Please give me your industrial strength remedies for constipation

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I’m weaning off cocodamol after years and my constipation is just dreadful. I need to go several tunes a day and when I try it’s just tiny malteser size bits! Sorry tmi. Anyway, please give me your best advice as to how to have a good clear out!?

2 dulcolax and a litre of apple juice. Don't go out.

Pretty much this. And don't be fooled into thinking it is just wind, it won't be.

An orange eaten on an empty stomach last thing at night or a strong coffee first thing . Again on an empty stomach.

A pint of strong coffee.
Homemade veg and lentil soup.
Homemade apple sauce.

Failing all that, a full pineapple.

Coffee.
Also I find eating soup everyday helps to get you back to normal.

Prune juice is fab! Also Califig ( from supermarkets). I find red meat makes me go pretty well the next day so have a nice big steak. I feel your pain as I really suffer with constipation.

Ooh so many replies, thank you! And lots of ideas to try. I have a box of movicol in the cupboard that was prescribed to ds a while ago, maybe I’ll have some of that, and I’ll order some suppositories to come tomorrow. And throw some prune juice in there an’ all

Am I alright to take a laxative while on meditation?

Glycerine suppositories are not that great tbh ,I have a child with chronic constipation , he has bisocodyl suppositories they.are a softener and also give you the urge to go they generally work really well with him.

I also say glycerine suppositories, they work within the hour by drawing water into your bowel and making a nice bit of liquid for hard stool to slip out with. Never failed me

Greenish tinge bananas. Not too green otherwise very unripe. I always remember green for go brown for no. Meaning brown bananas constipate you.
Prunes or apricots
Fresh fruit salad

@thefuckfacewhisperer any particular brand?

You can just pick up the glycerine ones off the shelf in boots or somewhere.

I just use Boots own make

Overdose of sugar free sweets

Castor Oil.

Be warned, it works quickly.

Water melon and loads of water.

buckets of water
buckets of caffeine
5km run
buckets of water
lots of high fibre food (esp. fruit & veg)
another 5km run...

Infamously, Haribo sugar free gummy bears.

Diabetic sweets or chocolate. Trust me, they work. Just don't go far from the toilet or go out, and you'll be fine

As a preventative, you need to eat more fibre but that won't help initially.

Very definitely glycerin suppositories to help the bottom end - otherwise when you clear what's sitting up there you will have an explosion!

Coffee and water!

Fruittella sugar free gums- gave me diarrhoea to the point where I shit myself 😳

@lottielady hahaha!

After birth I suffered terribly from constipation, had all the usual remedies from the doctors.
The only thing that worked for me was a diet tea called ‘slimmatee’ from Holland and Barratts won’t go into it here but let’s just say it was extremely effective