum and have members as young as 13.  Thanks*

Post Edited By Moderator (Nanners) : 9/17/2011 6:37:19 PM (GMT-6)

picosalax makes me gag so much! i can never take it again.. too many bad memories of trying to chug in hopes of the poo. 3 weeks ago, i took 2 sachets and nothing moved. went to emergency the next day, and 8 hrs later (the glories of quebecois health care) i was told to go home and take some stool softeners and tylenol. i was so cramped from the pain and thankfully the next day i sat in the bathroom all day. sweet relief lolol.

well, keep an eye on it for sure! dont wait tooo long before finding a solution! and i hope you empty yourself out so you can be comfy in jeans again!

Four days of 2 Dulcolax a day, 2 days of 4 Dulcolax a day and its all still just sitting there in the rectum and refusing to come out. *sigh*

After surgery on an a abscess wound, my col/rectal surgeon said that I had a lot of loose stool they sucked out of me.

Can't offer any help on constipation but best of luck!

Okay, third day of 4 Dulcolax a day. Time to call the gastro in the AM. Not enthused about this as I anticipate this is a fecal impaction and is going to require a manual extraction. Will probably be told to go to ER - but since Monday is my gastro's day in the office I am hoping ......

:( my thoughts are with you

Maggiem, that's what I kept taking too, Dulcolax is a popular and common stool softener most recommended by gastros. *sigh* It may be time to add a mild bowel stimulant. Or even an enema. DO NOT wait until you actually get an impaction. (Don't do as I do, do as I say??? *weak smile*)

Diarrhea is almost never a problem for me. I have always tended to constipation, even before Crohn's. My "normal" is a BM every 3-4 days. Oddly enough, we discovered quite by accident that a one a day vitamin w/iron (the iron being the key ingredient) will keep me moving comfortably and faithfully once a day.  Very much unlike "normal" people who tend to get constipated from iron.

However, a couple of months ago when I went in to Rite Aid to buy a bottle it turns out they no longer make that particular multi-vitamin supplement. All the others, every brand, had either vitamin K or calcium. Neither of which I can take. *sigh* I've looked elsewhere for a multi-vitamin w/iron that doesn't have vitamin K or calcium in it and haven't found one yet. *sigh*

What I did NOT have enough sense to do was to buy just an iron supplement. All I need is 18 mg a day!!! I just realized this late last week and hadn't gotten off my duff and gone shopping for some.

Now, BEFORE you other "constipators" consider an iron supplement KEEP IN MIND that iron tends to BIND "normal" people. I only know of one other person who has the same response that I do to iron.

And my doctor and I discovered my unique response to iron quite by accident. My iron or B12 or something was just below or at low normal range so he suggested a good OTC one a day vitamin w/iron. I noticed almost immediately I was "going" once a day, faithfully!!! It was such an unusual phenomenum for me I even mentioned it to him.

Then I remembered: as a teenager our family doctor at the time put me on an iron supplement and that was the first time I ever remember going faithfully once a day. Eventually, teens being teens, I quit taking the iron and drifted back to my "normal" every 3-4 days routine up until about 10 years ago now when my current doctor made the suggestion of the one a day w/iron.

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I sure feel unloved and unwanted. Gastro's office says go to ER for manual extraction if enema doesn't work. *sob* *sigh*

Im so sorry you feel so terrible. I am so very grateful to this forum knowing there are others out there who understand :( as unfortunate as that is..

Im afraid my picolax has done nothing, looks like ill be making another call to see what is suggested :(
Good luck with your enema my fingers are crossed for you

go poo goooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Ain't it a corker what we can find some amusement from???

A second hot bath this evening and managed to pass a bit more w/o popping a lung or my brain thru the top of my skull. *sigh*

There's still more but am sure it will all get moved thru w/some more perseverence. The hot baths really help to calm down the muscle spasms and soothe the bruised muscles.

I'm probably going to get a bout of relux outta this deal but ... one thing at a time. I have some Zofran and some Prilosec on hand if and when needed. Whatever, certainly beats a manual extraction I'm sure!!!!! Just the mention of manual extraction is probably what got things going for me - scared the poop outta me! Ya think??

Thanks all for sharing your sympathy and my best wishes to all those who have gone thru or are going thru or will go thru this.

Yeah, I think my "bottom muscles" aren't quite ready for a massage just yet.

Nothing more has moved thru despite I am one heck of a lot more comfortable.

Get a load of this! Yesterday morning I weighed in a 108.4 lbs. This morning I weighed in at 105.6 lbs. Same pajamas on, no sox, no slippers, no robe either day.

What the heck, I"m gonna pop another 4 Dulcolax today just for the "fun" of it. And I found a straight iron supplement I'm gonna start too. 27 mg of ferrous gluconate vs the 18 mg of ferrous fumarate I was taking in the one a day multi-vitamin but the closest I could find. The one a day 18 mg was 100% of the recomended daily dose of iron and this 27 mg is $150% of the recommended daily dose.

Thanks for all the good wishes and bearing w/me thru all this. Its appreciated but I can't say its been fun. Sorry 'bout that. (((hugs))) to you all.