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I finally found a solution to 17 years of constipation

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Caybee
Caybee

This isn't a question but I just wanted to share this for anybody that it might help because it truly changed my life. I've had chronic constipation since I was 3 years old. When I was 3, I was molested, and (I was told by my doctor but I'm still not sure how the two are connected) I began holding my poop. I would only hold it for a few days when I was younger, but it became a habit, and by the time I was 10 years old, I could hold it for about 3 months. Some people say that's not physically possible, but trust me it is! My body began to work in a cycle. I would poop, then I would not poop again for 2 weeks, then I would become constipated and hold my poop in for 2 weeks, and then finally I would let one out the size of a softball. This often tore my rectum and cause hemhorroids. When I was about 15 years old, I finally began to realize how serious it was that I only pooped about once a month. So I tried to change it. But by then my body was so adapted to the cycle that nothing I did ever changed anything. I had already taken every type of stool sofener ever, and eventually even enemas stopped working for me. Constipation was literally controlling my life. I had no friends anymore because I was too uncomfortable to go out and do anything, and I often missed weeks of school at a time because I could not move or I would be in so much pain. Over my life I had been in the hospital a few times and they gave me an enema and stool softeners and discharged me. The problem always came back. I suffered with this problem all the way through my junior year of high school. I would come home at 17 years old my would be crying and searching the Internet for anything that could help me. Doctors didn't even know what to do anymore. One day, when I was 17 years old, my mom took me to the hospital because I had not pooped in about 2 months and I felt like I was dying. They gave me an x Ray and told me that I was completely impacted. No enemas or stool softener a could fix it, I was going to need surgery. I was transferred as to Neumors children's hospital as an emergency patient and placed in the icu for a surgery the next morning. Then my doctor decided that a surgery should be the last option. They gave me enemas and had me drink 2 gallons of mural ax in one night. It made me have to poop so bad but I couldn't. So here I was, a 17 year old girl in the icu on tons of pain medicine, crying and leaking poop all over the bed and floor, while my mom was in the same room. Not a pretty picture, I know. I was in so much pain and so depressed in the icu for four days before they finally did the surgery. I was put under anesthesia and when I woke up I felt great. They had manually removed all the stool from my body. I was told to take miralax twice a day and a stimulant laxative every morning. Doctors advise against taking these regularly, but in my case it was necessary. I was also put on Zoloft, for anxiety. I'm not 18 years old and I have not had any problems with constipation for almost a year. I've had this problem all my life and I honestly thought nothing would ever work for me. I thought I would never get married or have kids, I would be a virgin my whole life. But my entire life has been turned around in such an amazing way. For any moms out there desperately looking for a cure to their kid's constipation, this may not work for everybody, but it sure as hell did wonders for me. Fist you need to get ALL of the stool out so that you can completely start over. I had this done in a hospital, but you can do a simple intestinal clean out, just find one online. Then I took a cap of miralax every morning. When I got home from school, I took a stimulant laxative to give me the urge to poop. If you have done the clean out and taken the miralax, it should be almost diarrhea and it would come out easily. Continue this for a few months until your body get used to NOT holding poop anymore. And if you hold your poop, you may want to consider an antianxiety medication to relax you. The Zoloft did really help me a lot. I'm currently still taking Zoloft, but no stool softeners. And I haven't had a problem in almost a year. Sorry for all the nasty details and everything that was TMI, but it's worth it if it helps ANYBODY because nobody truly knows wheat this is like until they experience it.

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  • mayrose93
    mayrose93 Caybee

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    I know this post was 2 years ago and I hope that you're doing way better than before. I too have been suffering from constipation since a very young age and I am now 21. Just a few days ago I had to be hospitalized from the severe pain and nausea I had. I also suffer from anxiety which makes everything way worse. I hate going to hospitals because doctors do not take constipation seriously, but that day I couldn't take it anymore and begged my parents to take me to the closest hospital. I went, expecting to atleast get a colonoscopy done to see what is going on inside of me since no laxatives work on me. Doctors would come in and out, pressing on my stomach which kept making my pains even worse just to tell me that I was full of stool. As if I didn't already know that. Unfortunately, the only good thing that came out of that trip to the hospital was the morphine they gave me for the pain and the medication they gave me for my nausea. An inexperienced doctor who felt like she knew everything gave me an enema. I went to the bathroom and (sorry for the detail) I had very watery stool. Afterwards, I still felt pain and nausea but she thought it was okay for me to go home because atleast something came out of me right? Wrong. Two days after I came home, I felt a twisting pain again. I had been drinking 17g of Miralax and 2 Senna pills before bedtime. I tried going but nothing would come out. I eat healthily because I suffer from GERD also. I'm tired and super depressed of going through this everyday. I wish to go normally but I have no idea what to do. Even if I could get an colonoscopy, I have no insurance so I would have to pay for it which is impossible because colonoscopies are expensive.

    • david56772
      david56772 mayrose93

      Posted

      I totally sympathise with your situation. I am 51 years old and have been constipated all my life. The doctors I have visited could not seem to care less and don't take the problem seriously. All they do is send me home with laxatives that don't work. About 6 months ago I was in absolute agony because I hadn't opened my bowels for three weeks. Had to almost beg to get an enema which thankfully worked. Its embarrassing enough to have to go to the doctor with that problem but its not good when you end up be belittled or ignored.

  • Thejudy68
    Thejudy68 Caybee

    Posted

    Thanks for sharing. I completely understand . So many people seem to have this problem anymore ?! I wonder Why?

