to just want a STRAIGHT ANSWER so I can stop worrying about Movicol in pg?

[emeraldgirl1]

I am getting totally conflicting advice and getting more and more worried and in a state.

I was diagnosed with slow-transit constipation last year which basically means I have very little peristalsis in my colon (nerve endings are 'faulty' IYSWIM). The ONLY thing that works for me is Movicol - I spent almost a year prior to diagnosis trying everything else, from prunes to bran to exercise to water to vegetables... also tried lactulose, Fybogel etc. Movicol was and is the only thing that makes my colon function. My gastroenterologist put me on a regime of Movicol twice a day and lactulose four times a day which worked fine until I got pregnant.

I am now almost 9 weeks and that regime is barely working any more. I have had to increase the movicol to 3 times a day and I am only just barely managing to keep 'moving' on that.

I knew movicol is 'not advised' during pregnancy but I really have no choice. But I had hoped I might be able to cut it down at some point, maybe to just once a day, but now that the hormones are kicking in, as I say, I am on 3 a day.

Gastro (who doesn't seem even remotely concerned about use of movicol in pregnancy which should reassure me but doesn't because he is quite gung-ho and I don't think knows anything about pregnancy stuff) is unconcerned about the movicol... Midwife is VERY concerned about the movicol and says she never recommends it. She did understand when I explained that this is a long-standing problem and that movicol is my only solution, but still pulled faces and said we'd have to keep an eye on it. I stupidly didn't ask her WHAT the problem with movicol is and now am imagining terrible damage being done to the baby and don't know what to do.

GP is vague and just says 'we'll keep an eye on it' - am not sure what that is meant to mean!!!

Does ANYONE have any advice about this, whether because they used Movicol in pregnancy or whether they have any medical knowledge? My impression was that movicol is not advised as a regular thing but if mother's health requires it then it is OK - but I am just so worried that in the amounts I am having to use atm I am harming the developing embryo in some way :(

Hello
I was extremely happy to see your post. You are just describing my case . No one would never understand what we are going through although it might be something to live with for the rest of our life
I am 4 week pg and on Movicol . Please tell me . Did it affect your pregnancy and hows your child? Any affect on him/her?
Waiting for your kind response

I Hello
I was extremely happy to see your post. You are just describing my case . No one would never understand what we are going through although it might be something to live with for the rest of our life
I am 4 week pg and on Movicol . Please tell me . Did it affect your pregnancy and hows your child? Any affect on him/her?
Waiting for your kind response

Hello,

I appreciate it’s an old thread, but was wondering if you or anyone else would who’s been taking movicol in pregnancy could tell me
if it affected their pregnancy/ baby at all?
thanks so much
Anna

Movicol is fine during pregnancy. It's not really absorbed from the bowel

Thanks for your reply.

GP also said it’s fine and midwife didn’t say otherwise either, but have been still a bit worried although info I found also say it’s not absorbed in the bloodstream and that explosure is negligable. I have IBS and have been on maintainance dose for years now. Currently 9 weeks pregnant.