Any sure-fire constipation-reversal tips please?? [blush]

[emeraldgirl1]

I've tried and am continuing to try: espresso coffee, avocados, kiwi fruit, bran flakes, orange juice. It's still not resolving (at least not properly IYSWIM again!!) Any other foods etc I could try before I have to resort to Senokot? Would rather resolve it naturally if poss!!

aubergine
crieky yes

Fig rolls
Porridge

those delicious Agen prunes from marks
SO SWEET

aubergine... interesting!!! I will try it, though it occurs to me that I have also tried curry (on Sat) and had a lot of aubergine then which didn't seem to help much... But thank u!! Fig rolls - perfect suggestion :)

Oooh, yes, I know the prunes you mean dogsby - they are very nice

bastards are fattenind though too - so good thing are lxzative

BeerTricks I have tried pumpkin seed but not linseed - will try linseed tomorrow. Do pumpkin seeds help at all do you know? If so will go and eat some more now!

prune juice
but go easy at first, results can be dramatic!......

Really, if you've tried all that already, I'd just reach for the lactulose. Or prune juice. Don't suffer needlessly, OP!

how long is it since you've been? Would a suppository have better results? Go see a chemist, they'll have heard it all before

Linseeds - oh, yes.

Imnotaslimjim - without being too graphic (i hope) - its' not that I haven't 'been' it's that my usual cheerful one or two movements a day have become much less - er - effective. incomplete movements, I suppose you'd call it. not nothing just much smaller and more difficult to pass

Go into a bookshop and start browsing, having first made sure that there is a public loo in staggering distance.

If you're anything like me, it's positively Pavlovian...

prune juice or cranberry juice work on my son.... very quickly.

For babies, the old remedy is 1 teaspoon of demerara sugar in 2 fl oz of water (and it works!). I guess for adults you'd increase that, but by how much I daren't hazard a guess.

The way it works is to draw water into the colon to soften the stool, rather than making you go which is what senokot does (which can also be painful if you don't combine it with some form of stool softener)

Good luck!

Linseed on cereal usually effective here, as is browsing around bookshops.

But why bookshops? Anyway, glad I'm not the only one.

Whatever you use you need to keep it going for a week or so, as it takes time for everything to get back to working as it should. Proper old fashioned lemonade is good - lemon juice, brown sugar and water.

lovecat, me too :) how can THAT be explained I wonder??

otherwise another vote for linseeds and less what

fig rolls/liquorice/ grapes and a peg for the nose !!

Fresh Figs
Patience

Hi.

Linseed is really good for constipation but you must make sure you drink extra water when taking it as otherwise it can just make you more constipated. Also make sure you chew the seeds or preferably get ground linseed as the whole ones just pass through your body.

dried apricots work for me and as cat says, plenty of water.

sweet potato mash works on babies so could work for you too! Good luck. Syrup of figs is a good old fashioned remedy which works and it's very natural