And the fun just won't stop - constipation

So I've been a little constipated lately. I go every day, usually twice a day, but the output is like pebbles and hard to pass.

I drink tons of water, and eat tons of vegetables, as they are one of the few things I can eat.

My LLMD suggested Magnesium Glycinate (Douglas Labs brand). I took one, just one, last night, and I was up half the night feeling very flushed. hot, and nauseous. Still not feeling great. Don't want to do that again.

When I feel bad, I have been getting Myers Cocktails with some kind of added vit B, followed by a push of glutathione, and a shot (IM) of magnesium. I do this at my LLMD's office, so he tailors it to me. I don't react to the shot of magnesium (weird), and usually it softens things up and generally makes me feel better.

Had one last week and made no difference.

Any ideas? I don't know what to do and am afraid to try anything new because it all seems to make me sicker.

My digestion and constipation improved when I started listening to this: /www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt5yEn9KuTY&t=1104s

Worth a try. If nothing else, it'll relax you - but it helps me so much.

MM,

Have high dosage of vitamin C. I like C-Salts with a heavy tablespoon of calm-Mag. Works wonders.

If you are eating bananas, lots of nuts, rice products - cut them out from your diet. Binding.

And of course drink tons of water.

This is something that I have had to deal with my whole life - constipation.

I have found that I MUST use magnesium oxide - it pulls water into the colon much better than other forms of magnesium. I take anywhere from 1,000 - 2,000 mgs twice a day to 'keep things moving' - plus I have to use fiber, as well as keeping other very gentle items on hand (stool softeners, Miralax, Milk of Magnesia), as if I use a laxative, I end up with serious intestinal cramping for days from just one dose - and it always starts off with that really bad nausea.

I would suggest that you start with prunes, or cooked/canned fruit (yep! It works! Although I do have to eat a full can of fruit for it to work). Increase your magnesium slowly - because you are still moving things through your intestines, this should work fairly easily. As I said, I have found magnesium oxide works well, as does Milk of Magnesia. It can still make me nauseous, but it passes as my intestinal cramping slows down.

Beans and broccoli can cause extra gas, so do be careful with foods like that -extra gas can increase intestinal cramping and nausea during this stage of constipation. The stool need to soften and you need to get extra "water" into your intestinal tract to solve this - and be aware that this likely is not a one time event. You may only have to deal with this occasionally, or it may be something you will have to deal with daily for a while.

The danger is that when you remain constipated like this, the pressure inside the intestinal walls builds and builds, creating more risk for diverticulosis to develop. When I had my first colonoscopy, the GI doc said that I had the worst case of diverticulosis for someone my age that he had ever seen. He was in a busy practice in San Diego at the time and had been in practice for many years.

Then I think you might want to try more Vitamin C. At a certain point it will give you loose stools. You may have to go up a lot, but do it gently.

From what I understand you can do magnesium transdermally through the skin with a spray bottle water mix. Xylitol can also be taken this way, but I dont know how much gets absorbed.

Some have found relief with a drop of peppermint oil but I dont know if its lasting.

After the first few cycles of anthelmintics this isnt a problem anymore, but I know these arent appropriate for everyone.

MM,

It sounds to me like you may have leaky gut if you can't eat many foods.

Juicing can be detrimental if that is the case.

I would take mag/vitamin C and then eat lightly cooked and easy to digest vegetables like sweet potato, zucchini, spinach, bok choy and a little quinoa for fiber.