What does everyon use for Constipation

epre361706
on 1/23/15 4:24 am

RNY on 01/09/15

It's been 5 days since my last small BM. I started purree/soft food today and had 1/2 scrambed egg and now feel like I need to have a BM. Just wondering what everyone takes in times like this. Thank you in advace.

phibbmom
on 1/23/15 4:39 am

My doc gave me a prescription for stool softener. He also told me I could use Miralax.

High: 295 Pre-surgery: 267 Current: 142 RNY: 10/7/14

molly3613
on 1/23/15 7:19 am - TX

RNY on 01/24/13

Miralax for medium constipation and if I feel I really need a push I drink a cup of Smooth Move Senna tea. That stuff works for me. I take three Senokot natural vegetable laxative pills every night and go every morning by 7:00 or so. But if, for some reason, that fails I go to the Mirilax then the tea.

STB
on 1/23/15 8:05 am

RNY on 07/21/14

you probably can't do pills yet. I was told 1 - 1 and 1/2 capfuls of miralax and it works for me.

SHARON

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 1/23/15 8:36 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

If you just NOW stars soft foods, you really don't have enough solid matter built up iin order to HAVE a bowel movement, so it is very unlikely that you are constipated.

For future reference, though, you are much better off avoiding the constipation than dealing with it once you have it. Benefiber twice a day (completely tasteless and flavorless) kept me from having problems.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

poet_kelly
on 1/23/15 9:29 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Miralax.

Kelly

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