Anonymous wrote:Eat two fig newtons a day until you're back to normal. Never more than two.

Lol. Please. I cat these like cookies

Wait. They ARE cookies.

Who eats just two?

Omg, 00:03, hilarious!

Over the counter suppositories (clear jell objects that look like bullets - available pretty much everywhere). Gets the job done quickly (minutes), but can become addictive if you use too often. Longer term, Miralax and Metamucil work well.

Anonymous wrote:Miralax.

If you're really backed up, it won't make you suddenly have some sort of awful urgent BM or sit on the toilet for half a day. It just helps move things along and softens everything up.

Could instead (or also!) take stool softeners, like Colace.

Fiber supplement (Metamucil is great) to help getting back to regularity. I prefer it to Benefiber, as the latter tends to make runnier stool, while Metamucil bulks and softens.

Source: May or may not have rushed to the doctor fearing appendicitis once; most embarrassing visit ever.

Good luck to you!

Can I hijack real quick to tell a story? When I was in college I was on the cheer squad (this is relevant) and a teammate was having horrible pain, was sweating, crying and basically saying she was going to die. So half way through practice our coach says to take her to the ER that she thought it was appendicitis. So all 12 of us go and have our university colors and letters all over our practice gear and being a slow afternoon we all eventually ended up back in the ER with her. She was moaning horribly and making such a fuss. Among all the tests they were doing they did a pelvic exam, complete with the thumb up the butt. So we are all waiting outside the curtain and we hear this tremendous fart (seriously it echoed all over the ER) and our teammate practically screaming "oh no oh no oh no" as she pooped everywhere. Come to find out she hadn't gone in about two weeks and she failed to mention that to anyone.

Flash forward SEVEN years and I get in a car accident and I'm being stitched up. I just happened to be wearing an old college shirt and get an earful from the nurse, much to the delight of the intern stitching me up, about the legendary story about the cheer squad from my school. By then the story had evolved to involve anal sex and the squad was all "on something". Haha.

Anyway I hope your constipation clears up. If not apparently a thumb up the butt works too.

Eat two fig newtons a day until you're back to normal. Never more than two.

Miralax.

If you're really backed up, it won't make you suddenly have some sort of awful urgent BM or sit on the toilet for half a day. It just helps move things along and softens everything up.

Could instead (or also!) take stool softeners, like Colace.

Fiber supplement (Metamucil is great) to help getting back to regularity. I prefer it to Benefiber, as the latter tends to make runnier stool, while Metamucil bulks and softens.

Source: May or may not have rushed to the doctor fearing appendicitis once; most embarrassing visit ever.

Good luck to you!

Pear juice. Worked for my toddlers! Works for me!

Enema, over the counter.

Dunkin Donuts French Vanilla iced coffee. Get the large size.

Enema

Anonymous wrote:Tomorrow will be day 4 without a movement. I am normally a 2-3x a day person, so this is awful. I need something to start working again.

It happens often when I go away from home, but this is pretty bad.

Nothing in my habits have changed. Drink plenty of water. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables; Exercising daily. But nothing is happening.

Please help me go!

Ideally, without taking something to make me sit on the toilet half the day!

Eat two prunes. Drink 8 ounces of the hottest water you can stand. Repeat water every two hours (if needed you likely won't) repeat prunes after 12 hours (again you likely won't)

+1 more than recommended serving of magnesium, such as the brand natural calm. Can be bought at health food stores. Check the website. Also some pharmacies

Magnesium!

Prunes? Walk a ton, it works for my dogs

Tomorrow will be day 4 without a movement. I am normally a 2-3x a day person, so this is awful. I need something to start working again.

It happens often when I go away from home, but this is pretty bad.

Nothing in my habits have changed. Drink plenty of water. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables; Exercising daily. But nothing is happening.

Please help me go!

Ideally, without taking something to make me sit on the toilet half the day!