To ask for emergency pooing advice

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I've just had a slightly panicked message from a friend (no idea why she's asking me but I guess I'm flattered she's thought of me as someone who could possibly help in a crisis) saying that the medicine she's been prescribed has made her poo really hard and she's in agony trying to pass it. She's 9 weeks pregnant. Is there anything she can do in the short-term, as in right now? I said I'd ask and get back to her asap! Sorry for the poo subject! And sorry for posting in AIBU, I'm just hoping for some quick responses!

Prunes?

Lactulose?

How soon do those work please?

Whole packet of sugar free polos

Sit on loo with feet on a box or something. Google pooping positions. Squatting like that is the best position to get a monster poop out. Been there Also if she can get her to push around her butt hole. Sort of like squeezing a spot. Just jiggles everything about a bit and forces it out.

Oh and get her to get some lactulose from her gp or midwife.

Drink as much water as she can. Eat some fibre - fruit or Weetabix.

Send someone to the chemist for some lactulose.

Several glasses of prune juice works very quickly

Glycerin suppository. From a chemist. Will work in about 15 mins.

Glycerin suppositories will make a hard painful poo lodged in the rectum much more comfortable to pass.

Anything taken by mouth either takes time (a day or two) or hurts (cramp/wind and or still very hard stool to pass).

Also pooing in warm bath water helps, as does Vaseline around the anus.

I do know a lot about constipation, don't I?

Rock back and forth with her knees up on something and breathing in and out slowly! Whilst on the toilet obviously

Whole packet of sugar free marshmallows

Cup of coffee, normally does the trick

Depending where it is, putting a thumb in her vagina and pushing it out can work. I've had to do this a few times when pregnant. I actually had a bleed from straining too hard prior to that.

Thank you, I'm firing these suggestions off to her via whatsapp!

Big bag of dates and prunes while sat in a warm bath. Took an hour for it to work on ds.

Gloves on push then manually evacuate

Get into a hot bath, the water will help. I did this for my first bowel movement after I gave birth. It's a bit disgusting but it worked!

Glycerine suppositories. Given to me in hospital after abdominal surgery. They don't upset your stomach and work within half an hour or so.

Black Coffee, liquorice, high fibre cereal, chewing a pack of gum? I'm personally dairy intolerant, if I eat enough cheese within an hour nothing much survives my gut. I feel for her, been constipated my whole current pregnancy.

Oh and tell her to squat, knees up on the loo - use a stool or similar to raise her feet.

Usually vegetables with skin on (onion tomatoes and peppers etc) go right through me, especially if raw.
Pregnancy constipation is like no other though. Tried everything and could only squeeze out some feeble rabbit's tods. In the week after giving birth I was on the bog much as nearly 9 months of poo finally emerged. It probably weighed more than the baby.

Eat a bag of prunes. Seriously. 200g of those bad boys will have her shitting by the 10 o'clock news x

Glycerin suppositories, Movicol or Lactulose and a coffee

Deal with it the way an engineer would - work it out with a pencil

Glycerine suppository and anything containing a reasonable quantity of sorbitol. It's a sugar substitute that makes you go.
Lots and lots of water to drink.

Yeah I think the pregnancy constipation has been made worse by medication for hyperemesis

Thanks I'm passing all this on to her