4 wks in and VERY sluggish bowels

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  • daniface
    daniface Posts: 338 Member
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    eat a box of quaker cereal cinnimon oatmeal squares you'll be pooping your brains out. you can trust this advice because its happened to me.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
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    Fiber One cereal works for me. The one that looks more like Frosted Flakes...not the sticks and twigs one!


    EEwww! I cant' handle Fiber 1 - Waay too much gas.
  • craft338
    craft338 Posts: 870 Member
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    i've tried everything. sometimes i go 4 days without "going". the only thing that works for me is if i eat prunes every day. :sick:
  • mirenner
    mirenner Posts: 205
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    Peaches... but to be honest with you... you may be doing too much and stress is a main factor for tense bowels... relax
  • chocolateandvodka
    chocolateandvodka Posts: 1,856 Member
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    GoLightly.


    it doesn't work lightly. and i wouldn't recommend taking this at the office.
  • Krull_the_WarriorKing
    Krull_the_WarriorKing Posts: 650 Member
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    2 teaspoons of sea salt in 16 oz of warm water
    Drink fast...will taste disgusting
    .. Wait 1 hour... pull lever
  • mamafrahm
    mamafrahm Posts: 132 Member
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    Busch Lite... whenever I drink it, it definitely cleans me out!
  • risskie
    risskie Posts: 203 Member
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    OK, great ideas - here's answers to a few questions...
    Very few and small eliminations for 4 wks now.
    No to prunes, prune juice, but yes to lots water, flax seed, lots broccoli, fruit and high fiber cereal.

    Thanks for the OTC products. Will look over what is there, looks like there's some good ones.
    Really appreciate the help.
    Christine
  • aflane
    aflane Posts: 625 Member
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    This is a very common ailment for people that have gone on a very low fat diet. If your fat intake drops too low, you don't have enough in your system to push things through. Check your fat levels in your diary, and if necessary, think about increasing your fat intake.

    Please note, I'm not a doctor... I'm just a fellow sufferer.
  • zcoop
    zcoop Posts: 12 Member
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    broccli and add lemon to ur water
  • Enolmaxwell
    Enolmaxwell Posts: 2 Member
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    ex-lax
  • _Timmeh_
    _Timmeh_ Posts: 2,096 Member
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    Over the counter product called Magnesium Citrate.
    Wikipedia link about it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_citrate
  • Ruby11222
    Ruby11222 Posts: 114
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    I would add 250mls of Prune juice daily and eat raw spinach, broccoli.

    If that didn't work, Coloxyl. Sometimes when you haven't gone for ages you need something to get it all going again, then maintain diet changes.
  • kimbk1
    kimbk1 Posts: 38 Member
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    Miralax is the greatest. It is very gentle but works great.
  • Moneicalynn
    Moneicalynn Posts: 136 Member
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    my dr has told me to use magnisium citrate & miralax ....drink one bottle of mag.citrate per day every other day and drink miralax 1-2 times per day.... you might have to take it for a few days depending on how backed up u are....works for most people he says
  • lmvandruska
    lmvandruska Posts: 3
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    Go see your doctor! This is not something to be careless with.

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