Posted 10/21/2015 12:13 AM (GMT 0)
Welcome to the forum.
A year and a half should be enough time to get things working properly, although if you still can't burp, which is sometimes normal, you may have excess gas that has to go through the whole system.
Are you taking any medicine that slows the digestive tract? I'm on 3, so I have to add quite a lot of fiber and Miralax daily forever. You're right that a laxative isn't a good idea that often, but Miralax isn't a chemical laxative that gets into the blood stream. It's OK to take things that just work in the intestine.
I'd stay away from herbal remedies and anything drastic. Eating normal vegetables should be helpful.
Of course I'm no doctor, and you really should run this sort of question by one. All I can say is from my experience.