    I started taking the Miralax a few weeks ago but at night. Then I only take a laxative once a week but I always feel tired and nauseous the day after and usually have to stay home because of it. I was wondering what kind if laxative you take ? Maybe I am using the wrong kind ? Thanks again and I am Glad that your problem is gone !

    • Thejudy68
      Thejudy68

      Posted

      I do the same thing and I also feel bad the day after a laxative!? It's still 100% better then when I couldn't go at all. I have to take 3 relax pills once a week. Nothing else has worked ?! I feel sorry for everyone that has this problem. I have had upper and lower GI's and they say everything is ok ?! All my dr. said is that a lot of people have the same problem and that it will only get Worse the older I get ?! Isn't that great ? No solutions, etc., just that one comment !

  • zoe16033
    zoe16033 Caybee

    Posted

    I am 16 now and I am going through almost the exact same thing. I have been going through this since I was 3, went to the hospital for 11 days when I was 8 and I was totally cleaned out (I was totally impacted) they said if I came back for the same reason I would need surgery and I’m terrified that that will happen.   Every 2 months I get so constipated again that I start to hold it because I know it will hurt sooo badly when I do go.  I stay home from school so that I can try and do a miralax cleanse but I think taking too much miralax doesn’t help. I don’t know what to do now. What tips can you give me? Anything will help. 
  • mark05288
    mark05288 Caybee

    Posted

    Dearest Caybee,

    Let me start with thanking you for your brave story. Big virtual hug from me to you for sharing the cure too. 

    I want to run my situation with you, which is similar in terms of the health issue. I have seen 8 consultants, nothing really works. It's almost like system is not use to working properly, I feel very full all the time and feels like i am not emptying my bowl. I have tried sena(no longers works), Dulcolax(does help me to empty 60% of my borwel), movicol(makes me sick does not work).

    I have tried Dicoctyl which is Docustate sodium(again did not work). 

    I am a single parent of 1 year old, my gf left me and child as she said she does not want child and wants to give for adoption, i could not let me child go hence i am only carer and i worl full time.  Life is hard and constipation is killing me.

    Should i try mirmax? Do you think it will help? There is issues of bowels getting use to medication and becoming lazy, but if i dont take it, i cannot fucntion. Do let me know if i can take anything that might help.

    Anyone else who can help let me know. Consultant has given me linaclotide but i heard it is too strong and if i take it, i will have to take it for rest of my life.

  • LMOO
    LMOO Caybee

    Posted

    Oh my...this sounds so familiar. My daughter is 15.5 years and has been thru all of this, except the molestation. Shehashad bio-something feedback testing, bowel retraining and all kinds of others, but refused to keep up with it all. She ends up right back at square one, extreme constipation and then a uti to follow, antibiotics, laxitives and the circle continues...i am praying she finally comes to the realization and acceptance of her own self-care as you have.
  • not_saying_name
    not_saying_name Caybee

    Posted

    I have found the answer, I have the same problem as you too, I never really paid attention to how much I used to go to the bathroom, I believe it was about 1 time maximum or 2 times a month, then I lost 30kg, I didn't go to the bathroom for 2 months and extra fibre and even natural laxative pills didn't have an effect. I went to the doctor and they said nothing was wrong with me. So I learned green tea can help. IT DID NOT WORK. I then found a tea, that worked, it is all natural and makes you go to the bathroom, 10 hours after drinking it,  I have been using it for the past 7 months and it has never failed. The name of the tea is Oyama Slim tea. I have tried every other tea, this is the only one that works by the way

  • 2017
    2017 Caybee

    Posted

    Hello everyone,

    This is such a horrible situation in someone's life.

    I have been suffering of constipation since 3years old and now i am 35years old. I have tried all and even enema or colo but nothing work. I am still suffering of constipation. Fed up.

    I wonder if i can be normal one day anf be pregnant.

    Tired please help!!!

    • gary21203
      gary21203 2017

      Posted

      Please see my text below about combining Dulcolax and Miralax. 
  • gary21203
    gary21203 Caybee

    Posted

    Me too. I had chronic constipation, which after decades, they finally call it IBS-C. I would get angry and want to scream at the doctors for not able to help. They said it was all in my mind! They did say I have a loop in my colon. Nevertheless, nothing worked until two years ago, in 2016, after having a face lift when my pharmacist told me to combine Dulcolax and Miralax. Just like you, I had been on miralax for years from my doctor, but that would not always work. Now, everything is great, and I am no longer angry from the inability to go. The great part is both combined and taken everyday are not dangerous to my health. They completely clean out my colon every morning!  It took a pharmacist rather than a PH.D. MD to help me, as usual. :-) 
    • gary21203
      gary21203

      Posted

      One full cap of Miralax, and three Dulcolax pills. It works GREAT! 
    • hank1953
      hank1953 gary21203

      Posted

      When do you this ? Are you taking both at the same time ? Thanks. Hank
  • melissa24363
    melissa24363 Caybee

    Posted

    I'm sorry you had to go thru this. I really know how you feel. I'm is a little different I pass gas and feel like a movement nope just gas. This is so frustrating. Have tried all kinds of laxatives that are out there. I have been on Miralax for a week now and nothing. I feel like I'm pregnant and I'm not I believe it has been a little over 2weeks since I have had a good movement. If I do pass any it is like a nickle size and that is it. Anyone know something I can try?? I already said if no relief by in morning I have to go to ER

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