Constipated

[Thunderrose 3]

When I saw my doctor at my one month I complained about Constipation, too. I told him I felt so stopped up that if I had a good bowel movement I'd lose 5 pounds. I had been taking laxatives occasionally. He told me to stop that and to take a stool softener twice a day (recommended Colace) and to add Fiber to my diet (found some good Fiber Gummy chews and started eating more fruit). He said when I got normal, drop one of the stool softeners.

It's worked like a charm -- even better than the laxatives.

My surgeon forbids gummys of any kind. I would add those dissolvable fiber products to my smoothy.

[phatphotog 61]

I have had this issue but not too severely. Something unexpected that helped was when I was sick last week, I drank hot tea for my throat. Every single time I drank it, 20 minutes later I had to "go." haven't seen this mentioned yet so just wanted to throw it out there. Miralax helped also. I'm 6 weeks post op.