Question about chronic constipation?
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I’m a 20-year-old, otherwise healthy female but I have had chronic constipation for my whole life. As a child I was given every laxative you can think of by my pediatrician but they all made me feel worse than not being on them. At different points in time I was on mineral oil, miralax, metamucil powder and wafers, milk of magnesia liquid and chewable form, senekot, and I’m sure I’m leaving something out. All of this was treatment from both my pediatrician and a pediatric GI specialist when I was about 7 or 8. Anyway, I have a bowel movement once, sometimes twice a week and it’s always very large, dark, and hard. It’s embarrassing but it’s too large to even be flushed and has to be broken up first. And even then, it still clogs the toilet fairly often. I drink water constantly and I try to eat extra fiber but fiber only makes me gassy and uncomfortable but does not help with the bowel movements at all. I am slightly overweight so I know it’s not a malabsorption issue. My Grandfather had ulcerative colitis and my father has Chrone’s Disease and he had colon cancer. Both the opposite of my symptoms. I’m getting frustrated with this. Does anyone have any advice?
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First of all, I do not think all these over the counter medications and laxatives are doing you any good since you have been taking them chronically. In fact, it sounds to me like they have slowed your system down. If you keep on "pushing" something to perform, it will resist the change if done so in a non-holistic manner.
Second, if you do have a serious medical condition causing this, a doctor – not someone in Yahoo answers — should be consulted. However, if it were me, I would try some other approaches.
Have you eaten Fruit? Vegetables? Brown Rice? Of course artificial fiber will make you gassy! Your body cannot break it down naturally.
Three:, traditional Western medical approaches which test everything as a disease to be cured may not be appropriate for you. Acupuncture, Chinese medicine, other herbal remedies that are natural all should be tried.
push harder