To think dulcolax are the work of the devil?

@Ouchfuckingouchmyarse

Details since taking it please 🤣

You poor thing, they are awful aren't they.

Has it worked though?

Hope it eases soon.

Really wish I'd found this thread before 9pm last night 😭. Had a GA about 6 weeks ago and had constipation issues on and off since. Bought some Dulcolax a fortnight ago but decided to wait to see if things sorted themselves out first. Still been feeling quite heavy in my lower belly so figured I'd take one last night as I'm at home all day today.

It hurts! So far its not been quite as violent as some of the experiences on this thread, but my insides feel like they're twisting around and I feel quite queasy. Very unpleasant. Hoping this is the worst of it!

Moral of the story: always check Mumsnet rather than the Boots reviews!

I've tried fybogel before, but the consistency makes me gag. I couldn't even get it down 🤮*
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I used to know someone who would make up a cup of fybogel and wait till it was all thick and jellified and slurp it off a spoon like she was shoving down a bowl of jelly. Mind you she also used to mix ribena and milk and museli together and wait till it was a solid clump before eating it. 🤮🤮 Took me ages to work out what it was in the bowl, until I saw her preparing her breakfast one morning.

Yes this happens to me when I take laxatives. I’m on strong pain meds so get bad constipation but I can’t deal with the side effects from the laxatives - one night exactly as you describe - omg it was awful. Never again

My 10 year old takes dulcolax because she has a rare bowel disease.. she is meant to take it every day!! 15ml!!! Luckily i only give her 5ml but there’s been a few times she’s been severely constipated and has had to take 15ml and she is so so sick from it!!! Although it works! (Shes been on all the other laxetives seno, lactulose, movicol), none of them worked and she ended up in Southampton hospital needing an enema and now she’s on dulcolax! She has had an operation on her bowel but she will be on laxetives for life! But it bloody works !

Taking two if you aren't used to them will make you feel like you're in labour!

I love them because I suffer from chronic constipation and these are the only thing I have ever found that will make me "go." Otherwise I just don't.

I love this thread. Just watch the troll hunters don't come along making accusations about trolling older threads 😅

@dragonbreaths

😂

I fainted off the toilet and knocked myself out on the bath, trying to have a post-baby poo. Was lovely for DH to find me unconscious on the floor with knickers around ankles 🤣

I've had very similar to you after taking these. I mean they work, but my God its a horrific way to clear yourself out. I find senokot much more gentle, but they don't always work straight away (might be a day or so later). So not as effective immediately, but no where near as severe in terms of cramps.

I'm sorry I've just laughed far too much at this.

Much arse sympathy to all.

Maybe you took too many… I would just take 1 in future lol powerful stuff!

Update
It took 36 hours for the nightmare to end. Trying to walk dogs when you have the shits is no mean feat.
Never ever again will I take 2 .probably not even one tablet!

You have been warned ⚠️ 😆

I had all of that. Almost identical. I have the digestion of an ox, never a problem, I sit down to go every morning, easily.

Both times after a hospital operation, GA which is well known for constipation. I took that tablets for days. Nothing. I was in so much discomfort. Took 2. Then I had what you describe. I actually hurt myself more, strained myself, because of the diarrhoea, on the toilet itself. Felt bad for days.

Sorry Carolefuckingbaskin I cant stop laughing.
I swear by Dulcolax,1 take ONE every other day and they take a good 8 - 10 hours to work. I have no fear of pebbledashing the loo or anywhere else.

How's it going @CaroleFuckingBaskin

Sorry, but

Well....I like a fool took 2 yesterday about 5pm. At 9pm I had my first poo. Not too bad, and off I went to bed. 45 mins ago I woke to stomach pains and the loudest gurgling stomach. Dashed into the toilet and my god the explosion. I was shaking with the rectal fire that followed. Tiny steps back to bed. 5 mins later raced to the toilet again, pure liquid acid. Arse cream patted on gently. Came straight on here to do some research, and as I started to read the thread I was howling with laughter at everyone's experience, and nearly shit the bed. The cat litter post had me in stitches and straight back on the bog. Thank god for mn though, put my mind at ease as I thought I was going to be found dead in a pool of shit.
I hope this is over by morning. I am a dog walker and out for 2 hours at a time. This does not bode well.

OMFG ! The same thing happened to me after taking dulcolax back a few years ago ended up in A&E it was awful

they are the work of Satan for sure

I used the to have to take 6 biscodyl to get anything moving
nowadays picolax brutal

With colonoscopies they give you something called picolax- they are really strong!

I just came across this as I’ve experienced this too and I often think now whe I use them I don’t think I want another baby cos of this cos I legit think it’s same feeling. I always describe my daughter being born like taking a laxative 😂😂😂😂

Must be something in the water!

I was feeling really shitty 🤣 and thankfully found a MN thread that said no to the dulcolax. Sent DP to get the lactolose and that alongside some abdominal massaging and a hot water bottle overnight has really eased everything along and got rid of the stomach pains. I don’t think it’s cleared me out 100% so going to have another go tomorrow.

I never trust anything that says 'gentle relief'

Because half the time their version of gentle makes a teddy bear look like 5 nights at Freddies