Try the forum on GERD. Those people have more experience with these meds....
In my experience Miralax is very good in the long run. After you get this crisis settled try to take a dose every morning in your coffee. It softens the stool but doesn't create havoc. Use 1/2 dose...
I am already "retired". Then I had this bowel problem. One thing that helps is a little mat on which I lie or sit and do a yoga-like slow exercise. I made it up to suit myself. I just move my arms...
I've been on other threads about bowels, but I think you people can help. I just read the above, good ideas. What is cotazyme? If it helps digest fat, its what I need. Also I was afraid to mention...
Yes, no tumor, I wondered, too, but no tumor in my case. This disappearing folding over did a huge amount of damage by intermittant blockage over the years. The shape is caused by two things, first...
I think mine was like this: I had a fold about 1-2 inches up into the rectum, that caused a flat, ribbon when the stool was soft. then the anus rounds out the edges so there is a "groove", but it...
For years every doctor would say to do a colonoscopy and then say the bowel looked normal. What they never did was laparoscopy and put a light on the OUTER SURFACE of the bowel. After ten years of...
Are you getting some diagnosis? This sounds like you need barium enema (not as difficult as colonoscopy, no anesthesia). This seems like you need evaluation soon. Once you get looked at then...
I took miralax for 7 years and it saved my life and I believe it caused no harm. Yes, a lot of unknowns, but I suspect millions of people take the stuff. All it does is hold water back so it cannot...
Wow, i've heard of porphyria, it has never entered the picture before. This is almost as far out as when I realized my "brain fog" was caused by lactose intolerance and the gut bacteria were making...
First, I recommend use lactose-free milk. It only took 3 days to improve for me. But other things are the main problem. Look into adhesions. If your bowel is stuck together in places it causes...
Everyone please beg your doctor to go in with a light and look at the outside surfaces of the bowel. If the bowel has stuck-together in places it is adhesions and the bowel cant move around, stretch,...
First, stop drinking regular milk, use lactose-free, if it is lactose intolerance you will be better in 3 days. Next suspect adhesions, not to be seen on x-ray, colonoscopy or cat scan. The bowels...
You probably have adhesions, that means parts of your bowel are stuck together. The pain occurs when these parts can't move around and slide around as the stool goes thru. Adhesions are very hard to...
Everyone with IBS pain should try to see how much adhesions they have. When the bowel is stuck together and tries to move the stool along then there is pulling and distention and pain. Adhesions...
If your bowel is overstretched the vagus nerve says "help is needed" but it doesn't identify the whereabouts of the originating pain. In my case a look at the outside of the bowel, not the inside....
Thanks, you are really who I needed. The Divorce was the best thing I've done to get better, next was the operation, now I have to get this diet more comfortable, yes, I have lots of animals and yes...
I just wrote a reply and pushed the wrong button and it's gone. Basically I said I, too, was told to eat what I want. I was in a "brain fog" due to 5 hours anesthesia, pain meds and s/p major insult...
Your post is very helpful, I use sudafed for severe nasal congestion which gives me a bad earache. I'm thrilled that this might help for the diarrhea. I did suspect that my d. might be a lifetime...
Yes, I have the cholestyramine, however, I am trying to avoid it because it has so many side effects and I gag on it, etc. I am taking a heart med and it will nullify that if I take them too close...
I recently had my entire large bowel removed with some parts of my small bowel. No ostomy. Thanks to a very skilled and expert surgeon. However, this is no cakewalk. I was left with up to 2 years of...
Please don't wait two weeks. Insist. Look up C. diff. Learn learn learn, This is major. Arm yourself with knowledge and then don't allow anyone to say no....
not many clues or history here, you are likely in for a colonoscopy or check out your gall bladder. As time goes on you will be able to pinpoint the problem. Good luck....
Lactose intolerance: I now think anyone with any bowel problem should stop lactose intake. It's easy, just drink lactose-free milk. It doesn't matter if you get a little lactose in cheese or cream....
Dear That Girl: even when I was 20 I had an insight that I would die due to my bowel problem. I functioned for years minimally, no diagnosis, wish I had taken glycolax all those years. At 50 I...
I, too, had redundant bowel and all that you say in your post was true for me. Finally also "colonic inertia". You seem to be stopped up. I got along for years with a dose of glycolax in my coffee...