Constipation 😩 (having a moan. Indulge me.)

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the doctor saying no apples thing will be because they produce wind and all ready being "bunged up" you'd get really bad trapped wind pain - maybe try low fodmap foods ? hope you feel better soon
 
A really hot shower aimed at your tummy should help as well, watered down orange juice can help as well
 
Asda Constipation Relief tablets work for me, I think they’re Bisacodyl. I have tried most laxatives under the sun after being fobbed off by Doctors for years with prescription after prescription and after having to have biannual colonoscopies I really can’t stomach ones you have to drink so totally feel your pain with the laxido, it is GASH. That powder has never seen a bloody orange, it’s salty AF.
 
I second dulcolax! As an IBS sufferer apart from the laxatives doctors prescribe, this does the trick for me. It does give me very painful cramps though and your arsehole will feel like it’s on fire once it kicks in because you will have literal liquid shit (sorry tmi) but it does clear you out!! Whenever I’ve had to take it I’ve been scared to eat the next day at work incase I shit myself because you feel so empty afterwards and if you do take it be prepared to spend all night (as in up until early hours of the morning) just sitting on the toilet because every time you try to go back to bed and sleep you wake up again 3 seconds later feeling like you’re going to shit yourself
 
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I was so badly once I was ordered by nhs direct to purchase a home enema kit from the chemist.
It's basically a tube of oil with the longest nozzle you have ever seen
I'm sure it cost me no more than £2 and all you had to was insert it, squeeze and then wait.
I really tested it, without being too graphic, I basically had a wall of poop with no end just sitting there
Within 20 mins it had softened it all up and just had the best and biggest poop EVER!!
Highly recommended
 
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I inadvertently cleared myself out by taking 2 magnesium tablets instead of just 1. They were high dose to begin with but purged my bowels within hours. Alternately as mentioned above Milk of Magnesia, we used to be given that as kids when we were 'bunged' up and it seemed to work
 
Good old fashioned Senokot - take 2 and let it work it’s magic
Just don’t do what I did and think “I’m FAR more bunged up than anyone else has EVER been/it’s been an hour and nothing has happened, I’ll take some more. And then fill yourself up with prunes and every other remedy you’ve found on the internet within a space of 6 hours. Nothing happens any sooner than if you’d just taken the original dose/stuck to one remedy but it’s soooo violent when it does happen that you’ll be reduced to a cramping sweaty mess, lying in the fetal position on the bathroom floor as you’re empty but the contracting continues. Not my finest (several) hour(s)
 
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This happened to my grandmother. One day, she keep taking laxatives, thinking they weren’t working, while she was visiting us, and she wasn’t able to make it to the toilet from the living room without leaving a trail of along the way. She didn’t admit to how many she’d taken for a while though.
 
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I’m totally ashamed to admit that I’m a nurse. If anyone should know better it’s me. Hope your poor nan was ok bless her heart I bet she was mortified
 
I’m totally ashamed to admit that I’m a nurse. If anyone should know better it’s me. Hope your poor nan was ok bless her heart I bet she was mortified
She called my mother, who was at work not far away and she came home to sort it out. It was unfortunate that they had light coloured carpets. She was really embarrassed and ended up showing my mother the packet of laxatives because my mother was concerned that there might have been something really wrong with her to warrant a trip to the hospital. My mother realised that she had just taken far too many. Luckily they had two toilets in their apartment.
 
One Christmas, many years ago when I was about 15, I didn't go for 10 days and was so desperate to go that I took about half a bottle of Syrup of Figs in one hit. Within a couple of hours I was doubled up crying with pain and my mum had to call the doctor out. I'd basically created a battlefield in my own bowels with all the fig syrup and when I did go it was like a tsunami of shit (I know, TMI). I would not recommend that course of action.
 
I've been there too and there are some good yoga moves that help the pain and aid digestion. Google yoga for constipation and give it a go. It's horrible. Hope something helps
 
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Weetabix with the meds should help loads! I know how you feel ended up in a&e once with it it was brought on by an allergic reaction. I was in a hospital I used to work in visiting someone and got sick and they brought me down in a feicin wheelchair